Herbal fun again
Today I made a wonderful walk in the dunes with Foofur & Arwen. While they were walking around me I picked some red poppy (papaver rhoeas), not the opium poppy: that's papaver somniferum. Back home I put them in alcohol, oil and hot water (separately). Internally poppy helps against coughs, throat aches, hemorrhage, nervousness and insomnia. In external application it has a soothing and moisturising effect on the skin.
I love my herbal experiments. I have made quite a few. At the moment this is my window sill in the kitchen:








2 comments:
Very witchy, you wise woman. :-)
Nice! I'm sort of the 'mad scientist' too!
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