05-06-2012, 11:32 PM | #11 |
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It's not something I have ever heard. Most animals relish it. Maybe you are thinking of some other plant in the same family, coffee, quinine? The seeds, I believe taste like coffee. The whole plant is of great medicinal value particularly as a diuretic, solvent of bladder stones and skin complaints, although not much used these days.
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Wild lettuce Lactuca virosa Bitter lettuce, Opium Lettuce Biennial herb : Wild lettuce contains a sedative milky latex that can induce opium like sensations. Wild lettuce is a valuable remedy for insomnia and muscular arthritis....
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Wild lettuce, I will need to get some of that. I hope if you grow it in the garden it stays wild and doesn't become tame
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it might have been bindweed that had the hallucinogenic properties but for sure, Morning Glory has
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I think they've now bred out the woo woo stuff that used to be in Morning Glory.
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I think the seeds were coated with something - Morning Glory seeds that is.
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