Quote: backwards7 said: A few years ago I read a load of books about foraging for food in the wild. There are plants that you can eat raw, but some need to be cooked first in order to break down harmful compounds. Others have parts that are edible, while other bits are poisonous. It’s tremendously dangerous to go picking leaves at random and then mixing them together. Possibly what you drank had some kind of mild amphetamine effect.
I think so as well.
Quote: Is this Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome a hard thing to live with or is it something that stays under the radar most of the time?
It's not at all hard to live with, since it rarely causes me problems. Only once over the last 20 years has it ever been serious, and that was when I drank that tea concoction as I described above. My sister, who is a registered nurse, has given me information on the surgery that I could have to get rid of WPW, but as it hasn't been life-threatening I haven't had a reason to have the surgical procedure done.
Quote: I’ve never had the courage of my convictions to go gathering food from the wild; you’re placing a lot of faith in the guidebook that you use and also in your own abilities to correctly identify a plant. I’d love to harvest wild mushrooms, but you can pick out any two guides on the subject and the artist’s renderings of the same plant will look completely different, which doesn’t inspire a great deal of confidence.
Yes, and that's the last time I've tried something like that (with the exception of some magic mushrooms I tried when I was working as a landscaper).
Quote: I’ve often thought about growing herbs such as mint, which I could use to make fresh mint tea.
In The Guardian this weekend there was an article about a Liquorice tea flavoured with spices. The author described the taste as being more like a shape than a flavour.
