Researching Herb Safety

aerieherbal:

thestarrywisdom:

heatherwitch:

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Hey witchblr and everyone else who is interested! I’ve noticed a lack of awareness when it comes to herbal remedies/medicines having side effects and interactions with medications, and realized a lot of people don’t know where to look! (All sites linked are free):

  • Articles on herb-drug interactions: [1] [2] [3]
  • Chart for possible herb-drug interactions
  • HerbMed has a search function where you can look up the herb and find possible interactions.
  • WebMD has a search function where you can look up an herb, and then select interactions and pull up very thorough medication lists. 
  • University of Maryland Medical Center has some info on common side effects and how to safely use herbal remedies. 
  • NIH has a search function where you can look up the herb and find credible articles and info on it. 
  • iMedPub has scholarly journals and articles on herbal medicine.

  • Elsevier also has scholarly journals and articles on herbal medicine.

Please send me more if you know of them, and I’ll start a part two! 🙂

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/phytochem/search

While this is great if you’re going to use herbs by yourself, a lot of these claim false interactions and false side effects about the herbs. So if you want to take herbs its better to consult a trained herbalist.

Could you please let me know which resources are posting false information and let me know what the false information is specifically? I cross referenced a lot of things before posting these and I thought they were pretty solid, so I’m curious. All the information I found seemed accurate. I’d also appreciate more accurate resources if you have them ❤

a witch’s palm.

magickjustice:

palmistry placements that may indicate certain natural traits or abilities related to witchcraft.

the mystic cross.
“x” shaped cross located between the head and heart lines.
indicates that spirituality, witch’s intuition, and acknowledgement of power or ability were understood at a very young age.

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the psychic cross.
“x” shaped cross located beneath:

  • the index finger: blessings from jupiter/zeus. wisdom, and a great capacity for knowledge. often destined to teach or impart. 
  • the middle finger: blessings from saturn/cronus. intuition, and a great capacity for visceral power. often has natural ability working in dreams and meditations.
  • the ring finger: blessings from sun/apollo. attraction, and a great ability to naturally draw in your needs and desires. often powerful with enchantments. 
  • the little finger: blessings from mercury/hermes. instinct, and a great natural ability for practice. often adopts new methods with ease and natural talent.

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the psychic triangle.
triangular shape located beneath the ring finger.
indicates that in this life, or another, you have chosen to suppress your abilities. they are likely powerful, but potentially caused harm- intentionally, or not. (this does not mean they are unreachable, it more likely encourages you to work very consciously.)

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the healer’s mark.
a series of parallel lines located beneath the little finger.
indicates powerful healing abilities; the more lines, the greater the gift. 

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the traveller’s mark.
a series of parallel lines located beneath the mount of the moon.
indicates that there is an innate talent and drive in travelling both the physical and the astral planes. a natural ability for astral projection; the more lines, the greater the gift.

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legally we don’t have Lyme in Australia because we “don’t have deer” but. we have so many deer. so we probably have Lyme and our medical officials are bullshit!

Yeahhhh….. I don’t understand why Lyme is so controversial and there’s been reports of people getting bitten by ticks in Australia, getting the Erythema Migrans rash and presenting all of the Lyme symptoms but since Lyme doesn’t exist in Australia (uwu) they obviously don’t have it. The only way it gets taken seriously is if they LIE and say they got a tick bite in a different country. It’s so ridiculous and I’m bitter with y’all. 

ALSO there have been forms of Borrelia found in ticks on other Australian fauna (kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots) and a researcher has found ticks carrying Lyme in Australia but all of this has been omitted from studies. Deer ticks are not the only ticks that carry Lyme anyways so! [X] 

The Australian Government DOH views: [X]

The documentary following the struggle of Lyme sufferers and people in the medical profession trying to prove Lyme is real in Australia: [X]

Obviously I’m not fully educated on this topic and I have never been to Australia, but it seems like far too many people are suffering and are be ignored because of some misconceptions. 

I’ve been seeing a lot of confusion about reblogging vs. reposting so I want to clarify the different things you can do with a post!

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The symbols: left to right (1, 2, 3, 4)

  1. This is designed so you can send the post to users via messages. It still links to the original post and poster. It’s also where you find the link for the post, so you can link it if you ever have a need to! (OP does not receive notifications for this)
  2. This is so you can leave comments on the post. Sometimes this isn’t an option, it depends on the post. Say nice things here! (OP sees notifications)
  3. This is so you can REBLOG the post. This is how you share the posts to your blog. This gives full credit to the original poster and is what we want you to do! (OP sees notifications)
  4. This is the ‘like’ button. Once you click it, it saves this post with your other likes. (OP sees notifications).

Notice how there is NO repost button? That’s because reposting takes effort! This involves screenshotting or copying and pasting, then putting it in a brand new post. When you do this, the original creator gets no recognition and the post isn’t linked back to them in any way. This makes it seem like it’s your creation – don’t steal the hard work from others.

One more time: Reblogging (using the button) is okay! Reposting (stealing and posting as your own) is not okay.

In this post I talk a bit about how to spot reposted things.

My plans for the day are to take a bath with my first ever bath bomb (!), a pot of tea, candles burning, and a Dan Brown book.

Later I’m hoping to string up some wing feathers from a dead bird I found and hang it from the offering tree in the forest.

I also plan on playing around with a new photography tool I was gifted by finding beautiful things in the forest, and hopefully find some animal tracks for my assignment. 

southern-wilde:

heatherwitch:

Me: “Please put effort into research, and I’ll help you out once you’ve tried and need some extra guidance or clarification!” 

Witchblr: “gAsp! You uppity witch” (to quote the tag)

Anyways here’s the original post [X], here’s the more eloquently worded version [X] and I stand by what I was saying. Learning requires research, and it’s not my job to do ALL of it for you, but I love helping out! Especially since witchcraft is a very fluid and individual thing, what I think are the best resources may not be the best ones for you so it’s important to explore! 

And those of you who actually follow me know that I frequently tag resources for people to use in their research and create posts if enough people have the same questions 🙂 And I love getting asks, don’t let this deter you! 

It’s not hard to comprehend that she wants people to at /least/ give Google a good try or two. “Just say you don’t want asks lol” <– just say you’re too lazy to do your own damn research and stop being a prick. 

Fucking hell.

Thank you for sharing in my saltiness and thank you to everyone who’ve left lovely comments! It’s nice to know that I don’t come across like this to the people who actually know me and follow my blog and I need that sweet validation sometimes.