Jackpine Radical Gardening
Herbalists, I have a question.
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I’m so glad that there are others here who enjoy learning about using plants for health. I went on a ramble yesterday to see how things are growing this year and wow, we have quite the crop of little garter snakes! I thought the birds would have hunted them all out but nope, so there is hope. Still no turtles, just a huge snapper shell that must have been exposed for a couple of years. Very big snapper.
Anyway…I have a lot of beautiful opium lettuce that I want to make medicine from. Has anyone here had experience with doing this?
Thanks in advance.
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May 31, 2020 at 8:38 PM #321171
sorry @haikugal
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May 31, 2020 at 8:38 PM #321172
I usually think of lettuce as food, with little in the way of medicinal value. Apparently, Plants for a Future has a higher opinion of it. Here is a link to their entry for prickly lettuce: https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Lactuca+serriola
What is it you want to do with your lettuce?
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May 31, 2020 at 9:03 PM #321184
I need something to help with pain from time to time. I can’t take anything but acetaminophen due to an illness and Tylenol doesn’t touch my pain sometimes. Also it helps with sleep. I’m thinking of trying out a tea (drying the Lactuca virosa) or making it into tincture or resin to use in alcohol. Some people smoke it but I don’t smoke anymore, at all. I use cannabis for sleep aide and pain relief and I am amazed at the crop of lettuce I have out there and it is so fresh and appealing. Just beautiful.
on edit: I should add that in PA if you have a medical marijuana card you can’t get a pain medication prescription. One or the other…authoritarian bullshit.
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May 31, 2020 at 9:13 PM #321188
@gzeush I think there are a couple of varieties. It’s al over the web but I thought maybe someone here has actually used it or harvested and made something from it. Look what’s on eBay.. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=opium+lettuce&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-34002-13078-0&mkcid=2&keyword=opium+lettuce&crlp=_1-1300-0-1-3&MT_ID=&geo_id=&rlsatarget=kwd-77172105486779%3Aloc-190&adpos=&device=c&mktype=&loc=91814&poi=&abcId=&cmpgn=329851882&sitelnk=&adgroupid=1234751710262361&network=s&matchtype=e&msclkid=36316e67f54715a680e030b44860fd11&ul_noapp=true
Next question is if anyone has used Kratom.
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May 31, 2020 at 9:58 PM #321209
If you like I’ll PM you the names of two good forums for Kratom users, and one Facebook group as well.
Avoid the Kratom extracts unless you have major pain and the regular Kratom is too hard to assimilate in the amounts needed. Some people do get addicted to the extracts.
If you have Netflix, here’s a documentary.
https://www.netflix.com/title/81009815
Joe Rogan has done some shows where he talked about Kratom.
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May 31, 2020 at 11:07 PM #321235
Thanks for hooking me up with the documentary and I will send you an IM for the rest. Woohoo…this is great.
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May 31, 2020 at 10:14 PM #321217
Funny enough the best deal on it that I know of comes from an online retailer of Kratom. They sell several kinds of herbs. I use that and their Skullcap, as well as their Kratom.
Full disclosure, they once sent me a free bag of Kratom to review. 🙂
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May 31, 2020 at 11:14 PM #321239
- This is what comes up with a search for Incarvillea Sinensis. I’m a little confused…thanks!
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June 1, 2020 at 1:27 AM #321293
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarvillea_sinensis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26527075/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10514316/
The plant has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as an analgesic and as a treatment for rheumatism. Incarvillateine isolated from Incarvillea sinensis has demonstrated significant analgesic activity when compared to the opiate alkaloid morphine.
This additional data is important.
… the effects of incarvillateine on chronic pain were related to the adenosine system, but not opioid system. These results indicate that incarvillateine is a novel analgesic compound that is effective against inflammatory and neuropathic pain, and that its effects are associated with activation of the adenosine system.
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June 1, 2020 at 1:30 AM #321299
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