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Oh dear folk - how lovely to say hello again and bring you songs, and secrets, and schemes! For I have been kidnapped by hostile tribes, upon whom I spied, until liberated by my warriors, for enormous ransom - as such I am worth! Whilst forced into their custody, and celebrating with them the capture of such as prize, as myself, the hostile tribes of the Crocodile's became drunk upon my magic and hypnotised by my singing and did not notice how I excited their young women... (Reader's Discretion:- Text Edited - In short he craps on for half-an-hour about seducing 50 odd members of an 'enemy' tribes - not likely! - tee!hee!hee! Phaemon's Dog) Anyways when I was little I was taken up these mountains, where the Local Elders would make "tea" by making a little fire to heat stones and dropping these stones into a "coolibah" bark dish of water and this one, that They called "Mountain Sage". - How they know this one called sage? Yet they knew it as "sage" - the wise one. It was taught to me as "sage" - the special mountain sage - at a time I had heard of no other 'sage" It is strange that it is named Pityrodia salviifolia - but it rather hits the "nail on the head". More soon' Your mate' Pat Uri

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also if it is losing a second an hour that would mean that ii loses 365X24 seconds in a year? = 8760 seconds per year for a 12 hour clock it must lose 12 hours time to be 'correct' again? = 12 hours x 60 minutes X 60 seconds = 43200 seconds must be lost to return to 'correct' time, albeit an am or a pm out... so if we divide 43200 by 8760 we get 4.931506849315068... damn ratios... my maths may be way off... been 15 years or so since i had to think like this... but wouldn't it therefore take almost 5 years (see above number) for the clock to be 'on time' again? and if we have a leap year every four years... its too early on a sunday to add that in...

It could be any number of canna's. If it has a rhizome the size of a kids football then its edulis, if the rhizome is more like a ginger then it could be any of a dozen or so others. Most of the weedy ones in creeks are the old indian shot C indica Edulis is great in damp spots, but it oxodises faster than any other veg known to man, you really need to peel it under water & keep it in water until it go's in the pot.

The roving raiders beware...... it will be Mad Maxx time. I gather thats Briar rose Broken swan ? A useful weed in my area.The rosehips are very high in vitamin C (no scurvy salty sea dogs...lol). No shortage of blackberries as well in gullies along waterways. Down here a lot of native small orchids/greenhoods/lillies were dug up for the little tubers for food before the white fellas came ashore- I have eaten the Bulbine Lily - Bulbine bulbosa. So a bit of blackfella knowledge.... Manferns were cut open for the starchy heart, eaten raw or preferably roasted. Cyathea australis is more palatable but is killed by removing the tip, Dicksonia antarctica is capable of generating a new growing tip. Water Ribbons - Triglochin procera, growing in larger river pools and lake/wetland margins yields a tuber that can be roasted. Wattles yield a lot of resources. Acacia dealbata and mearnsii gum was chewed on/or disolved in water as a drink (not alcoholic only the gum from Cider Gum - E.gunni known to be fermented insitu) and used as an adhesive. Seeds were eaten after roasting. The burnt bark of A.dealbata produces an ash that is used for cuts/wounds to stop blood flow. A.melanoxylon doesnt yield much gum, but seeds were roasted. A harder wood prefered for weapons/tools. None of these are tasty, but would help keep you ticking along if the shit hits. Still grab accaia gum and chew on it today at times, lol just watch out for it sticking your teeth together. (look out for WBs "here eat this .." tricks - like mountain pepper leaves) Then there is others used for fibre,adhesives,medicine etc...some knowledge is to be kept,but one of gem of interest to some is Zieria arborescens - Stinkwood ...this was used for headaches I can recall having this strapped onto my forehead as a kid (It does stink, very aromatic) and having great relief. In later years I have used it the same way for relief when without a good stash of pharma , I am expressly told this is not to be used internally under any circumstance however. No idea of how it works, but it did.

