[MPWG] eat the weeds

Fri Feb 4 00:13:47 CST 2005

Steven and Fred,

  I have information on use of this species for insanity.It is used traditionally for this purpose.
Some well known and promising traditional formulations and home remedies of Chhattisgarh, India needing scientific explanation. 127. Pagalpan Bar Arua Ke Upyog. 
http://botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/publish/journal.cgi?folder=journal&next=1617

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Steven Foster <sfoster at stevenfoster.com> wrote:
Fred et al.,

I don't know if you should eat Ailanthus, but a range of economic uses 
can be found in the following publication:

Hu, Shiu-Ying. 1979. Ailanthus. Arnoldia 39(2):29-50.

Best wishes,
Steven Foster

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On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Center for Sustainable Resources wrote:

> They all have a use and a purpose . It is that simple. I have been 
> trying to figure out how to use ailanthus. Foresters have made the 
> claim that it can't be used as wood because it ruins saw blades. I 
> have already figured out that that is not true but it is soft wood and 
> it stinks. It is not wanted because other trees presently available 
> have better qualities. However something that can grow thirty foot a 
> year could be valuable with even one good common use. Fred hays
>
>> From: pankaj oudhia 

>> To: MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org
>> Subject: Re: [MPWG] eat the weeds
>> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:19:14 +0000 (GMT)
>>
>> 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 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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