Sunday, December 27, 2020

Lactura, wild lettuce

 Discussion again on how it only works as a "lettuce opium" for a few, sensitive people. It has never done anything for me. But, after being on pain meds for a couple of years when I injured my back so badly I was partially paralyzed... neither does anything but straight morphine.. and even that stops working after a week or two. So, I can't use anything like that because in order to be strong enough to stop the pain, it would stop my heart.

MM Recommends harvesting whole plants, hanging them upside down to dry and then using the dried leaves as a tea for spasmodic coughing.

1 comment:

  1. There are different sub species of lactura. Only 1 has the “opium” effect. I don’t know what to identify that 1 sub species.

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