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Foraging Notes, Feb 11-12 2020 with Nissim Krispil at the Ancient Roots Israel conference

חצב
Bulb is poisonous.  Used as rodent poison dried chopped up pieces. Arabs call it rat onion.  Also sauté with olive oil and use to put on topically for back pain.  If the stalk grows very high in August it means that there will be lots of rain in the winter.  Certainly worked in 2019/20.
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חצב

חרצית הטורא

Good in salad
Tastes like celery
Has a yellow flower in the spring.  Flowers are used for migraines.  You dry them
Make a tea with it
Chrysanthemum
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ברקן. Milk thistle
When the leaves are young remove the thorns on the edges and use it as a lettuce
These two plants contain a lot of iron
Good as a liver cleanse

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לשון הפר
Used for wounds
Pulverized with olive oil.  Especially infected wounds
Fry it.  Four or five hours on the wound as a poultice


מרווה ריחנית
Arabs make tea of it in the winter and drink it all he time.  Don’t drink too much: 3-4 cups a day max.  More than that damages the liver.  Bitter food is good for the digestive system. Sheba is also an anti cancer plant
Artemisia Sheba
Similar to wormwood



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This is an Arab delicacy - אקוב
עכובית הגלגל
It’s the bulb that is then cleaned of thorns and then cooked with chicken
​Easily distinguished by the red leaf stalk.


Mandrake

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"In essence, if you were to consume it you would basically get hallucinations, dizziness and increased heart rate, and you could get disturbed vision as a consequence of it, and then disturbed cognition. If the dose is high enough it could kill you," says Prof Michael Heinrich from the School of Pharmacy at UCL.
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Mullen or בוצעו
Good for the lungs even in the form of inhaling smoke from burning it.

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