I thought I scored 'mullein leaves' at the international market yesterday but whats in the package labled "Gordolobo - Mullein Leaves" is definitely not mullein. So upon a little research I find that gordolobo is a mexican herb used much like mullein. Can it be smoked I wondered and I found it was smoked for asthma releif, much like the mull. So I put a cottony tuft in a bowl on top of half burnt hash chunks. Totally smoothed out the harsh hash chunks that about killed me 10 minutes before. Little taste, very smooth. New changa base?
Gordolobo aka Sweet Everlasting aka Rabbit Tobacco aka Cudweed, Old Field Balsam, Sweet White Balsam, Indian Posy, Life of Man, Poverty Weed, Fussy Gussy, Owl's Crown
Gnaphalium spp. (commonly G. obtusiflolium)Seems it was a powerful herb for Mexican sorcerers, associated with the owl. Will it synergize with a crystally jurema extract and caapi? Soon we shall see.
some excerpts:
One of the most outstanding of the everlastings is Gnaphalium obtusifolium L., or sweet everlasting. Not only is it an everlasting but it has a beautiful scent and (most remarkable of all), this smell is spontaneously emitted, from time to time, months and years after it was dried, due to changes in the moisture of the air or barometric pressure. Standing out in a field of sweet everlasting, when the first drops of rain fall, is quite an experience: ‘What’s that smell?’ Unlike the European everlastings, which were not widely used in folk and professional medicine, sweet everlasting is an important plant in the medicine of the Indian people of eastern North America.
Sweet everlasting is a prominent inhabitant of old sandy fields and meadows in eastern North America. It was well known to the Indian people and still carries the name rabbit tobacco as testimony to their idea of its place in the universe. It is said that Rabbit, while untangling himself from a thicket, first discovered the properties of this plant as a cure for cuts. It was widely used by the Indian people – as well as Euro-Americans – for this purpose. Another story explains that Rabbit uses sweet everlasting as a tobacco to communicate with Creator, just as humans have their own kinds of tobacco. It was – and still is – used in tobacco smoking mixes by some Indian people. Yet, because of certain properties, it is avoided in smoking mixtures by others.
Sondra Boyd, R.N., Ph.D., of Erwinna, Pennsylvania, a Cherokee trained in medicine by both the Eastern and Western bands, why the plant was called ‘rabbit tobacco?’ She explained, “the old people noticed that the rabbits liked to gather where there was a lot of this plant growing, so they thought it must be their tobacco, their way of connecting to the Creator.”
Several books by modern Cherokee authors mention the use of rabbit tobacco. Paul B. Hamel and Mary U. Chiltoskey, Cherokee Plants, and their uses – a 400 year history (1975, 51), identify rabbit tobacco as Gnaphalium obtusifolium and record the following uses:
Decoction for colds; use with carolina vetch [Vicia caroliniana] for rheumatism; sweat bath for various diseases; warm liquid is blow down through through joy-pye-weed stem for clogged throat (diphtheria); ingredient in medicine for local pains, muscular cramps, and twitching; chew for sore mouth or throat;
smoalk for asthma; cough syrup.
http://www.woodherbs.com/gnaphalium.htmlAnybody familliar with this stuff?
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