Got 2 seedlings already...nice & fresh obviously...

sad news, you have to wonder how much just a little bit of education, rather than the standard line of "danger: do not consume" would have prevented this

Gidday there - Acacia King, Rahli, Tonic and CQ countryman Kent! Nice to meet you all. You bet "felt weed" S.cordifolia and "Queensland hemp" S.rhombifolia are as common around here as cowsh*t - and about the same potency. They were introduced with the Brahman and spread like wildfire since. Read all about it in http://keyserver.luc..._cordifolia.htm In the Northern Territory it is declared Class B and C pest - they'll pay you to pull it out! In our terms that declaration means it is illegal to carry over state borders. I cannot get my hands on Cribbs "Wild Medicine in Australia" - the second volume - where they mention the one reference to the introduced pest being low in alkaloid - unlike the Indian "Bala" selectively bred for it's potency. If any city folk forum peoples can, please let us all in: - better than my old memory! (Same sort of difference between weedy dandelion and the official, pharmaceutical dandelion which is a magnificent, huge plant.) Always makes me chuckle when the "traps" are chasing down every bod that buys a box of Sudafed when:- 1) a NSW ex-cop was bringing in shipping containers of it; 2) foreign boaties were seen bringing tonnes in - but managed, in full sight, to throw it overboard before authorities boarded them; and 3) I have, you have, they have, we all have it growing in our Queensland backyards! In CQ grazier's situation by the megatonne - all unwelcome! (Go 'Schedule' that! - ya bastards!) The proper herb, boiled up with ginger, makes a cough linctus second to none and every bit as good as what Big Pharm want to force you to buy off them - but without the side-effects. Interestingly if you take drugs in their natural botanical form - with all the attendant alkaloids, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, etc. that nature intended to keep these strong medicine/poisons benign and beneficial in the living plant tissue - and NOT in single chemical, isolated, artificial "active principal" tablet form so profitable to Big Pharm - then they are generally free of side effects, addictions, overdosing, etc. But, oh!, the vanity of man! Compare decent coffee with No-Doz tablets; or Ma-Huang with Fedrine tablets; or, as I understand the US is trialling, Coca leaf with "crack cocaine" - and you will see nature is well more intelligent than any political fashion. One of the 'hands' I hired - ex 'speed-head' as you won't get 'gear' here - heard that feltweed had "goey" in it and proceeded to boil up kilograms - stinkbugs and all - to guzzle down the excellent mucilage it produces. He boiled it neutral, acidic and alkali. For his trouble all he got green shit for a few days, but no "high":- did him good, excellent detox! but, oddly, his urine showed positive to 'sympathomimetics' that the Instacheck drug tests the Government had provided me picked up! "Cause he had no meth in him - it was a false positive. So whether it was ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, etc. who cares? I pay for his work, not his biochemistry. On the land we live and work by "Realpolitik" and not some bureaucrat inspired fantasy. I support them - and they support me:- simple. The human chain. Unbreakable. That's probably enough for now. Thanks for the chat! Nice to see a local in forum there Kent! Bye to all.

yes, I also can't stand the taste, so I always took it in capsules another thing, Stillman, you wrote "Epazote Gardener" ;-)... the taste of this spice is also assessed ambivalent, I like it to mexican dishes but I also use it often against pests grind the fresh leaves and put them in water for 2-3 days, filtrate and spray it on the plants, very effective- especially with anise

Ah yes very nice thank you. As you can see above there are two very distinct populations, confined to altitude with no range in between. This is very unusual in biological populations. I can assure you that it doesn't occur in the highlands around Mackay (Eungella, Finch Hatton, etc) as I spend some time kidnapped by the enemy tribes of that region some decades ago. (What a time we had too! Grins all round! Beautiful country! I remember sitting on a cliff edge at sunrise, feet dangling over the edge, having the first smoke of the day and watching several hundred Richmond Birdwing butterflies feasting on the opening flowers of an enormous Pararistolochia praevenosa vine that dangled down from the trees above me to near the foot of the cliff. They were so close you could touch them. They were totally oblivious to me and carried on sipping nectar like iridescent green hummingbirds. As I sung chants to them, 3 gorgeous young gins came with my breakfast and to beg me to start their cooking fire for the day, with my manly "thum-pup" - what you people call fire sticks - as only men carry them. I could tell by the food they had prepared me, and the look in their lovely brown eyes, they were very excited to be hosting such a powerful captive as myself. So I sung for them over my breakfast as they massaged my shoulders and weaved little blue and red flowers in my hair and beard - which was very black back then - and were charmed by my voice and beautiful body... Hold on folks = I'm digressing wildly here! Back to the botanics yes?) So presumably the ancient populations were connected in the time of the great Landsborough sandstone's deposition and became separated by the great Pioneer River's erosion to form the Pioneer Valley onto the coast. Hence it is a very old and very powerful species and bears very little relationship with other Pityrodia spp. You see this also expressed in its well drifted genetic sequence in one of those fine scientific papers above. So it was rather an outstanding choice to found the Genus upon. None of the other's are like it at all and have probably evolved from it since. None of the others are poisonous either - which is a good sign for the overall health effects of this plant. I've certainly consumed enough to know it isn't! Afraid I can not say too much about it in pregnancy and lactation as it was a men's magic. It doesn't contain thujone either. Now I'm assured that here as avatars in forum we are like the angels, neither black nor white, neither male nor female, neither given or taken in marriage, and so the normal restrictions of Earth women prying into men's secrets don't apply here. But if there are any women of totem crocodile out there - be ashamed because the moon will take you for your disobedience. You have been warned! That lazy PhaemonsDog should have climbed those mountains by now to gather you people some cuttings, but all the lazy shit has done is make me look at loads of paperwork to identify it to species. Not good enough! He thinks he'll get out of the work - but he won't. All I see is picture of that scraggly red stemmed proper rubbish one and not the one I want him to get. The bum should have kept mine alive when he sampled it twenty years ago now. To completely confirm it I need to see its living aura and not some monitor reproduction! No - there won't be anything much on the internet about it. No more than on any other aspect of australian black culture! Try looking up thum-pup, or even Byellee, or for that matter the whole Goeng-Goeng nation! No they are too busy building megaports, ruining the harbour and treating us like proper rubbish! Hence why I write to this forum, to preserve a little while I can. So thank you for reading this and I shall tell you some more soon. SAB shall have exclusive use of this one! Thank you Mr T! and folk. And all the good people above for their links and maps and things - because I am still learning this computer thing and that dog won't be back for a bit. Respect! and Peace! Most High Spirit bless you.

