botanical parts and medicinal action

[Guest guest]

Thank you both for the leads - I'm looking forward to greening my thumb. A

final observation on this thread is that botanical 'anatomy' (rhizome,

bark, berry, etc) does not seem to elucidate essential action or nature.

Other than the flower or leaf being light, rising in nature and mild, and

that some pharmacies are organized by plant part , the lack of feedback

means I won't pursue the idea in my mind that there may be some correlation

between anatomical part of a plant and its medicinal action. Thank you all. -pz

 

Pamela, I started my shou wu from root cuttings that I ordered from Elixir

Farm

Botanicals, Brixey, MO 65618, 417-261-2393. It will take 3 or more years to

have a bit

to harvest. Needs a lot of shade and a trellis or something to climb on.

The rhizomes

have a very beautiful lustrous plum color skin, warm ivory flesh inside,

and smell a

little like potatoes, fresh out of the earth. I rinsed the dirt off and

dried them a

few days, then sliced and let them dry until chip-like. The deep earthy

aroma filled my

house for weeks.

Frances

wrote:

> Try plantitherbs.com, for a start.

>

>

> On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 01:11 PM, Pamela Zilavy wrote:

>

> I would like to grow some Shou Wu. What was your source for seeds or

seedlings?

> Thank you,

> -pz

>

> > I'd love to try a he shou wu stout, for a start!

> >

> >

> Sounds tantalizing. Shou wu dried in thin slices makes an interesting

> snack. I grew and harvested a small amount. It would work well in stout.

> Frances Gander

[Guest guest]

, Pamela Zilavy <yinyang@i...> wrote:

> Thank you both for the leads - I'm looking forward to greening my

thumb. A

> final observation on this thread is that botanical 'anatomy'

(rhizome,

> bark, berry, etc) does not seem to elucidate essential action or

nature.

> Other than the flower or leaf being light, rising in nature and

mild, and

> that some pharmacies are organized by plant part , the lack of

feedback

> means I won't pursue the idea in my mind that there may be some

correlation

> between anatomical part of a plant and its medicinal action. Thank

you all. -pz

>

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Don't give up!

I remember having read explanations on anatomical plant parts having

different actions in a 900p chinese herbal book (900p translate as

roughly 2000pages in english).

It was divided in floating and sinking when put in water, color, size

of roots and surface/proportions, leaves twigs roots....

I always believed in it and tried to get a feeling of plant parts.

 

Besides there is also another kind of anatomical botany:

Ginger-rhizome-skin has different action than ginger rhizome. Problem

is you dont have western language articles on that profound herbal

topics (yet).

DangGui root-tail has different action (huoxuequyu) than its root-body

(bu xue).

Baibiandou-peel has different action than the whole bean. etc etc etc

etc etc

By comparing the action tendencies of different herbals one gets

a 'feeling' for these anatomical actions.

Only very thick chinese books deal with this matter or master tell

then their pupils.

 

Greetings Tay.