Endangered medicinal Plants

Lady Slipper

This beautiful little pink orchid is a poster child of the bigger problem.

Recently, the orders for S.H.-G for stress and migraines and seizures had to be temporarily discontinued due to the unavailability of Lady Slipper.

This is a very good reason to write about our countries ever increasing population and the destruction of forests to build.  We are at a precipice that I personally feel we need to address through restriction of land use and to close our borders.  

We cannot sustain quality of life for those who live here if we allow people to come in at the current rate.  Land of the free and taking in people was once a wonderful altruistic endeavor as we were a wide open country that needed to be populated.

That era has passed.  If we do not do something now and have a moratorium on population density in areas already to large to sustain proper living conditions we are doomed.  Our natural ability to care for ourselves will be irrevocably lost.

I love people.  I wish we could sustain the growth and taking in everyone.  Alas, we cannot.  The pending extinction of this one little plant is a harbinger of an ever increasing loss of many many plants and interdependent species. Couple it with evil like companies called Monsanto who use pesticides that kill the friendly/ non friendly insects in a manner that is just simply vile and causing destruction of our basic crops used for food.  You couple it with GMO companies who have modified plants to OWN them in patent frenzy wars to control what we eat that is killing us and our future generations.

WE ARE IN A TERRIBLE TERRIBLE condition.  We cannot let daily life cause us to be lulled to sleep on the major fronts that are careening out of control.

What can you do?  Plant native plants for your area.  Stay on top of how land use is going in your community and vote accordingly.  Stay away from plants that are not native and invasive.  Be caustious when disposing of aquarium plants and never put them into water ways as they are not native and invasive.  Louisiana is facing huge problems in lakes and fresh water ways for this very reason.  So are some east coast states.  I am sure there are more those are the ones I recall as I write this without investigating the details.  Be sure to remember our friendly bugs, like butterflys and pesticide use is rampant killing off friendlies needed for pollination like bee's!!  Learn to garden organically.  Cheaper, safer for pets and kids let alone the elderly.  TAKING CARE OF OUR PLANET ONE BACKYARD AT A TIME>  We can do this!!!   Learn to conserve water both in usage indoors as well as outdoors.

Victory gardens help save on trucking in foods.  Your purchasing dollar sets the demand and your habits are noticed by stores and such.

This beautiful little pink orchid is a poster child of the bigger problem.

Pink Lady Slipper Why Are They Disappearing? Rarely abundant, the pink lady slipper is the most common of the four lady slippers in New England. In many areas locations in which this species can be found are becoming uncommon. Deer and insect eat the flowers and leaves, but the primary reasons this plant is declining in Connecticut are:


·                     habitat loss,

·                     collecting by people who “must” have this flower in their gardens,

·                     collection for medicinal purposes, and

·                     aging of the forests.

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