Heal All Flowers - A Lichen - and a Squeeze Cat

Posted by WiseAcre on Sep 28th, 2008
2008
Sep 28

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Prunella vulgaris

This is a Eurasian alien often found in lawns. It is a member of the mint family and tea / gargle made from the leaves is/was used to treat sore throats and mouth sores. In China a tea made from the flowering plant was considered ‘cooling’ and used to treat ‘heat’ in the liver. The plant contains the diuretic compound ursolic acid and is used to treat kidney aliments.

Heal All

I don’t know about heated liver except it’s best cooked with onions. And as far as a diuretic goes - nothing beats a pot of strong coffee.

And now for something completely different.

Lichen Wallpaper

Lichen fruiting body

What do you get when you mix algae and fungus? I got another desktop background

:)

More? How about tacking up a cat on your desktop?

I couldn’t resist posting this photo of my daughter’ssqueeze cat. Poor Mavie was ‘raised by’ my youngest daughter when both were toddlers. She used to take poor Mavie to bed and lay on him so he couldn’t escape. Now he isn’t happy until someone gives him a big squeeze.

Cat

If you think he’s cute enough the image is linked to a larger image suitable to use as desktop wallpaper.  You can’t squeeze him but he’ll be happy enough as your cat background.

3 Responses

  1. rosemary Says:

    love your pictures my fav is the lichen

    rosemary,
    I had to go with Mavie - After all he’s my daughter’s main squeeze.

  2. Aiyana Says:

    Wonderful photography–even the weird one featuring your digit disease in the earlier post.
    Aiyana

    Aiyana,
    The new camera has me obsessed with taking photographs. Some just had to come out decent. Yea, I better stop poking things.

  3. kml Says:

    The lichens are their own little world - just love it!

    kml,
    It is a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there. I hear the natives practice symbiosis.

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