The Wonders Of Wild Endive

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• Many of the medicines we are prescribed for a
  whole range of conditions are synthetic versions
  of natural products.
• An obvious example is the willow tree bark that
  was taken by the ancient Greeks two and a half
  thousand years ago to help with a number of
  ailments. We now know this product as aspirin.
• Some of the even older products are opiates that
  have been taken for thousands of years and even
  helped the British Empire grow as they legally
  traded in opium to China.

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• Anaesthetics are by-products of opiates and
  penicillin that has saved the lives of millions
  over the last century is a bacterium.
• So it should not come as a surprise to find there
  are plenty more naturally occurring products that
  are still taken to help with good health. In
  particular many are aimed at restoring and
  maintaining a healthy gut.
• Problems in the digestive system can cause any
  number of ailments. In fact, many health
  professionals believe that all illness stems from
  problems in this part of the body.
• Early humans are referred to as hunter-gatherers.
  They were mostly nomads following the season to
  gather food whether game or plants. In the full
  time of our existence agriculture is relatively
  very recent.

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• After generations of trying everything that grew
  wild the human race learnt what was edible and
  what was poison. Think of the people that
  whittled down the small number of edible fungi
  with some dying for the cause.
• As time passed it must have become gradually
  known that certain wild plants were good for
  particular conditions. Some plants such as
  bayberry offered great relief to certain
  digestion difficulties but only some of the plant
  and not the poisonous part.
• The good in this plant was extracted and offered
  as a health supplement but it was recently banned
  in the EU presumably because some suits decided
  they didnt know what part of the plant was
  poisonous so chucked it all out.

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• Luckily there is another plant that has also been
  eaten for thousands of years in warmer parts of
  the world and this is one of the wild endive
  family. Endive has various names in different
  countries and the cultivated one is the small
  pointed green salad found in good greengroceries.
• Part of the wild endive has been used to help a
  number of digestive issues for a long time but if
  you want to know why its OK to sell this and not
  the banned plant youll have to write to Brussels
  and wait for a reply. But dont hold your breath.
• Those ancients took a lot of risks to eliminate
  poisonous plants and seek out the healthy ones
  but there may be another aspect to this.

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• Bacteria in our gut is essential to digestion and
  immune system building. Is it just a coincidence
  that when the plants were pulled from the ground
  and unwashed just eaten and that soil is richer
  in bacteria than virtually any other part of the
  planet?

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