Fun Stuff from the Freak
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- Bio
Hello boys and girls. today's good stuff goes like this.
everyone knows what a dandelion is right? the flower/weed?
well, did ya know that if you feed someone the root, it acts as a natural diuretic. folks used to call it Pee-in-the-bed (for a good reason).
the root is often used to make coffee (and is really quite good). but when ingested raw, it works like ex-lax for your bladder!you can make wine from the flowers (also quite good) and the greens (raw or cooked) are a healthy substitute for lettuce.
none of the plant is dangerous, but if you dont know for SURE what the plant looks like, then dont chance it!!
hope you liked todays plant fact. stay tuned for more in the days to come. =)
- o0o0
you'll either think I'm a freak, or won't believe me... but...
when I was around 13 or so I had a wart on my thumb. I saw in a natural remedies book that dandilion 'milk' would cure it. This is like sap that comes out of the stem when you break it. So every time I saw a dandilion for the next several months I would pick it and put it on the wart. It worked! the wart dissapeared. :D
- mrdobolina0
Biofreak will be getting his own segment on the Revised version of Mister Wizards World.
BioBotanyFreak
- seas_of_rhye0
do you know any other fun stuff about plants Bio?
or do we only get one for the day?
- srvollmer0
Did you know that if you rub a dandelion under your chin and yellow stuff shows up, then you like butter.
It's true!
- Bio0
haha. i never heard that about warts. i will remember that and thanks for letting me know o0o!!
seas_of_rhye, i studied botany for many years growing up. my childhood was spent mostly in the forests of my home. i got tons of random and completely useless shit to share. haha.
i just saw some dandelions outside, so i figured i would share some odd but cool stuff about them. i will post some more junk later. =)
- Bio0
mm. . . i think i may have already explained that peach and cherry pits contain cyanide. dont worry though, the amounts are small enough that if you filled your stomache with pits, you probably would get sick, but not from the cyanide.
also when the leaves of these fruit trees wilt, they produce cyanide. if distilled properly, this can be used to poison someone but my few remaining morals forbid me to tell you how to do that. if you ever meet me in person though, i will tell you. haha. or maybe i shouldnt.
- Mal0
- 4cY0
well, you may tell me, botanyfreak...but I won't accept the drink/coffee you offer me...
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- unknown0
hail 4cy.. god of URL encoding!
when I was a kid I had a wart on my thumb and my mom said she's buy it off me for 5p, sure enough we did the deal while on a car journey... sure enough the wart fell of the next day.. I was totally freaked, I'm suspecting she sneaked on some ointment in my sleep but I still remmeber that really clearly.
- Bio0
mmm. all this talk of warts.
when my dad was a kid, he went to a religious guy and the dude read some bible verses, then spit on his wart and rubbed the spit in. told the demons to come out.
the truth behind that was the saliva. somehow related people cant do this though. so your mom and sister or whatever wouldbnt work. but your girlfriend maybe.
i am not sure exactly what the active agent is, but i always thought that it was interesting.
- JazX0
I couldn't tell what the end was, I thought it was going to 'Fun Stuff from the French' not the Freak. LOL! You know the whole French thing.
- lnu0
I had a wart once. I was always pinching and rubbing and pinching it and one day it came loose, and I just pulled it out! Plop! For two seconds there was a wart-sized hole on my hand but then it completely filled up with blood and I was really bleeding very much and I hear this blood is infectious and there was blood everywhere and I was in the backseet of my grandparents old 2-door volvo and there was no paper tissues!
I'm sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.
- seas_of_rhye0
srvollmer:
actually, that would be a buttercup, not a dandelion. :)
- lifeinsodium0
I had a wart on my foot once upon a time long long time ago - the middle of the sole. It was expanding exponentially and of course hurt like a mutha! The doctors kept trying to kill it by using liquid nitrogen.
I had to get it frozen twice a week. The liquid nitrogen spray hurt way way more than the wart unfortunely. This went on for three month but the wart refused to die. It was now the size of a quarter. I had lost faith in the doctor at the school clinic and asked to see a specialist...
end of part 1.
- seas_of_rhye0
so did you get your girlfriend to spit on it for you?
- lnu0
- lifeinsodium0
Part 2...
At the time of course I didn't know about the spitting thing or I would've asked my girlfriend to do so.
I finally got to see a specialist and she said that it was strange that the liquid nitrogen didn't work. "Must be a tough one", she said. What a dork. She said it'd be best if we tried this acid-something ointment which was not available commercially yet.
Experimental drugs... just my stlye!
I had to go see her once a week and she would plaster the wart with that acid crap. I was not allowed to let water get near the wart for about 3 days and then I could wash it off. There was little progress in the first 2 weeks...
End of part 2.
- seas_of_rhye0
argghh!!
the suspense!
- mrdobolina0
saf, how old were you during this thing?
- lifeinsodium0
Part 3...
The year was two thousand and the season was spring. I used to love to see the trees move with the wind during my walks to the clinic. The weather was perfect. I didn't have a car but the clinic was close to my apartment.
It was a very nice neighborhood. Bio lived in the same apartment complex and I would often stop by when ever I'd hear him play his guitar. All was good except for the darn wart from hell.
In a month some progress was beginning to show. The wart was slowly decaying. But it was a little too slow for our Ms. Foot Specialist.
She said that if it didn't show much progress in two more weeks then there would be no option but to chop it off like a butcher. Those were not the exact words that she used but that is what it sounded like to me. I began thinking of how I would walk back if I had a hole the size of a quarter on the sole of my foot...
end of part 3.