#sweetsop

From weeds to trees: dandelions can recognise the need for new beginnings, childlike wonder as well as wishes for something better. It can also encourage you to develop that whimsy if you don’t have it. It also has grit as it can grow in even difficult environments like concrete and with no tending.

Health-wise, a tea made of roots is diuretic and encourage waste elimination. It can reduce swellings as well, has cooling properties, and help you achieve that same mobility, lighter spirit on a physical level as well. The leaves have anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. Some are used to prevent cancer as well.

Its wild availability makes it accessible as opposed to many supplements. You don’t have to harvest nearby plants, but maybe your health and beauty routine contains some of these plants. Or you can find that something that you can’t put your finger on amongst your local plant allies.

And that logic is true for many other plants: oak, ivy, broadleaf plantain (plantago major), rose, wild lettuce, irises, jimsonweeds, water lilies, pines, thyme, lavender, aloe vera and many more.

You can look for Bach remedies’ description, Pub Med papers (National library of Medicine has tons of open-access PDFs like the Dandelion one), the description of magical or mundane items (conjure oils for Black people, incenses, folk remedies), supplements or tea brands, perfumes or even seasoning blends.

If you crave some cinnamon so you need sweetness, money and riches (it was a precious spice), love or at least healing from heart matters (both physical and emotional)? Did you have a tough breakup and need a pick-me-up?

This wisdom can even be found in things you already use: looking up their history or properties might tell you more and make you use them more conscientiously, and with intentionality. You might not need to get more, and you definitely get more out of what you already have.

Sweetsop (Annona squamosa)

Family: Sweetsop Family (Annonaceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Growing as a large bush or small tree, the Sweetsop is native to tropical regions of Central and South America but is now grown in warm, humid regions worldwide for its large, scaly-looking fruits. Sweetsop fruits (also known as Sugar Apples) are sweet, aromatic and nutritious, and their flesh is said to resemble custard in both texture and taste. A closely related species, the Soursop (Annona muricata) produces similar-looking fruits, though as the name suggests while still considered pleasant-tasting by many the flesh of the latter is considerably more sour.

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We ought to look at reality dead in the eyes, and see how arduous it really is but also not forget what we can do to ameliorate in small, cumulative ways. And major ones too.