The cure-all magic elixir twisted in Earth’s desire to supply her children with better health and a better wealth of knowledge about the self. For those engulfed with the ease of being in trees sprinkled with ferns, this wondrous and spectacular plant displayed with thunderous vernacular has in it, a hidden power, if consumed and devoured, to alleviate the many symptoms and stresses of being blessed with a chance to dance with the matter surrounding us. The yearn for the sacred fern, whether chewed, boiled, or burned, has its calling to us within an abundant rush of surplus blanketed in the forests that implore us to adore this. The medicinal uses derived from the life force of many classes of ferns are miraculous and demand from us a relationship of love and trust. We all can learn from the ferns. Ferns first burst forth from the Earth towards the fire in the sky in the late Devonian period. Long before the iris in your eye developed to let the light define your mind in a time roughly 360 million years before the cheers to your friends for discovering the means to the end of explanation, a fern unfurled in a fibonacci spiral. The style pteridophyta was devised m.y.a. by the predecessors in time to flourish and nourish the planet while slowly creating a dense compressed mess that is now fuel for your vehicular interest. Old as their species may be, but riddled with adaptive techniques gesturing the sapiens ingesting to avoid the ails of reality that interrupt the life of a human being.
The patterns of ferns turn the burning of light into Earth’s beautiful plight with more that 600 score living species adored by botanically trained enthusiasts from across the globe and beyond. A ferns frond filled with sporangia swiftly spiralled out to eject as a catapult launches its assault on the unsuspecting fault line between the interface of earth and the design of its birth. Seedless and spectacular needless to say is vascular or so goes the flow of phloem and xylem within them. Scheming evergreen erected triangles defined by elongated lustrous lines, clustered in bunches or solitarily lunging upward. Oval to round sori on the underside of a blade spewing spores triggered by heat or matured by time form through a union of numerous, spirally coiled, multi-flagellated sperm and neighboring, genetically differing egg specimens. Preferred by the moisture as a lure for sori to form, most ferns yearn for water to avoid the burn of the hotter weather. The shady, sheltered, soggy crevices, and boggy, with rocky swelter-less hedges provide the phylum: pteridophyta asylum from the violence of arid degenerative messes. A variety of shapes and colors, mainly green, dream of no better beauty than a ferns unfurling truly.
The human condition that intrudes in on and consumes ferns life for its own selfish vendetta of strife includes a plethora of uses to soothe themselves. It has been proven to help loosen the hypothetical noose of truths death grip on the vertebrates degeneration into decays transformation. From vermifuge insecticide to refuge from coughing through crying eyes a Maidenhair fern is worth your churning into a syrup used to alleviate the hurting. A Lady fern fiddlehead, boiled or breaded, the younger the better when harvested for pleasure. Fried in oil or baked in foil, a delicacy for those so inclined to indulge. If there is a wound you have then there is a remedy within a ferns gift. The roots boiled in oil and smeared on a wound will soothe the punishment of blood sacrifice. Awareness and spirit can be achieved with the slightly stimulating effects of a honey infused fern tea. A gentle diuretic, or for the relief from inflammation and irritations. The harts tongue fern can ease the effects of diabetes, keeps in check the weakening of liver deformities. Need a useful remedy for diarrhea or dysentery? Infuse this Harts Tongue fern in your heart for a turn. Burn the Bracken fern to ward of serpents with its smoke. Brew it’s malt into beer to give cheer to your dearest lovers. Burnt to ashes, this fern can turn to fertilization when desperate for nutrient dependent flowers and crops. Many ferns provide a topical application to aid in the healing of various wounds including scrapes, cuts, rashes or bruises. Maidenhair, Marginal Wood, Sensitive, Cinnamon, Christmas, and Bracken Ferns can all be employed as an external remedy for arthritis and internally for joint pain. Licorice Fern for tea in the morn. Smoke some Maidenhair for asthma. The list goes on and on.
The innumerable uses of the majestic fern varieties, multiplies with each new discovery of the thousands of living species on Earth today. You choose what use you can make with truth you can take. It’s a beautiful seedless vascular miracle that’s been here for many millennia constantly evolving to spread and solve problems for humans and bugs alike. Oh happy day! Amen.
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast Pojar and Mackinnon.
Raven Biology of Plants
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http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/medicinal-benefits-ferns
All Photos by Nicholas Denk
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