ECHINACEA - A PHOTO SHOOT WITH A WONDERFUL WILD FLOWER
The beauty of a helpful herb in its natural environment.
There is such a joy with using raw plants for food and medicine. Many of them have been provided with incredible properties to both nourish our bodies and keep them healthy. I think that far too often the "medical industry" just isolates one helpful part of a plant, or makes a lame imitation, and then encapsulates it in sugar or some other negative substance before attempting to offer it up as "medicine."
I'd rather head out to the fields or woods instead of the hospital or pharmacy any day. The beauty of observing helpful herbs in their natural environment is an incredible experience. While checking out some local wild Echinacea, I thought that perhaps I would take the opportunity to take some photos. This is easier said than done though.
For the most part, the flowers just sit there. They are full of tiny imperfections and are even wilting slightly in the heat of the midday sun...
A wilting Echinacea flower can resemble a jellyfish, but there is not too much further to go from there.
Some close-up macro-photography can also look cool, but this flower head is round, and looks the same from each of the 360 degrees...
A LITTLE FRIEND TO THE RESCUE!!!
Soon, a little friend shows up. Just like flowers can make some of the most beautiful medicines and health boosters, butterflies can make some of the most beautiful pollinators. Now we have a photo shoot!
I hope you liked the post, and yeah, I put a "live" one in there too! You can use this post as some sort of philosophy for life too. (I think if you look hard enough, there must be a deeper meaning.)
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-echinacea
Until next time…
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Great pics @papa-pepper. I have a bunch of these in my yard and never considered taking pics of them.
Take some, even make a post. Have fun with it, I would upvote it!
Bro thank you for the encouragement. I always over think it when it comes to making a post. I need to get out of my comfort zone and just start putting myself out there without over thinking it.
Thanks again!
Glad that you find it encouraging. Just do what you like to do, have fun with it, and make some posts. If you enjoy what you are doing others may too!
Anyways, if you make a post about things, then you have the opportunity to get noticed, followed, paid, etc. Enjoy it man!
Thank you brother for taking the time to reply. You are right the most important piece to this puzzle is to make sure I'm having fun!
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People are not going to like this approach. It will be considered spam and perhaps even downvoted.
Really :-O
great pictures. what camera did you use?
A CANON Vixia.
Great photos, Papa! One of the common names for this plant is the "Coneflower". That should get some of the Potheads excited! I had a few White ones in my garden at one time too.
Yup, you are correct about the Coneflower part. Thanks mate!
I take echinacea every morning and it is great...Not like that in the wild though lol.
I guess it could be worse and be like this...
Oh no!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful and meaningful post! I totally agree with you that we should rely more on the medicines nature has to offer instead of the pharmaceutical industry
Wow! Wild echinacea is super rare. In fact I think it's endangered. I grow some and use the young flower heads to make tincture that's wonderful to take right when you start feeling like you're going to get a cold. Would love to meet the wild version of the plant though.
Saw this great post and decided to comment. As a pharmacist with some good knowledge of pharmacognosy, crude drug sources especially phytomedicine are important to medicinal chemistry development.
Often times, natural sources of active compounds like this is neglected because of issues bothering on standardization.
The same plant which grows in another soil or another enviroment is not likely going to have the same strength of active ingredients. This is the major reason why synthetic version of of most active ingredients exist.
@richguy This make total sense. Even though it's obvious I never considered the differences that the soil can make. Thank you for pointing it out.
Interesting, thank you for sharing that @richguy! I can see where that would be a factor.
You are welcome the man with a good heart. I hope to see more of this type of crude drug in their natural habitat as I am following you. Gracias.
Thanks @richguy!
Welcome. I read your post where you were trying to tell people that you were not originally with a compassionate heart as now and I paused and told myself that you were bad is not important now. What is important is you have become one of the most compassionate person I have met here.
I keep saying I would love to be like you when I grow up and it is not a joke. I hate to see people suffer.
I sincerely appreciate your interaction with me here too. Many people seeing things from your point of view would not have been as gentle with me when you pointed out what you did. Thank you for that!
You are welcome. When you see humans make noise about what they have and what they are, it is always out of ignorance. We are what we are because of the mercy of God.
If we then know this, everything ought to be done from that premises that we are privilaged to be able to do them.
This consciousness would have taken away the arrogance of the world with the ills associated with it.
While you live, nothing can be as good as your life inspiring others.
I will end with this my lovely quote:
......I believe and rightly so that at the end of time, part of what would matter most would include how much our lives uplifted others.
Nice shots and helpful plant.
Thanks @team101!
I bet that butterfly has a raging immune system!!!
LOL - Very good point! I had not thought about that!
good job