Plants are medicine, and we’ve discovered about 15% of the species inhabiting Earth. What this means (among other things) is that the medicinal potential of all the undiscovered plant species, from the highest mountain ranges to the deepest, blackest reaches of the ocean, is almost unimaginable. Climate change may be about to sweep all those potential cures away.
Boil them, mash them, stir fry them, or hysterically beat them with the family broom. Here is a short list of vegetables which, when seen in a poorly lit room, can make otherwise reasonable people scream. Even the other vegetables are traumatized by them.
You've seen these little wheatgrass stands. Usually there is a blender, an overly-energized server in an apron, and a decorative little plot of earth with bright green grass growing straight up out of it with therectitude of a marine drill sergeant's crew cut.
Since we’re trapped on this rock a scant 93 million miles from this bipolar nuclear neighbor, we’ll just have to find a way to make the relationship work. There are ways to partake of the sun’s glory without turning our skin into burlap. Let’s talk.
Our primal chemical pleasures, buoyant good moods, and general sense of empathetic well-beingoriginate in the bowel to a large degree. Seriously. This is a feel-good phenomenon the Hallmark Corporation is at pains to monetize with a colorful series of bowel-themed greeting cards. We wish them luck.
Nature found it convenient to equip plants and mammals with these same disease-fighting protein triggers. Strange and heartening news—and more proof that plant-vs-human horror movies are home-wreckers. Looks like you owe your Philodendron an apology.
