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In reply to the discussion: What pseudoscience is and is not. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)I never knew of any connection to willow bark and St Sebastian before.
My heart is heavy whenever I think of the people of Afghanistan. I was priviliged to read this fabulous book written by some American or English man who had taken a tour of Afghanistan back in the fifties or sixties. And all the herbs those people grew. All the various species of plants they tended. Their land was so fragrant with spice and so abundant with foliage, and now it is barren and forsaken on account of the decades of war.
They "timed" everything in terms of the moon phases, with particular names for the moon in all the season. So a summer moon had a name, and then you knew if you should pick such and such an herb while that moon was waning or waxing, and all through the calendar there were specific instructions about how and when to plant an herb and how and when to pick it. How much everyone in Afghanistan seemed to love gardening and tending to nature.
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