Lavandula officinalis is located in mountainous zones of the Mediterranean and flourishes throughout southern Europe, Australia, and the United States. Its common name is lavender and is from the phylum Angiosperm. This plant is good and has been used for over 2,500 years. It is often used for massages, acupuncture, and chiropratic manipulation. Scientific evidence has shown that armotherapy with lavender may slow the activity of the nervous system, improve sleeping quality, promote relaxation, and lift the mood in people suffering from people with sleeping disorders. Lavender may be used in diluted concentrations to treat skin infections and injuries such as cuts and scrapes and prevent midge and mosquito bites. It is used also to moisturize skin and is used in healing baths for healing joint and muscle pains. It is considered the premier of all perfume. In tudor times, lavender brew was sipped by maidens on St. Lukes day to divine the identity of their true loves. Lavender grows as a compact bush up to 30 inches and can treat microbial activity on gums. Egyptians also used lavender for mummification. Charles VI of France demanded lavender filled pillows wherever he went to relax and help with sleep.
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Mrs. Hauck - What is a tuberous root?
ReplyDeleteS.Sanders
Deletetuberous roots are swollen, nutrient storing root tissue with thickened fleshy parts scattered along their lengths. similar to tubers
R. Sharp
ReplyDeleteWhy is your good plant,Circuta virosa commonly calledMackenzie's Water Hemlock? Was it named after someone?
K.Marlow
ReplyDeleteWhat are sloughs and where are they found?
S.Sanders
Deletesloughs are swamps and are found anywhere there is water, vegatation, and flood zones.
T.Murray- is your bad plant poisonous by touching it or if it is eaten?
ReplyDeleteS.Sanders
Deletesome people mistaken the water hemlock for celery of other edible plants and eat and all parts of the plant are poisonous and when contacted with skin it can cause redness and swelling.
J. Reilman- How is lavender used, like do you eat it, smell it, You said what they use it for, but how do you use it?
ReplyDeleteS. Sanders
Deletelavender can be used in aromatherapy so you can smell it and it can be used as an oil for cuts and scrapes. i have not seen anything saying that people eat the plant for usage.
J.Fischer
ReplyDeleteIn where your bad plant is usually found, what exactly is a "slough"?
S.Sanders
Deletesloughs are swamps
B.Flottman
ReplyDeleteIs Mackenzie's Water Hemlock found in ohio
S.Sanders
DeleteThey can be found throughout Ohio. Particularly in wet prairies.
Z.Mullins
ReplyDeletewhat region is your bad plant located.
S.Sanders
Deleteit is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere
A. Iker
ReplyDeletehow do people make the lavender flower into a perfume?
S.Sanders
Deleteit is processed into an oil and the oil is then put into perfumes.
I have two questions actually. What exactly is 'Midge'? And how does Lavender keep Mosquito's away?
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S.Sanders
Deletea midge is a small two-winged fly that is often seen in swarms near water or marshy areas. i couldn't really find anything about how exactly lavender keeps away mosquitos.
D. Torok
ReplyDeleteHow do you get poisoned? is it by consuming the plant?
S.Sanders
DeleteYou can get the poisoning by consuming or touching the plant because all parts of the plant are poisonous.
A.IDing
ReplyDeleteDoes the color attract bees? or does the smell??
S.Sanders
DeleteThe scent attracts the bees.
A.Hardin
ReplyDeleteYou said the Water Hemlock is slighty furrowed?
What does this mean?
S.Sanders
Deletethis means a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
W. Schuster
ReplyDeleteCan birth defects only happen if a woman is pregnant when she eats them? Or is it possible for a woman to eat them when she is not pregnant, then if she gets pregnant, birth defects can happen?
T.Lee
ReplyDeleteWhy does the water hemlock thrive in wet places? Why does ot need so much moisture or water to survive>?
T.COlwell
ReplyDeleteHow does lavander treat cuts or masquito bites?
S.Sanders
Deletelavender treats mosquito bites by easing the itch caused from them and it treats cuts by stopping the bleeding caused.
T. Atkins
ReplyDeleteWhat poison is found in Mackenzie's Water Hemlock?
S.Sanders
Deleteit is known as either water hemlock poisoning or beaver poisoning.
N.Covault
ReplyDeletecan you remove Circuta virosa and keep it from growing back?
S.Sanders
Deleteyou can dig the plant out or spray them with an herbicide.
P.Kinnair
ReplyDeletecan you pick the flower from the wild and it will help you relax or do you have to do somethng to it?
S.Sanders
Deletethe scent of the actual plant may have the same aromatherapedic affects