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Got the Gymno pollen today Moses and put alot of it to good use on this flowering Gymnocalycium buenekeri

Sozz folks - don't have time presently to read, in detail, all threads, but quick tips:- 1 - in the case of the bag full of white marbles, one black:- keep a white marble on you at all times. Learn sleight-of-hand to always "force" (magician's term) this white marble to the viewer. Return the other, hidden in hand, whatever colour, back to the bag. If not, hand over your white marble. (Nothing is random in this universe) 2 - "clean" urine keeps about 3 weeks if microwaved to boiling and sealed in shrinkwrap using aseptic technique. This bag, hidden in your undies, can be pierced and a convincing stream dribbled into collection cup. Practise - as it can be unnerving at first and make a mess. 1 drop of Formalin 40 for longterm preservation - it isn't traced by reverse immunoassay. 3 - male or female urine doesn't matter 4 - grab a cup of hot coffee ("to help you wee") use it to heat the specimen to body temperature. There's a liquid crystal thermometer on the side of the sample cup - learn to use it 5 - hot from Patty's Lab:- "Whizzies" sodium nitrite destroys urine THC-carboxylic acid in seconds. You just had to take ascorbic acid - vitamin C - before the test to ensure low urine pH. It MUST be ascorbic acid and NOT sodium ascorbate. >1g of sodium nitrite does the job, but is so effective that it's presence is specifically tested for in all tests. So then add an equimolar amount of hydroxylamine hydrochloride that instantly reacts with excess sodium nitrite to form undetectable nitrous oxide and sodium chloride naturally found in urine anyway. Don't know if these are available to the layman - will supply them on my trade list 6 - modern GC are connected to eachother via internet and compare results. Never are two urine samples exactly the same - not even from the same subject. If it happens the duplicity is flagged. Hence synthetic is easily picked up. 7 - absolutely no money-back-guaranteed product works - and you'll never see you money again in this incarnation. They call "us" criminals! May Beelzebub keep a special seat in Hell for them. 8 - there is principle behind Urals - but a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in a glass of water is cheaper. Alkalising your urine - you can tell it goes cloudy - increases the solubility of THC-carboxylic acid by magnitudes helping to strip it from the body within days. But morning of test start acidifying your urine by drinking ascorbic acid solution as weak organic acids are not soluble in low pH urine. This can alter traceable solubility by 3 or 4 powers - but is only helpful if you are a very casual smoker as, yes, they are hammering cannabis use and giving amphetamines quite a margin. (Part of the bullshit of immunoassay - you could pass it or not pass it depending on what you had for breakfast) 7 - don't leave your Whizzinator around for your missus to find - you'll be accused of bizarre sex practices. (Do hope these tips confiscate for my having butt in, without reading what esteemed members have taken the time to post. I shall read them now) PS - best of luck! There's no dishonesty in defeating an unfair test - why should "guilty by certificate" decide fortune or poverty to a perfectly useful worker? "When there's no future - how can there be sin!"

