Clematis occidentalis,
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| Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis comes from the Greek clem, meaning “vine”. Occidentalis comes from the Latin occidens and means “of the west”, so western clematis, family Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family Cascadia purple clematis, rock clematis, Cascadia virgins-bower. A woody trailing, creeping, climber, perennial vine with stems woody, smooth and wet at the base growing as long as up to 12 feet, winding up and over and around. Investigating all the nooks and crannies of the forest, clematis is smelling, looking, tasting sniffing, and combines it all, takes it all in to produce an acrid, hot burning taste.
It will acquire much later during mid summer moon the familiar to all of us, Ranunculacea crowsfoot, trifoliate leaf. For now it's leaves are hot and burning acrid and said to be poisonous. In the tradition that captivates us it's used for those extreme headaches people get and acquire and then probably spread via some electral viral exchange, i call them hot wind burning headache, from an internal dryness. Dust and bright sun, with spinning and nausea.
You know like the calf cramps you get that wake you up, and your rolling and grabbing your calf, only it's a muscular cramp in your head, the skull muscle, located between your ears. Head cramps deprive the brain of spinal fluid and blood, just like calf cramps, but between the ears. Vinca major purple periwinkle can help especially if the blood becomes too pressured.
When the blood becomes thick and sludgy it's called pressured blood which can then go even further to what's known as higher~tension. These can all lead to tensing the large muscles of the brain. It's often said the brain is the largest muscle in the body and probably more important than many. So you don't want to pressure it too much because it's likely to cramp. So you can twist some Purple cascadia clematis leaves and do a fresh nasal leaf snuff like we do with yarrow for nose bleed, for between the ears muscle spasm and cramp which comes out feeling like the more accurate scientific medical term headache.
Or FPT above ground leaf stem and flower
1:2 in 75% alcohol
Or DPT above ground 1:5 in 40% tequila, take a little bit if coming up with between the ear muscle cramps, and drink plenty of water, when you're dry, your blood thickens into bone broth jello, which can make it even worse. Cascadia purple clematis is good stuff when you use it right, and at the right time. Like they say, "Timing is everything."
Like Anemone, Actea rubra, aconite, and similar has some of the sharp burning sensation of the mouth as other Clematis and the Anemone or wind flower in this Ranunculaceae, crows foot family. As i told you earlier while with Emma at milky river,
https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2017/04/emmas-sheep-house-teaching-milky-river.html?m=1
Emma's Sheep House Teaching along Milky River, "Just at that point i felt a headache coming on from the continuous drying, dusty wind, that had been blowing all day. I chewed on some clematis leaves climbing up the gamble oak, and placed dried leaves in my nose. The headache went away shortly. The leaves have a peppery sharp taste, slightly burning taste reminiscent of placing your tongue on dying nine volt battery. Not as sharp as pulsatilla, yet there. Taste is a way of understanding plants. Like many Ranunculacae, clematis have powerful acrid peppery-hot alkaloids. The plants of the buttercup, crow foot family have emerged from pre-existence already containing this medicine. We came together to this place for similar reasons, to engage with one another in a good way. Speaking together in a good way, expressing good news to one another: is our destiny. We knew one another previously. We are recollecting, remembering, renewing pastly made promises."
