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RAGWORT
A Briefing

RAGWORT, WILL NOT GROW WHERE IT IS “MADE” NOT TO FEEL WELCOME.

Says Tony BarnerttSays Tony Barnertt

RAGWORT THOU HUMBLE FLOWER WITH TATTERED LEAVES,
I LOVE TO SEE THEE COME AND GLITTER GOLD….
THY WASTE OF SHINNING BLOSSOMS RICHLY SHIELDS,
THE SUN TANNED SWARD IN SPLENDID HUES THAT BURN
SO BRIGHT AND GLARING THAT THE VERY LIGHT
OF RICH SUNSHINE DOTH TO PALNESS TURN
AND SEEMS BUT VERY SHADOWS IN THY SIGHT

RAGWORT…SYNONMS…ST JAMES-WORT, RAGWEED, STINKING NANNY, DOG-STANDARD, CANKERWORT, STAMMERWORT.

PART USED HERB.

RAGWORT WAS FORMERLY MUCH EMPLOYED MEDICINALL FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES, THE LEAVES ARE USED IN THE COUNTRY FOR EMLLIENT POLTICES AND YEILD A GOOD GREEN DYE, NOT HOWEVER, PERMANENT.

THE FLOWERS BOILED IN WATER GIVE A FAIR YELLOW DYE TO WOOL PREVIOUSLY IMPREGNATED WITH ALUM.

THE WHOLE PLANT IS BITTER AND AROMATIC, OF AN ACRID SHARPNESS, BUT THE JUICE IS COOLING AND ASTRINGENT, AND OF USE AS A WASH IN BURNS, IMFLAMMATIONS OF THE EYE AND ALSO IN SORES AND CANCEROUS ULCERS, HENCE ONE OF ITS OLDEST NAMES CANKERWORT.

IT IS USED WITH SUCCESS IN RELIEVING RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, AND GOUT, A POULTICE OF GREEN LEAVES BEING APPLIED TO PAINFUL JOINTS AND REDUCING THE INFLAMATION AND SWELLING.

IT MAKES A GOOD GARGLE FOR ULCERATED THROAT AND MOUTH AND IS SAID TO TAKE AWAY THE PAIN CAUSED BY STING OF BEES.

A DECOCTION OF THE ROOT HAS BEEN REPUTED GOOD FOR INWARD BRUISES AND WOUNDS, IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY RAGWORT IS ACCREDITED WITH THE POWER OF PREVENTING INFECTION.

IN OLDEN DAYS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ‘A CERTAINE REMEDIE TO HELP STAGGERS IN HORSES,’ WHENCE ONE OF ITS POPULAR NAMES, STAGGERWORT, ONE OF ITS OTHER NAMES, STAMMERWORT PROBABLY INDICATES A BELIEF IN IT AS A REMEDY FOR SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.

FLUID EXTRACT, 1/2 TO 1 DRACHM.

RAGWORT IS COLLECTED IN AUGUST, CULPEPPER SAYS IT IS UNDER COMMAND OF DAME VENUS, AND CLEANSES, DIGESTS, AND DISCUSSES, IN SUSSEX IT IS CALLED RAGWEED.

SENECIO AQUATICUS (MARSH RAGWORT) IS A FORM OF S, JACOBAEA, COMMON ON THE SIDES OF RIVERS AND DITCHES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, THIS CAN GROW FREELY AT 1,500 FEET ABOVE SEA –LEVEL, IN THE LAKE DISTRICT AND RESEMBLE THE COMMON RAGWORT, BUT USUALLY OF LAXER GROWTH AND EASILY DISTINGUISHED BY IITS LESS DEVIDED, LONGER-STALKED LEAVES AND LARGER HEADS OF FLOWERS.

ALL FORMS OF THIS GENUS ARE NOT OF BENEFICIAL USE, AND ONE AT LEAST HAS LATELY BEEN FOUND TO BE DISTINCTLY HARMFUL, FOR MOLTENO DESEASE, A CATTLE AND HORSE DESEASE PREVALENT IN CERTAIN PARTS OF S,AFRICA, HAS BEE DEFINATLY TRACED TO THE PRESENCE OF A POISENOUS ALKALOID IN S,LAT,FOLIUS, A NEAR RELATIVE OF COMMON GROUNDSIL.

SOME BOTANIST REFER THE GENUS “CINERARIA” TO THE SAME ORDER AS THE SENECIO; THESE DIFFER FROM SENECIO IN THE ACHNES OF THE RAYFLORETS BEING WINGED.

THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING FLOWERING PLANTS CULTIVATED IN GREENHOUSES AS CINERARIAS BELONG (I’VE SOLD HUNDREDS IN THE PAST) HOWEVER,TO SENECIO, AND HAVE OBTAINED BY HORTICULTURISTS BY INTERCROSSING WITH EACH OTHER A NUMBER OF THE CANARY ISLAND SPECIES, SUCH AS S.POPUL.FOLIUS, S TUSSILAGINIS ETC.

FROM A REPORT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE’S CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER 1917; THE ACTIVELY POISNOUS AGENT IN THE PLANT SEEMS TO BE ONE OR TWO MORE ALKALOIDS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED IN MORE OR LESS PURE FORM FROM VARIOUS SPECEIS OF RAGWORT.

SYMPTOMS; BEING HIDE-BOUND, STAGGERING GATE, SOME APPEAR TO BE BLIND, HEEDLESS OF WHERE THEY GO, EXCITABLE AND WILL CHARGE ANYONE WHO APPROACHES THEM. SOMETIMES DIARRHOEA BUT CONSTIPATION IS SO MARKED THAT IT CAUSES VIOLENT STRAINING, WEAK PULSE, TEMPERATURES REMAINS NORMAL, AND THERE IS NO CURE!

ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE REPORTS THAT HORSES DO RECOVER, ALKALOID DOES NOT ACTUALLY ACCUMILATE IN THE LIVER AS IS THOUGHT, A BREAKDOWN PRODUCT CAN DAMAGE THE DNA AND PROGRESIVELY KILLS CELLS, ABOUT 3-7% OF THE BODY WEIGHT IS SOMETIMES CLAIMED AS DEADLY FOR HORSES, BUT AN EXAMPLE IN THE SCIENTIFIC LITARTURE EXISTS OF A HORSE SURVIVING BEING FED 20% OF ITS BODY WEIGHT.

THE EFFECT OF LOW DOSES IS LESSENED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL ALKALOIDS BY THE ACTION OF BACTERIA IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT BEFORE THEY REACH THE BLOOD STREAM.

THERE IS NO ANTIDOTE OR CURE FOR POISONING, BUT EXAMPLES ARE KNOWN FROM SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE OF HORSES MAKING A FULL RECOVERY ONCE CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN STOPPED.

MCGOVERN’S GUIDELINES ON ERADICATION.

GRAZING INFECTED AREAS WITH SHEEP IN THE WINTER AND EARLY SPRING,

CUTTING TWICE A YEAR AND BURNING.

RAGWORT IS THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF THE ISLE OF MAN, MANX NAME “CUSHAG”

NOW, THE CUSHAG, WE KNOW
MUST NEVER GROW,
WHERE FARMERS WORKS IS DONE,
BUT ALONG THE RILS,
IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS,
THE CUSHAG MAY SHINE LIKE THE SUN
WHERE THE GOLDEN FLOWERS,
HAVE FAIRY POWERS,
TO GLADDEN OUR HEARTS WITH THEIR GRACE
AND VANNIN VEG VEEN,
IN THE VALLEYS GREEN
THE CUSHAG HAS PLACE.

RAGWORT, WILL NOT GROW WHERE IT IS “MADE” NOT TO FEEL WELCOME.

ON SARCOIDS, WHICH IS “BOVINE PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND CANCER”

BVP INDUCES PAPILLOMASS OF CUTABEOUS OR MUCOSAL EPITHELIA IN CATTLE, THE PAPILLOMAS ARE BENIGN TULORS AND GENERALLY REGRESS, BUT OCCASIONALLY PERSIST AND PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR MALIGNANT TRANSFROMATION TO SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA, PARTICULARLY IN THE PRESENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COFACTORES.

THIS HAS BEEN EXPERIMENTALLY DEMONSTRATED FOR BVP -2 AND CANCER OF THE URINARY BLADDER, AND BPV-4 AND CANCER OF THE UPPER CANAL IN CATTLE FEEDING ONN BRACKEN FERN.

IN THIS REVIEW, SEVERAL ASPECTS OF BIOLOGY OF THE VIRUS ARE DESCRIBED INCLUDING VIRAL GENOME STRUCTURE, REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIRAL ONCOGENES, FUNCTION OF THE VIRAL ONCOPROTIENS, COOPERATION BETWEEN VIRUS AND CHEMICAL COFACTORE IN CARCINOGENESIS, VIRUS LATENCY AND PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPUTIC VACCNATION PROGRAMES.

BEATON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH, GLASGOW.

THE TALK ON HEADSHAKING, THIS PROBLEM IS BEING DEALT WITH BY ANN PEARSON, WHY WILL BHS NOT ASK ANN TO GIVE A SPEECH INSTEAD OF THE PROF

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Says Maureen ComberI have been given an ASBO by the Hampshire County Council for standing up for riders rights.

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