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“Also, Stephen J. Tonsor of Michigan State University and Mary F. Wilson of the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Juneau, Alaska, found that some flowering plants, such as pokeweeds (Phytolacca americana) and English plantains (Plantago lanceolata), grow faster when potted with full or half sib lings than when potted with nonrelatives.”
“No publications found so far for Tonsor and Phytolacca should be 1989”
“Other homeopathic remedies to consider include Phytolacca, Sanguinaria, and Hydratis—all in 6th to 30th potency.”
“Poke root Phytolacca americana has a well-deserved reputation as an herb that purifies the glands, including the breasts.”
“Specific herbs that clear up this problem are dandelion root tea taken together with a combination of three parts echinacea root tincture and one part poke root Phytolacca americana.”
“Of the twelve most frequently reported plants in poisoning incidents, only one, pokeweed Phytolacca decandra, is used medicinally.”
“Few of such plants are those which can be used as laxatives and purgatives, for example, Cassia absus, C. alata, C. obtusifolia, Tamarindus indica and Phytolacca dodecandra.”
“The poke-weed (_Phytolacca_) (Fig. 98, _K_), so conspicuous in autumn on account of its dark-purple clusters of berries and crimson stalks, is our only representative of the family _Phytolaccaceæ_.”
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“It belongs to the rare Phytolacca family, and has an immense girth -- forty or fifty feet in some cases; at the same time the wood is so soft and spongy that it can be cut into with a knife, and is utterly unfit for firewood, for when cut up it refuses to dry, but simply rots away like a ripe water-melon.”
“It is believed by some in this country that the pokeweed (Phytolacca), if allowed to die in a cotton field, will produce rust.”
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