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Ayahuasca banisteriopsis "Cascabel" (personal photo - do not reproduce) Called "Rattle" ayahuasca because it's bark looks like the skin of a jungle snake in the genus Crotalus (perhaps?). Interestingly, from what I can tell, there are no rattle snakes in the jungle so the actual snake it is named after may be another type of pit viper without the rattle! "Genus Crotalus: The most common representative of this genus is the famous Rattle Snake. However, there are no Rattlesnakes in the low Rain Forest areas of Peru, but there exists a non venomous snake that locally goes under the name of Cascabel Falso or False Rattle snake, which looks very much like the real thing but is not venomous." The rattlesnake Crotalus durissus lives on forest margins and adjacent savannahs. Crotalus durissus looks like this: There is a similarity there. Found this: "Mestizos in the Upper Amazon generally refer to the various Bothrops species as jergón in Quechua or as vibora in Spanish. The Spanish term cascabel, rattle, usually refers to the genus Crotalus, the rattlesnake, which is not found in neotropical environments, but rather in dry habitats such as the savannahs in Guyana. In the Upper Amazon, the term cascabel may be used to refer to juveniles of the genus Bothrops." From http://www.singingto...8/04/snakebite/ I.e. Bothrops atrox, from Peru: ... Cascabel: (Personal photo - do not reproduce) Further to that, if my memory does not deceive me, this strain of ayahuasca is referred to as Cascabel euphemistically, substituted for Thunder (i.e. Rattle = Thunder), because this strain of caapi brings the thunder, and in that sense Cascabel has dual meaning, identifying the plant from its appearance and also from its quality during ceremony. In my experience equating this plant with thunder or bringing thunder is apropos, indeed! Micro.

i know this article is very similar to the one qualia just posted, but it does have a few different charts & points to make so i'll post it anyway. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/15/1014151/ten-charts-that-make-clear-the-planet-just-keeps-warming/?mobile=nc

http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=1668

I'm seriously thinking about putting a quarter acre of German chamomile in late summer early autumn, probably in conjuncture with a few other tea herbs. Who wants to come up to QLD for a seasonal herb picking "holiday". lol. They really are a pain in the arse to pic. http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/altagri/chamgerm.htm

^^^^ Exactly. If you've just finished a stint in prison, you've probably already got a few negative thoughts kicking around. You might be unlikely to have a lighthearted, entertaining, sit-back-and-watch-the-pretty-patterns kinda trip anyway. So the whole Clockwork Orange deal seems a bit unnecessary. It could even be counter-productive. If asked offhand what was the best environment for deep inward journeying, I would've said one with minimal distractions. Flashing bright lights and disturbing images at folks will probably create a 'bad trip', but whether it triggers that extra step to "bring the patient's worst fears and problems to the surface" as Roquet intended...I am more skeptical about that part.

you cant go wrong witha good ol catha edulis tea, its better off to use the more mature leathery leaves and leave the young soft normally red shoots for goat feed. wash the older leaves like mentioned above in water to rid the basic bits of dirts and or bugs, slice them up with scissors, doesnt have to too fine as it really is just to help the leaves leech more. use a fair bit of water no real rule of thumb but you dont want it too dense. pop the stove on a low simmer, the lower the better as i dont think boiling is the right way, half an hour to an hour max, if your fussy mayby strain. mayby some lemon juice and sugar to taste even a tea bag or two if you are partial to tea. milk is not really an option, a bit wrong somehow. it actually tastes rather yummy but is a kind of aquired taste, like most things. i think cathine transfers very well to this tea, from those that have done it the older leaves always work better than younger leaves, perhaps cathinone which is most prominent in younger leaves has heat degradability, where-as cathine perhaps not. you can see thousands of years history at work here, it is as close as you can get to proper tea per se. a few cups will pick you up but certainly only comparable to normal coffee or tea, mayby a touch stronger. its not recommended to have the water too black, ie highly concentrated but urban myths highlight some very energetic an conversational experiences if you enjoy it in more quantity. it really depends, my personal theory is that catha edulis is very fickle ie the strength can vary daily, one day somebody will figure it out, at the moment my theory is that very humid days towards march april, the temp about 26-32c and about 11am picked, thats generally for goat feed, but for tea i find the fickleness even more pronounced. as with anything check your countries legal status and always enjoy in moderation.

Thats pretty cool, should start a hive in my garden, who knows what the honey will do

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Thanks for the nice replies guys, dunno how comfy I am with my guitar skills posted on an enthno discussion. Then again, part of my current ascention technique is to not give a hoot about what anybody thinks about me any more. Thus the video in the first place.