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| Valerian scouleri lower leaves Midsommer |
Valeriana scouleri is a 1m/3 foot high perennial growing from a matted thready root mass resembling southern species we looked at earlier. It is at the north limit of range and will mix and merge into V sitchensis down the slope.
Valeriana scouleri on the underground endless medicine road show, Valeriana scouleri, is a tall perennial from a matted fibrous root complex whose root presentation is similar to V. acutiloba or V. Arizonica which we studied in other areas. We continue uninterrupted as a group on the endless medicine show. Scouleri is a 90's term and there seems to be a broader move towards sitchensis. The leaves on this bunch have triangular patterning towards the leaf edge tending towards smooth though not toothed. They have wavy leaves and doing a montane thing but the big river is down in the valley so they're doing their thing in this area.
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| Valeriana flowers |
Like actutiloba and arizonica you'll do a whole plant rather than the commerce-able big taproot stuff to get a whole plant thing going and capture the whole complex complexity nuance. Completely folk homebrew artisan comparing the grey nondescripts sold powder there is no comparison this is strictly hand to mouth subsistence herbalism.
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| roots mass with above ground |
Some people love the scent of wild valeriana and rub fresh leaf and roots on underarms and private parts, while others prefer a more petro chemical amazon google cocacola pepsi walmart standard. And of course anyone thinking a counterculture fragrance movement backed by big pharma, youtube, twitter, cosmopolitan, bank of america, and the national football league is underground is a moron. This montane high meadow montane scent sticks, stinks and permeates. Some people like it others don't. The effect of montane valeriana is variable on the person. If you're wanting xanax without a prescription just find your local ms13 at the church of circle K and buy mexican-zani bars.
Fresh valeriana is like cat nip for cats including little domestic mousers and big cats like lions. So if you have a cat they will get into it. Guaranteed when your camped you'll see glowing green translucent eyes peeking out at you from dark shadows checking out your fresh roots so beware, especially if you're sleeping with Angelica, you'll be candy man for bear and a big cat magnet.
As far as what V scouleri does, pretty much the same as the other miniature diminutive more southern relatives. In a modern medico police state, televised online doctor paint by number, nurse practitioner with an online virtual degree, connect the dots to illness diagnostic model, valeriana is a poor fit. For a person to person constitutional face to face thing, it's an important plant ally. It works best for cold types like big boned blonde germans not so much for wirey dark skin hot bloodeds. It can wake up the tiger and keep a person awake alnight. So it's important to try this plant during daylight waking hours to see how it acts. Because if it's 1:30AM, you can't sleep, you're tossing and turning and you have to be up at 5am, and you've never tried it before, best to not try it. Use something like a P. bracteosa with A. multifida 90/10 for knock out drops. It's important to understand your own racial biospirit inheritance which manifests as constitutional type when using valeriana. Since for the last 50 or 60 years biospirit has been a fundamental cultural political no-go zone to transition us to a vast consumer tele-police state, valeriana is tough to grind. Since many young people attracted to herbs are in this no-go, thought free zone it takes some subtlety to coax them into a going free grasp of plant medicines in order to nourish well being for their kind. A universal treatment thing based on diagnosis and floating disease is herbal deconstructionism. You are always treating a person, if you can't see the person, you can't facilitate healing, alterative change.
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| Stem leaf |
When valeriana is when working best it will calm and soothe, not sedate. A person will rest more effectively. For this person valeriana can be a day time anxiety relief thing, taken before awkward social situations, before intimacy during times when both partners are troubled and scattered and need to come together but are instead ripping apart that thing which nourished and brought them together and so on. On the right person it will stimulate gastric secretions, mildly potentiate heart contraction for more efficient profusion, and calm the brain. On the wrong person it will overstim the heart, you'll be all awake and dressed to the 9's with absolutely no place to go at 2:30AM. Plant, person, place, So when working with these plants it's important to know the plant in and out. You need to be able to see the person in a non-judgemental process and here let's not confuse a virtue signal with seeing the constitutional type and ongoing process, probly best that women do the people stuff and men do the plant stuff. Men tend to be just unaware of people, even that there are people, or that they are themselves, you guessed it, people. Which is why over the last 250,000 years we contracted out birthing babies, cuddly live or die breast feeding, nursing them and raising them to our vagina-ette moms, who now seem to have a monopoly on tact and herbal outreach. We all need to do the place thing, it's the nourishments of being here doing the real work.
So any way get to know your valeriana ally friends, don't keep fresh root in your tent, sleep with your glock loaded and pray for rain, blessings y'all.
