Carnivorous health products

swords

• Aug 25, 2008

• #1

Yeah, I know, I spend way too much time on Ebay here's some herbal health products made from Drosera plants I found while looking at plants:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Heel-Drosera-Ho...oryZ1279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Heel-Drosera-Ho...oryZ1279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Boericke-Tafels...oryZ1279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/DROSERA-ROT-Sun...oryZ1279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I came across an ad for Cypredium orchid medicine as well but misplaced the link.

Swords Public Service Announcement:
Before anyone decides to start an argument, I'm only posting these cos I thought it was weird, I'm not ordering any and I'm not advocating it

 

Capensis

• Aug 25, 2008

• #2

And the fluids of an unopened Nepenthes pitcher supposedly help rashes and what not.

 

Drosera36

• Aug 25, 2008

• #3

Yeah I was in CA one time and went into this like health food store thing, and they had a big wall of plant remedies, and one of them was D. rotundifolia. I was pretty surprised when I saw that. Can't remember what it was for tho...

-Ben

 

swords

• Aug 25, 2008

• #4

One of the products I linked was D. Rotundifolia tablets for cough & mucus relief. The others don't say what their use is for.

 

SirKristoff

• Aug 27, 2008

• #5

Yeah, my gf's grandmother had a book of herbs. and listed is Drosera Rotundifolia, and Sarracenia Purpurea.

 

BigBella

• Aug 27, 2008

• #6

SirKristoff said:

Yeah, my gf's grandmother had a book of herbs. and listed is Drosera Rotundifolia, and Sarracenia Purpurea.

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I had also heard that Pinguicula leaves had been used at one time or another to enzymatically curdle milk in the making of cheese products (a "folkier" version of rennet, I suppose) . . .

 

nightsky

Lover of Mountains

• Aug 27, 2008

• #7

That last one - Drosera Rot - um, think I'll pass!