Herb and Root Metaphysics

Cattails (Typhaceae)

We can find many useful plants near the water like cattails. There are two species of cattails common to North America. The major difference is in the wideness of the leaf. A broad leaf is a Typha latifolia, a narrow leaf Typha angustifolia. Southern Cattail is T. domingensis.
Food Preparation: Cattails are a versatile food stuff. The roots, new shoots and flowering heads are edible. In the spring, simply find the shoots; reach down into the mud and pull. Peel off the off the outer leaf and underneath is a tender tongue of cattail; Sauté this delicate core for 3-5 minutes in butter. Deeper in the soil is a long root where the cattail was attached. The root core is an excellent source of starch. Eat the starch raw as quick energy food or better yet, crush the roots in cold water and leach out the starch. The starch may be added to soups and stews as a thickener.
About mid June the male flowering head of the cattail located above the female flower spike may be stripped into a plastic bag. This high protein flower extender will keep in your refrigerator for eight months or use it immediately.
Here's a recipe.
CATTAILS, Male Pollen Pancake Mix
Ingredients: pancake mix and 1/2 cup male cattail reproductive parts.
- Add 1/2 cup the male part, the pollen, anther and stamen to 2 cups of your favorite pancake mix.
Try pollen and female parts in cookies, muffins, biscuits and bread recipes.
The young female bloom spike may be cooked like corn on the cob:
-Boil or steam in lightly salted water. Cook till tender. Butter and eat it hot.

Favorite Wild Food Combinations: Cattail shoots, saute with stinging nettle, violet leaves, violet flowers, dandelions, wild leeks and spring mushrooms such as Dryad's saddle or morels.
This is a favorite one skillet dish I prepare in the May when hiking or foraging. All the plants can be gathered in a lowland area with adjacent woods.
Recipe: Feeds four:
-chop ten leeks
-two cups of violet leaves and flowers
-two cups chopped nettles
-two cups dandelion leaves
-two or three cups mushrooms
-ten cattail shoots about six inches long
Put ½ cup of water in the pan. Cook over coals. Flavor with two tablespoons of olive oil, a couple dashes of soy sauce, and if you have it with you two tablespoons of chopped Oriental ginger and a tablespoon of sesame seed oil. Squeeze in the juice of 1/4 cup of lemon. Stir fry until mushrooms are tender. Serve.

Medicinal: chopped roots of cattail have been applied to burns and minor cuts. For more health and herbal tips, read the "Herbalist" by Joseph Meyer.
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How much do you know about the practice of Black Hawk?

The Spirit of Black Hawk
By: Jason Berry
Physical Book: 158 Pages, Hardcover
Year Published: 1995
Category: Ethnography, Africa-American, New Orleans, Mardi Gras
Primary Subjects: Black Spiritualism
Description: Black Hawk is an African American spiritual practice based on Native American spirits. While it denies being Voodoo, its practices, especially with potions, are almost identical. This book recounts Marie Laveau, Congo Square and the controversy of the origins of Mardi Gras Indians.
Basically illustrates the "uptown" (non-Creoles) parallel (to Voodoo) manifestations of spiritualism in New Orleans. Book includes color photo illustrations.

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Hoodoo in the Work Place by the Divine Prince

So you have done your best and all that you think you can do but things seems to still be stagnant on at your job and work place? Now you are wondering if something else maybe at work.

Start by cleaning up. Clutter and general un-cleanliness can trap stagnant, old and negative vibrations, energies and patterns in your work space that can keep you from creating fresh ideas, ways of thinking and creating and moving forward in promotions and advancements.

Especially today in these tough economic times many are turning to harsher graver means to security financial and job security far beyond the backstabbing of the modern office place, people are now turning to magical and supernatural means to bring harm and confusion in the work place.

Be especially wary of those eating, bring and carelessly dropping peanut shells in your space. When applied correctly in with very specific incantations, peanut shells have been used since the age of slavery to disrupt and create confusion in the work place.

Often used to break up a perceived strong hold or unfair balance of power, they are utilized to create a viral like attack and breakdown in organization, communications and cohesion within the set up work environment.

Many have now heard the stories of a growing number of people and children who experience violent reaction to the physical ingestion of even a minute amount of peanut product.

These unfortunates experience a breakdown in the life giving function of the organs that we must have to maintain live and thrive, particularly respiratory and immune functions.

Peanut hulls can have the same affect spiritually and ethereally when applied to do harm or evil.

Frequent and regular cleansing of the environment and items within the work space with sudsy ammonia and warm water will assist to alleviate, clean and remove any presence of the root and its effects from the environment.

Also be careful bringing in too many photos and personal items into your work space that can be utilized to attach negative vibrations to you and your love ones.

I also suggest keeping food items to just what you can eat in a short period of time and within reach or monitoring range if at all possible or eat out fresh.

Community kitchens and food storage areas are often the first place people of ill will target within the work place and many video have been aired on television and the internet of such situations, gone wrong.

Stones great for enlivening energies and creating positive helpful wholesome vortexes while also assisting in data processing, storage and retrieval, organization and a sense of time awareness are Quartz Clusters of Amethyst, Citrine, Hematite and Chlorite included Clear Quartz.

Clusters are the ‘multitaskers’ of the mineral kingdom and are able to process countless frequencies, energies, personalities and task simultaneously and with multidimensional range and efficiency.

Clusters encourage cohesion, cooperation and collective responsibility, division of labor and specialization.

Another great spiritual battling tool is High John the Conqueror Root; Legendary for its ability to assisting in battling all manner of spiritual wickedness, illness and vibrations.

Contact me for more details on the proper usage and location of these items and processes.

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