Milk Thistle : Magick Medicine From Mama

Again, I’m not an herbalist, but milk thistle is a plant I’ve come to know in the last few years through direct experience. It’s very abundant in the Pacific North West area. Most people avoid these plants because they are all spiney and pokey, but they are almost 100% edible and actually have amazing medicinal qualities. The entire plant is edible with the exception of the spiney prickles themselves. The leaves are a great addition to salads(make sure you remove those prickles), the seeds can be eaten – though take it easy they are POWERFUL liver cleansers. The roots too can be made into a nice earthy tasting tea, or fried up in a stir fry or even eaten raw if you’re hardcore. » Read More…
Many of you may only know this plant for the stinging sensation that it produces when you touch it, but trust me there is so much more to this amazing plant. You can eat stinging nettle much like you would steamed spinach, you can make a delicious and nutritious tea out of stinging nettle, you can make skin cream to help with eczema, it makes an amazing hair conditioner and not only that, but the stems contain fibers that can be used to produce clothing! Where I live, in the Pacific North West, this plant is quite abundant, in fact it grows like a weed and it’s not uncommon to find big fields of stinging nettle in the forest. 
Well of course I must establish first that I am no authority on the subject. that being said, I don’t put much stock in authorities anyways, and neither should you if you ever want to overcome dominator patterns in your own life relationships that are perpetuated by secret societies and groups such as “the Illuminati”…so the story goes.

