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Group: alt.magick · Group Profile
Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Sep 18, 2008 22:03
> works in a society with lots of plants
> the world heating up like it is with many species of plants vanishing
> since the ice age finally receded, plant based pharmaceuticals no
> longer became viable
> current research into ancient and medieval or primitive recipes and
> medicines is revealin startling medicinal qualities in many plant
> combinations
> unfortunately, modern science can only understand plant properties if
> they can isolate the active compounds
> minus good luck, they are stuck with plants with many active compounds
> with unknown properties they don't know how to test for and detect
> also too plants changes chemical properties over time so many ancient
> recipes just don't work today and we just don't know which plants the
> ancients or primitives actually used
Well actually, we do know something. Modern forensic tools have been
brought into obscure East European museums to look for plant resins and
pollens in ancient pots. There are some clues as to what Transylvanian
witches were actually cooking up.
But yes, your point well taken. I've collected Amanita Muscaria in my
neck of Ozark woods, and while tasty, they dont have the psychedelic
power of those imported from other regions. I've also seen pscilocybin
fungi here, but they also have no psychotropic powers.
Acid rain and pollution has changed the soils, and so plants and fungi
do not necessarily have the same effect as the record suggests.
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