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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Datura
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:31:48 -0700

The early women settlers who experienced threatened miscarrage were taught
by the Native Americans to chew a certain small number Datura seeds in
specified intervals.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc Lisenby" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:51 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Datura


> Jim wrote:
>
> "Kids are using Datura as a legal high (drug). It is bought and sold in
> tea bags and police are helpless to do anything about it because it is
> legal."
>
> Me:
>
> I eat Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) leaves and prefer them to most
popular
> cultivated "greens". I can't recommend them because they require proper
> cooking preparation. We ran a few tests in toxicology and unofficially
> determined that the poison is mainly in the roots and mature stems. It
has
> a complicated poison and at the time of our test could not be identified
> exactly.
> A few insects eat the leaves, but I have never seen any insect damage to
the
> stems or roots. I heard/read a rumor that the poison has been reported to
> cause increased production of white blood cells in humans and was
suggested
> as an AIDS chemotherapeutic medication.
> Poke was a common table fare in the "thirties", as was persimmon pudding
and
> "real" yams.
> Thornapple, aka Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) has hallucinogenic
> properties and I've heard that it has been used by the drug nuts for their
> endeavors.
> Doc
> Zone 7/8
>
>
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