My major prof. hailed from shroom heaven in the Northwest U.S. so I learned some mycology. If the weather will cooperate this year, there will be some shrooms at weedom.
Re the licenced killing of people..the obverse is the plunging birth rate, which very few people and even fewer Western politicians want to discuss. France is the best performer with a birth rate of 1.7. To simply maintain current population levels the birth rate would have to be nearer 2.1. We will be reliant upon ourselves increasingly so, yes.
Yaaaa, the birth rates took anotherbig step down around COVID due to multiple mechanisms, some of which are pessimism about the future, belief that humans significantly affect the large trends of weather, fear of the responsibility, financial depression, and several medical and infectious causes of reduced fertility.
It's ironic that expensive, useless treatments are offered to people and when they don't work or make everything worse, they offer the kill shot. But don't go near anything else!
About placebo... in a different universe, surely the doctors in the 19th century who realized they were poisoning their patients with mercury and antimony et al, and discovered placebo, would have gladly adopted homeopathics as the first line of therapy for non-acute cases. Placebo healing is 100% without side effects, after all. Only if medicatrix naturae cum placebo fails, go for the harder stuff, is what I am thinking... Alas, in our universe, the docs went to war with the homeopaths, and we all lost out.
This stood out "do they have a duty to shorten the lives of people?" — No moral conduct about certain kinds of healing or killing... Will we regain or establish for the first time ever confidence in the so-called healing profession? I vote yes for shrooms and to make space for information that has been actively suppressed — lies we've been told — that harm too many. I know this up close. Thank you,. I'm glad I found you via your comment on my note. Thank you!
I truly think a great awakening is beginning, just from opening up new ways for people to speak freely with each other, and great improvements will happen all over the world.
I would like to purchase a book as a "good luck" present to a high school grad who is heading to the Univ of Auckland on a full scholarship to study chemistry. She hails from a home-schooling Christian family who grow a lot of their own organic foods. Would you be able to recommend a good introductory book to pharmacognosy that I can send her as a gift?
Sadly there's not much new coming out of the U.S. and it is not taught as a discrete subject at pharmacy schools here. However the Journal of Natural Products and the American Society of Pharmacognosy are still plugging along.
Some of the classics (such as what I have) are pretty old and probably expensive. The Trease and Evans books from the U.K. are pretty high priced. Last one I know of is 16th ed. from 2009. There are also a few recent text books published in India.
This most recent one from the UK is not incredibly expensive and is probably preferable because the UK has a friendly attitude towards the natural products: Michael Heinrich et. al., Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. If history of pharmacognosy is what you're after, look at some James E. Robbers Pharmacognosy editions, last one being in 1996. A straight natural products chemistry book by Lisa Ganora, called Herbal Constituents is good, but you have to get the bibliography online at her site, I think.
The most reasonable pick for your purposes is probably the Michael Heinrich, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy.
Yes! Please do shrooms!
Yes on mushrooms!
My major prof. hailed from shroom heaven in the Northwest U.S. so I learned some mycology. If the weather will cooperate this year, there will be some shrooms at weedom.
+1 for shrooms!
Re the licenced killing of people..the obverse is the plunging birth rate, which very few people and even fewer Western politicians want to discuss. France is the best performer with a birth rate of 1.7. To simply maintain current population levels the birth rate would have to be nearer 2.1. We will be reliant upon ourselves increasingly so, yes.
Yaaaa, the birth rates took anotherbig step down around COVID due to multiple mechanisms, some of which are pessimism about the future, belief that humans significantly affect the large trends of weather, fear of the responsibility, financial depression, and several medical and infectious causes of reduced fertility.
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It's ironic that expensive, useless treatments are offered to people and when they don't work or make everything worse, they offer the kill shot. But don't go near anything else!
That’s waking everyone up and has them looking for better help
Love this stack! :-)
About placebo... in a different universe, surely the doctors in the 19th century who realized they were poisoning their patients with mercury and antimony et al, and discovered placebo, would have gladly adopted homeopathics as the first line of therapy for non-acute cases. Placebo healing is 100% without side effects, after all. Only if medicatrix naturae cum placebo fails, go for the harder stuff, is what I am thinking... Alas, in our universe, the docs went to war with the homeopaths, and we all lost out.
Agreed. Our allopathic system is last resort,
(and possibly not even that).
Moving everyone away from the natural products was all about the patents, control and $$$.
This stood out "do they have a duty to shorten the lives of people?" — No moral conduct about certain kinds of healing or killing... Will we regain or establish for the first time ever confidence in the so-called healing profession? I vote yes for shrooms and to make space for information that has been actively suppressed — lies we've been told — that harm too many. I know this up close. Thank you,. I'm glad I found you via your comment on my note. Thank you!
ThankYOU!
I truly think a great awakening is beginning, just from opening up new ways for people to speak freely with each other, and great improvements will happen all over the world.
I wish for this.
I would like to purchase a book as a "good luck" present to a high school grad who is heading to the Univ of Auckland on a full scholarship to study chemistry. She hails from a home-schooling Christian family who grow a lot of their own organic foods. Would you be able to recommend a good introductory book to pharmacognosy that I can send her as a gift?
Sadly there's not much new coming out of the U.S. and it is not taught as a discrete subject at pharmacy schools here. However the Journal of Natural Products and the American Society of Pharmacognosy are still plugging along.
Some of the classics (such as what I have) are pretty old and probably expensive. The Trease and Evans books from the U.K. are pretty high priced. Last one I know of is 16th ed. from 2009. There are also a few recent text books published in India.
This most recent one from the UK is not incredibly expensive and is probably preferable because the UK has a friendly attitude towards the natural products: Michael Heinrich et. al., Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. If history of pharmacognosy is what you're after, look at some James E. Robbers Pharmacognosy editions, last one being in 1996. A straight natural products chemistry book by Lisa Ganora, called Herbal Constituents is good, but you have to get the bibliography online at her site, I think.
The most reasonable pick for your purposes is probably the Michael Heinrich, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy.
This is excellent info. Much obliged!
And I found it here, which can be shipped directly to her: https://www.booktopia.com.au/fundamentals-of-pharmacognosy-and-phytotherapy-michael-heinrich/book/9780323834346.html
Thanks again!
Cool! Also glad you could get it at a place other than Amazon. (They need competition, because they're taking over the world).
Reading your posts encouraged me to start an herbalist training program. Thank you for such detailed posts, I love learning and then applying it.
Super glad that you're benefitting. Best wishes for your continued success
I’m anticipating increased opportunities now that we have had some decent precipitation 👍🏼