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Field Medicine for a Survival Situation

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »

A reader e-mailed to ask if I could suggest some medicinal wild plants that could be used fresh in the field, without much preparation, in an emergency survival situation. Usually I write about plants that take some amount of time to turn into medicine, so I thought this was a good idea. Here are seven [...]

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Mugwort: The Great Inverter

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , on August 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is famously used for three things: protecting travelers, inverting breech babies, and causing intense lucid dreams that can later be recalled with ease. These vivid nocturnal adventures sometimes take unpleasant forms, which is why mugwort merchants often include these words on the packaging: “Warning, may cause nightmares.” Mugwort is dried and smoked [...]

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