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    Toddy reacted to Rumi's post in the thread Top Ten Medicinal Plants with Like Like.
    COMFREY - Powdered root (you need alot) can be mixed with plaster of paris and bandage to make a splint fro a broken bone. It will speed...
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    Toddy reacted to _mark_'s post in the thread Top Ten Medicinal Plants with Like Like.
    There are many natural pain killers, hugely effective and important to our ancestors but, alas, now illegal because of their narcotic...
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    Toddy reacted to sandsnakes's post in the thread Top Ten Medicinal Plants with Love Love.
    Comfrey. Also known in some books a knitt-bone or all heal. The root contains a steroid which can be crushed and applied topically as...
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    Toddy reacted to TeeDee's post in the thread Top Ten Medicinal Plants with Like Like.
    Reviewing this. How many of these plants are actually science backed in terms of efficacy and proven studies? as opposed to being more...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread Top Ten Medicinal Plants with Love Love.
    Not sure why I never got involved in this discussion earlier. The reality is that a lot of modern medicine is from plant derived...
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    Toddy replied to the thread RATS!.
    You know that if you mix ordinary bleach and vinegar, or bleach and ammonia, it will create a very toxic liquid which will give off...
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    Toddy replied to the thread Eggs,.
    Normally our eggs are brown, but we did get some white ones a month ago, and the shells were incredibly fragile in comparison. I felt...
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    Toddy reacted to Silverclaws2's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Dunno about anybody else's experience but having used the white shelled eggs I got the sense that the white shells were either thinner...
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    Toddy reacted to Tengu's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    As a child, we got our eggs from the farm up the road; muddy, scruffy, plucked birds (but very free range) They gave mostly white eggs...
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    Toddy reacted to Pattree's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Nope. The darkest brown eggs that I know come from Cuckoo Marans, they are barred in two shades of grey. This hen lays blue eggs.
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    Toddy replied to the thread Burn Gel and Soothing Gel.
    House leeks, Liveforevers, Hen and chickens.....are a much under rated plant. The juice is very gentle on our skins, it's soothing, it's...
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    Toddy reacted to Falstaff's post in the thread Burn Gel and Soothing Gel with Like Like.
    So finally, a use for house leeks. They are a popular recommendation for green roofs but didn't raise any interest for me until maybe...
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    Toddy reacted to Silverclaws2's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    Running a de humidifier as I am now I have got one I am discovering the peculiarity of it feeling cooler despite higher temperatures to...
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    Toddy replied to the thread Burn Gel and Soothing Gel.
    The house leek is pretty hardy too. Mine survives quite happily outdoors all year round....and I think it's as good as the aloe vera is...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread Burn Gel and Soothing Gel with Like Like.
    Another +1 for Aloe Vera - I prefer to use it straight off the plant at home but the tubes (I think say something like 98% Aloe Vera)...
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