Guest guest Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 , Good report. Have been pickling purslane (relish) for a while. That being said, in Indiana, pigweed looks like this (google link) It has prickly thorns and is not a ground-hugging succulent. From my quick search, it seems that Purslane (/Portulaca olearacea/) is called Pigweed in Australia and NZ, possibly elsewhere. Most of the University plant id web pages listed various members of the /Amaranthus/ family as Pigweed (pics below). Another reason folks lecturing in public should reference latin names... You prolly can consume pigweed /Amaranthus/ etc by processing it like Nettles. Don't know what nuitrients are in /Amaranthus/ and they're too prickly to bother with at this stage of hunger. (how blessed we are!) Saralou google.com/images?hl=en & q=pigweed%20picture & um=1 & ie=UTF-8 & source=og & sa=N & tab=wi & \ biw=1360 & bih=518 //www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/Weed/purppig.htm //safiles.tamu.edu/agronomy/newsltr/weed003.htm /Portulaca olearacea /appears to be called pigweed down Under... ://www.livingturf.com/weed-identification-n-z.php //www.greenharvest.com.au/seeds/vegetables_d_l.html //www.msuturfweeds.net/details/_/redroot_pigweed_32/ Redroot Pigweed --- /Amaranthus retroflexus/ Here are pictures of Purslane (/Portulaca olearacea/) //landscaping.about.com/od/weedsdiseases/ig/weed-plants/Purslane-Photo.htm //www.umassvegetable.org/ethnic-crops/crops/verdolaga.html //tgcgarden.wordpress.com/ //safiles.tamu.edu/agronomy/newsltr/common_purslane_portulaca_oleracea_001.jpg > > This is the truth! I attended a wellness conference and heard this > incredible lady talk about the weed purslane--you know, pig weed. It's > everywhere, all across the US, invasive in every garden and yard. > > This lady is a scientist, if I remember right, and a medical > intuitive. She > had so many clients that were ill with mercury poisoning. She wanted to > find a way to help them and started praying to be shown something that > could > help. > > She also gardens, and knows pigweed as a weed that is just always there. > She's hoed it out for years, but it keeps coming back. So, she's praying > for something to help, and working in her garden and there's this large > pigweed that she pulled up. This time she thought " I'm going to put it on > top of this rock here, so it will die " because she knows that if she just > leaves it laying on the ground it's going to re-root. > > The next day she goes back out to her garden and the first thing she > sees is > the pigweed. Sitting on the rock and not only not dead, but still fat and > juicy! It suddenly struck her-- " I've been asking for something to get rid > of mercury--what if this is the answer? " > > So she takes some of the plants into her lab and tests them. Sure enough, > it removes mercury! She's astounded and sends it to 3 other, independent > labs, to have it tested and they all come back with the same info--it > removes mercury. > > She then develops an underarm deodorant because with the main lymph glands > being right there, that this deodorant pulls the mercury out from there. > She also has made it into capsules to take. It tends to give some kidney > pain (dumping the mercury there before it is urinated out) so she > discovered > that cloves stops the kidney pain. The routine is to stop the purslane for > a few days and load up on clove capsules, then go back to the purslane. > > She discovered that putting purslane in a cream and rubbing it on the back > of the neck and the sides of the neck will stop a migraine. I'm sure > by now > as this was about 3 or 4 years ago, she's come up with some other products > with it. > > She's Canadian and it's hard to find her products here. But you can call > them and they will tell you who is an American distributor. It's a family > run business, her, husband and daughter. You can even call and pay for a > medical reading from her. > > Her site is http://www.naturalplantation.com/index.html > > Now, purslane is also a superfood. It use to eaten by our pioneers, but > unless you are interested in wild foods, hardly anyone knows this > anymore. > There is information about this being a super food on her site, too. > > Samala, > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > I have almost decided that the tougher a > > weed is to eradicate, the more we have to learn and benefit by it > > somehow. Joyce Simmerman > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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