please take everything you read online with a grain of salt. everyone’s acting like there’s a huge connection between burdock root being good for liver health and haymitch’s alcoholism, but im getting the sense most people are just regurgitating that after reading it either here or on tiktok.
burdock root is good for liver health, but that’s cos it’s an anti inflammatory and is full of antioxidants. for a liver like haymitch’s, that’s like bringing a plastic prop knife to a gun fight. from what i’ve been told in my training (and read myself), it’s a very minimal benefit. i see the connection, and it’s there, it’s just not as big as ppl make it seem. im sorry, i just personally think it’s more of a secondary nice coincidence to the asterid clade connection as opposed to a big, intentional symbolic thing.
but that’s just me.
my main issue is that i did not spend my summer holidays out doing field work whilst getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and midgies and horse flies for someone with zero sources to tell me how a plant works🙃
