Hi SDI, I thought I would pass on a (true) story for you, for narrative interest, as I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on tv, but I was once a sick mother with a child with a weak heart.
When my daughter was born, she was quite premature, and so her heart wasn't fully developed and would stop beating occasionally, and we'd have to rub her chest to remind it, though there wasn't anything else wrong with it, otherwise. I had lots of circulatory system damage from pre-eclampsia. My stepdad was diagnosed with cancer while I was in the hospital on bed rest, and nobody could tell me because the stress would kill me, and he died shortly after we got out (he did get to hold the baby once, first, though).
One day a couple months later, as I was walking with the baby asleep in a wrap, and generally feeling miserable on a number of levels, I came upon an old woman harvesting hawthorn flower and leaves. She was dressed very oddly, though sometimes people here do. Sometimes, they are not people.
And I said that I saw that tree all the time, and wondered if the berries were edible - what was it used for?
She gave me a disconcertingly knowing, but very kindly, look, and said that a tea or tincture of all parts were used to cure broken hearts. My herbal medicine encyclopedia also told me that trials have shown teas and tinctures of the flowers and leaves to do just that (with a bunch of disclaimers about checking for interactions with other medicines), and also be a galactologue that increases healthy milk fat, as well, though no one has ever tested the berries on babies and lactating mothers, so only their fathers/husbands should probably take those.
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Date: 2023-04-15 10:46 pm (UTC)When my daughter was born, she was quite premature, and so her heart wasn't fully developed and would stop beating occasionally, and we'd have to rub her chest to remind it, though there wasn't anything else wrong with it, otherwise. I had lots of circulatory system damage from pre-eclampsia. My stepdad was diagnosed with cancer while I was in the hospital on bed rest, and nobody could tell me because the stress would kill me, and he died shortly after we got out (he did get to hold the baby once, first, though).
One day a couple months later, as I was walking with the baby asleep in a wrap, and generally feeling miserable on a number of levels, I came upon an old woman harvesting hawthorn flower and leaves. She was dressed very oddly, though sometimes people here do. Sometimes, they are not people.
And I said that I saw that tree all the time, and wondered if the berries were edible - what was it used for?
She gave me a disconcertingly knowing, but very kindly, look, and said that a tea or tincture of all parts were used to cure broken hearts. My herbal medicine encyclopedia also told me that trials have shown teas and tinctures of the flowers and leaves to do just that (with a bunch of disclaimers about checking for interactions with other medicines), and also be a galactologue that increases healthy milk fat, as well, though no one has ever tested the berries on babies and lactating mothers, so only their fathers/husbands should probably take those.