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The Apothecary's Garden, Revisiting Medicinal Plants

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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Is Foxglove a Hazardous Plant?

I want people to understand all plants are poisonous or have the potential to be poisonous. Foxglove is a relatively dangerous plant if ingested, but there's other plants that do bad things. I had Belladonna in the garden a couple of years ago and when it died, I didn't put it back because of the safety risk. It brings us capolamine which we wear in patches behind our ears for motion sickness. Atropine speeds up your heart rate and also it has high assigning to settle your stomach. But like Belladonna, I just felt it was two poisonous. The commercialization or the sprawl of mankind and closing down on areas where these plants have grown will

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