[MPWG] eat the weeds

[pankaj oudhia]

Bob thanks for initiating discussion on my favorite aspect.
 
Instead of using word weed we can use the wild plants. Because when we use weed the researchers afraid of invasives come forward. 
 
In my region the utilization of weeds is not resulting in spread of these species.The natives are using it as curry, the healers are using at as medicine and the farmers are earning additional income by uprooting and selling it to local traders.This concept is known as Management through Utilization. I have written over 400 research articles on medicinal weeds .Also much on herbal dishes prepared from weedy species.Please read this article
Traditional medicinal knowledge about common weeds used as potherbs (Bhaji) in Chhattisgarh, India
http://www.botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/11_potherbs.html 
 
You can get more articles from
http://www.iprng.org/IPRNG_MTAW.html
or simply search medicinal weed or medicinal weeds at google.com ,you will get the articles in third number.
 
regards
Pankaj Oudhia 
http://www.pankajoudhia.com
 
Bob Beyfuss <rlb14 at cornell.edu> wrote:
I think eating weeds is a good idea, many of them are far more nutritious 
than their cultivated counterparts, i.e. dandelion. I will send her lots of 
recipes from an Extension bulletin I wrote in 1977. I am not so sure 
publishing recipes for invasive plants is a good idea. The reason we have 
some of these plants today is because they were purposely introduced as 
food crops for us or cattle, i.e., Kudzu. As recently as last year I saw 
garlic mustard seed for sale in a catalogue as an edible green.
Bob


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