permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Nick Routledge wrote:
> > 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

"deep herbalism crowd" you refer to = Henriette Kress of Finland who did 
_all_ of the
above work in the herbmed website at ibiblio. A magnificent effort.

> 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.
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
> http://calendar.yahoo.com
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture



--
L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech