Having a backup plan is essential and this medicinal plant replaces many staples in the first aid kit in addition to some other sanitary necessities. Commonly used to create textural interest in border gardens, Wooly Lamb’s Ear, is an adaptable perennial that is quick to spread to other areas of the homestead. Each silvery-green leaf is covered in a light fuzz that is extremely soft. Pale violet flowers bloom late in the season, though they hold little to no medicinal value; however, they do make a nice addition to floral arrangements.
Starting your own patch of wooly lamb’s ear is relatively easy. This perennial can be started from seed in seedling pots or small containers. They can continue to grow to maturity in containers, provided they are thinned out regularly and are stored in a sheltered area over the harshest winter month. In a garden or raised bed, plant seedlings 12 inches apart in a partly shady spot. Lamb’s ear prefers six to eight hours of sunlight. It is hardy, tolerating most well-drained soils but is prone to wilting in the hottest days of the year. Equally important, the plant is
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Plucked from the ground, leaves can be used immediately or stored in the refrigerator or another cool container for a few days at the most. At the end of the growing season leaves can be dried for use in the winter months.
The soft, fuzzy leaf of the wooly lamb’s ear plant is an excellent substitute for a bandage. Hunters and soldiers refer to the plant as woundwort and have used the leaves as field dressing for years with great success. Each leaf is antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory thus reducing the risk of infection setting in. Furthermore, it readily absorbs blood and assists in the blood clotting process. It is also safe to use on children and most livestock. These leaves are often used in conjunction with comfrey leaves to dress
Colin G. Calloway’s The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America is a well researched, effective, and a creative story of North America during the year 1763. Calloway narrates his way through the year 1763 and talks about the effects on American History as a result of the Treaty of Paris 1763. The story illuminates the themes of racism, gender, and republicanism. Calloway has interesting techniques to approach important topics to show the topics significance. His book is very well researched and he cites a lot of different reliable sources to help make understanding the time period easier.
Indian Horse is a novel by Richard Wagamese that beautifully explores the idea of family, and what it means to have people around you that make you feel at home. The reader is bombarded with an overwhelming sense of family and betrayal in the first few pages of the novel. As Richard Wagamese continues to write, one is able to see how safe Saul Indian Horse felt with his biological family, and he also shows how lost he felt without their love when he was taken to the Residential School. The school he was brought to was drained of all consensual love the moment it was open, and continued to fill the children with horrible feelings the entire time they were there. Indian Horse was unable to really feel as though he still had family while he was in the
Rabbit tobacco is also known as lasting, everlasting, sweet balsam, white balsam, feather-weed, and sweet cudweed. Its scientific name is Gaphalium obtusifolium. These annual herbs reach a height of 1 to 3 feet and have erect stems with brown, shriveled leaves persisting into winter and stems covered with felt-like hairs in summer. The leaves are 1 to 3 inches long, and alternate. The flowers, minute in whitish heads, appear in late summer to fall. Fields, pastures, and disturbed areas are the sites of this common native plant of the eastern United States. The Cherokee named it rabbit tobacco because they believe it was the rabbit who took attended the plant.
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
The poem “Black Lamb” is about a person who has experienced the horrible reality of being raped. It creates a person who is extremely dissatisfied with herself. She feels that everyone thinks she is different or bad. Her life has been turned completely around in such a short time. Trying to live a normal life has been destroyed by an evil act she had no control over.
useful in the relief of mild to moderate pain. It is also used as a cough remedy
Comparing Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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There are two kinds of people in the world, lambs and tigers. The lambs are the young and inexperienced, they have no greater knowledge of the harmful world around them, nor do they obtain any knowledge of true evil. Just like the animal itself, cute, calm, peaceful and non-violent. The tigers on the other hand have witness and experienced the horrors of the world around them; they have lived through horrors and hardships that have caused them to evolve from lambs to tigers. The times are tough in the time period of William Blake. In these two groups, the people are classified by either a lamb or a tiger. William Blake wrote two poems in his life; one called “The Lamb” the other call, “The Tyger.” These two poems were classified into two groups, one call the Songs of Innocence, the other call the Songs of Experience. The poem, “The Lamb” fits into Songs of Innocence due it is simplistic views and easy language, while the poem, “The Tyger” fits into Songs of Experience due to is tone and fear.
Chamomile is one of the most ancient medicinal herbs used today. It is a member of the Asteraceae/Compositae family and comes in two different forms- German Chamomile and Roman Chamomile. Historically, the origin of the name Chamomile can from the Greeks who first noted that the smell resembled that of apples and therefore named it “ground apples.” What gives Chamomile its medicinal properties are its dried flowers, which contain terpenoids and flavonoids (lipids and pigment of the plant). In addition, oils of Chamomile are also used in cosmetics and aromatherapy with a distinct smell. Some traditional uses of Chamomile include: anti-spasmodic and sedative use for gastric disturbances and rheumatoid arthritis, treating parasitic worm infections, a skin wash for ulcers or any skin conditions, and lastly having anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties to treat certain health conditions such as colic, cystitis, fever, flatulence and vomiting.
The plant I have chosen to do is a Geranium which is a dicotyledonous plant found in the dry and hot regions of South Africa.
Native to what is now modern day Europe, the earliest discovery of Humulus Lupulus recorded goes back as far as 75 to 80 AD. Although discovery was around this time frame, the use of hops for anything important was put off many decades. Up until this point the hop plant was just observed at it grew in the wild. According to author Loftus, to our understanding, the earl...
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“The Lamb” starts with an innocent directness and a natural world with no visible signs of adults. William Blake addresses the lamb itself, saying it is pure, innocent and it is associated with Christ. William Blake describes the lamb exactly as he sees it. The lamb has been blessed with soft and warm
Blake is saying to the lamb, I'll tell you who made you, and it is