#salfige

Have the day you deserve, Anna.

Okay you say this but, and this is without bias at all lol mostly, the correct answer should have been Hera. @finelythreadedsky had an awesome reply about this forever ago and it is my favourite explanation of how fucked Paris was.

Here's an extract of the Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of France by P.V Fournier, renowned french herbalist, pp295-296)

Most woody and climbing clematis are the lianas of our flora. Neighboring Anemones, they belong like them to the Ranunculaceae family.

Their white, purple or blue flowers are made up of 4 sepals, often colored like their petals.

Their fruits grouped at the head are each prolonged, by a long style garnished with a silvery plush, so that the bushes of Clematis in the fall, are located from afar by a quantity of cottony tufts with a silver reflection.

Clematis would come from the Greek, designated among the ancients, various climbing plants. This word comes from klêma, which means branch / flexible wood.

All Clematis are very poisonous and can only be used with great care. They contain in their juice poisons still incompletely known, but similar to Anemone camphor and aconitins, causing inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes.

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[The "white-vine" clematis, clematis vitalba.]

Popular names :

Beggar's Grass, Burning Clematis, Solomon's Vine, Poor's Grass, Virgin's Cradle, Hair of the "Lady", Pipe Wood, Smoking Wood, Old Man's Beard.

Description :

- This large liana with a flexible stem of 15 to 20m, hollowed out in the length of many small holes which make it porous, is known to all the country people as "wood to smoke", coarse material of basketry, as rope or occasional tie.

- Its young grow and are sometimes eaten cooked in water instead of asparagus or are found candied in vinegar. In fact, at the start of the growth, they still have little bitterness and are still accepted by the cattle (then refused afterwards.)

Properties:

- All parts of Clematis are acrid, itchy, reddening (which dilates the veins and increases blood flow to the part of the skin it will be applied to) and blisters (which severely irritates the skin). In fact, it is almost exclusively reserved for external use, where it is shown - if it is judiciously used - detergent and antipsoric (used against scabies.)

- Inside, the plant acts as a very violent hydragogue and drastic purgative, becoming too quickly toxic for it to have ever been used commonly (other than in homeopathic doses).

Popular uses :

- Young buds and dry leaves in low doses, act as purgatives and diuretics (which promote the work of the kidneys).

- Do not exceed 3g of freshly leafy buds per 100 to 200g of water. as an infusion, taken 3 times at 1 hour intervals, acted as a strong purgative.

- Do not exceed 5 to 10g of dry leaves in 1l of boiling water for a very strong diuretic effect (which will not be suitable for sensitive natures and which is more dedicated to fight against dropsy. Dropsy is an abnormal effusion of fluid in a part of the body which eventually results in edema.)

In any mode of administration, it is necessary to start with the lowest doses and to monitor very carefully the reactions of the digestive tract 1/ and of the body in general 2/. (this little wink @echoesofthefall)

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Popular use also used Clematis against chronic skin diseases (according to the old tradition the hot cures the heat), in gout, rheumatism, joint pains, etc.

It has also been used to treat certain symptoms of syphilis, which is a mockery for a plant so often linked to the Virgin and its purity.

In the old days, beggars rubbed leaves and stems of the plant on certain parts of the body to create ulcers and inspire pity, hence the name beggar grass.

The decoction of fresh leaves is a very tonic detergent and was often used by the ancients to bring about the putrefaction of the flesh more quickly, and therefore the renewal of these so-called flesh.

Note that there are many types of species of Clematis, one which looks a lot like the white-vine clematis is the fragrant clematis, which we will call "small flame", or "flame", it is very similar to the first, if not for its smell (sweet honey like, in spring), its leaves are much more divided than the first, but its properties are identical.

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I know who that was and I chose not to address then. They were mad at me because I blocked them on Tumblr and discord.

At the time, we hadn't spoken in a couple of weeks.

I blocked them because I was dealing with a lot and my mother had recently been diagnosed with very serious cancer (which she is still battling) and that person's posts at the time were really hard and unsettling for me to read as they often portrayed someone grieving the loss of their own mom to cancer in a way that was difficult for me to see.

I did not confront them because I had no desire to control what they put on their blog but I also didn't think that it was necessarily the safest time for me to confront them directly and thought they would not take it well which they didn't as they doxed me in retaliation to being blocked -- and adding in an edit: which they didn't see for over a week, and it's not like they had been following me either when I had blocked them???.

I blocked them just to protect my peace, but I have not been in contact with them since-- also, I haven't known peace since either. :/

I was doxxed. I was accused of cursing someone (that I did not curse). I was called all sorts of things.

It was disappointing, but I guess unsurprising. And hearing about through anons and from people sending me the post really affirmed my fear of that person not handling me wanting to cease contact well at all.

Finding my first cat outside in the garden 🥰

He was a stray kitten, barely 3 months old, and was clearly not owned. He made a home for himself in my dad’s tool shed and would not leave. We could never have a cat because my sister was mildly allergic, but this stubborn man would not leave. He started bolting into the house every chance he could and my parents gave up saying no.

My house is covered in charcoal. Every time I wipe down the kitchen bench, black streaks on a seemingly clean counter. Smudges on the floors. If its not charcoal its burnt incense. A constant layer of it over my stove from where the wind blows it over.

chamomile ⇢ what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

Oh goodness umm I get really awkward with gifts. Mostly the kind that make the giftee say “I saw this and thought of you” or “I had to get this for you.”

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

My kitchen/living room is bright white with earthy colours, and my bedroom is darker with greys, dusky pinks and deep reds. Besides a few decorations in the bathrooms, they’re the only two areas I’ve truly ‘decorated’. Let me see if I have a photo I don’t mind sharing …

First of all, blegh. Visceral reaction to the word helpol lmao I can’t help it.

I was always fascinated by the Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods when I was a kid. Some of the books still on my shelf now are from then.

But I had always been an atheist.

In early 2014 as I was getting into Achievement Hunter on YouTube I stumbled across soloontherocks because they had a “recommend to watch” post, and obviously quickly discovered they were also a hellenic polytheist. I was stoked to find out the gods were still worshipped!??!? That it was a possibility???