permaculture

[Nick Routledge <fellowservant@yahoo.com>]

> It's a true geranium, a cranesbill. Easily removed? That just gives new
> space for its million seedlings! I've seen the carpet effect in
> second-growth forest too. It can render an essential oil, I hear. Once I
> tried to flame-weed a gravel path it was covering. The stuff is
> vegetable
> asbestos! And it loves mulch gardening. Que teng cuidado wid dat stuff!
> 
> Rick

Rather quietly, the deep herbalism crowd have been taking texts authored
by Eclectic physicians during the great flowering of botanical medicine
Stateside (durig the mid 1800's thru early 1900's) and putting them on the
web. 

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/main.html

is worth a looksee. I look up cranesbill in Kings, the first text linked,
and find:

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/kings/geranium.html

Michael Moore of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine has been
instrumental in making these texts available. His home page is also tasty.

http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/

n.

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