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The 21st Century Magazine,
at South Florida's www.miami-dade-online.com.
WilderHerb 's Dandelion
If you have serious medical problems, see a doctor. This herb should be considered a nutritive tonic which aids various systems within the body, due to the type nutrients contained within the herb. Herbs are food additives and not controlled by the FDA. This herb in amounts normally prescribed is, however, considered generally safe by the FDA for otherwise nonnursing or nonpregnant women. Adults taking diuretics should take Dandelion only under consultation with your doctor. If any adverse symptoms arise, like stomach upset or diarrhea, take less or discontinue.
DANDELION
I am Dandelion with sun ray flowers, yellow and bright. .Upon a stem filled with fluid, milky and white. Drops of my sap upon a wart, many times a day, results in the wart simply going away. This is one of the many healings Dandelion achieves, from stems, roots, flowers, and even the leaves.
A gift from the mysterious and powerful Gaia, to those weaving healing herbs into their beliefs. For Gaia, or Mother Earth, is now known to be more than simple bio-geo-chemistry. Oceans and lands, the weather and atmosphere, rocks, trees, birds, animals, and rest of the biosphere, are really parts of a very complex "being". Looked at as a whole, it is planet Earth, you are seeing. Within Gaia's fabric is woven a web, from which all that is living is fed, all that is needed from shelter to bread. and of all the medicine herbs, Gaia has one special gift; it's how I give the whole body such a marvelous lift.
By increasing the amount of urine and bile, the kidneys and gallbladder give, I help the liver become a more efficient sieve. The result is bloodmuch cleaner, more capable of cleaning the body of toxins, waste, and blockages, if you get my meaning.
Problems with excema-like skin and digestion, rheumatism,
gout, and chronic constipation are lessened by clean blood
in circulation.
For a 1,000 years, from healers worldwide, My reputation
grown: has "Official Remedy for Disorders" by 17
Century England, as a favorite diuretic "pee in bed", and in
France, "Teeth of the Lion", I am known. But in America,
they want me dead. A weed, not a healer and not a
nurturing food, as I am viewed by the millions I have fed,
Since time began, in every part of Gaia's web.
Copyright 1999 by Nancy Hopkins and S. Dancer
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