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Oct 15, 2022Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

Here in the pacific northwest, there are many plants that help with Covid growing natively and by introduction. Based solely on how pomegranate tastes to me, I would say a combination of nettles and sea buckthorn. Many types of crabapples, usually very sour, also grow here. With supply chains distruped, we might do well to know more about what is growing under our noses as they say. Best form Oregon

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Yes, there are so many beneficials usually some are growing locally. Dandelion root and leaf is something I gathered in the spring. I also made some plantain, pomegranate peel extract with vodka but still need to strain it and try it. First attempt at alcohol extract for me.

Evergreen needle tea, not yew and maybe juniper. Arbor vitae landscaping plants are good though and cedar. The Wormwood/mugwort family grows widespread, some species or another and all seem similar beneficially.

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Oct 15, 2022Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

awesome, Jennifer --yes...I did make a very good Juniper-Mugwort-Wormwood-Caraway Digestive Beer, from book Brew Like A Yeti. I am on the last bit, it is a near a year old now and VERY GOOD. That and Stephen Buhners book 'Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers' are so good, as well as a very old book on winemaking by a person named Mettja Roates, from the 1970s...(so much sugar is used there, I use about half but a very good book and my first brewing book really)....I bet your plantain pomegranate tincture will be awesome, I did the same with a batch of Hawthorne berries so now I have a bunch of that (I been using the potato vodka cuz the grain vodkas do not agree with me as well).....(doesn't last as well either though!) best from Or

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Thanks, sounds great! I am not sure what type of vodka it is, was an unopened bottle in some boxes I had to sort. I will have to look.

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Interesting. Yes, safe study design. Do it and see if you can get the Ig Nobel prize and then later the Nobel Prize, both. Sign of real ground-breaking work - going from jeers to cheers.

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