In one of the recent passages I read in my “Dorie Woman of the Mountains” series, Dorie said her mother gave her beadwood tea to see if she was in true childbirth labor. The thought was that if the pain went away after drinking the tea, which was a pain reliever, it was not true labor. I’m still wondering about beadwood tea. The Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English has this to say about it: beadwood noun The Chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach), the…
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Medicinal Remedies
“I mentioned in this blog a long time ago that my Appalachian elders doctored everything with moonshine and turpentine! I…
There is a shade of purple inthis flower near summer’s end that makesyou proud to be alive in sucha world,…
“Every year an abundance of jewel weed grows along side our stream. I cut down to about 4 inches of the…
“Thank the good Lord for modern dentistry! When my mom was a little girl she had a relative, Reinhold Hoffman, who…
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In one of my recent videos I discuss jewelweed and its medicinal properties. According to one of my favorite old…
Last week I stogged through the woods down the road to find some yellow root. Yellow root grows along creeks…