Q&A: What Supplements are good for joint pain?

Question by john z: What Supplements are good for joint pain?
I just finished my 5th week back in the gym after a 6 or 7 year layoff. Everything has been going great till my right elbow started getting real tender. I figure it is just my joints not being use to the type of stress I putting them under. Curious what type of supplements strengthen joints.

Best answer:

Answer by John
SuperCissus RX made by USP Labs is good. You can get it at GNC for 30 dollars a bottle I think. GNC will let you take it back for a full refund if you try it and don’t like it. I’d go for it

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Cool Chronic Pain Diary images

A few nice chronic pain diary images I found:

Migraine Pain Chart


Image by tudedude
A simple migraine pain Indicator chart to go in your migraine diary. I always find it difficult to explain where the pain is, so with this you can circle the ones that apply.

The Computer in Society – April 1965 … Feeling Artificial Fingers — Amazing Israeli Medical Breakthroughs (June 6, 2012 / 16 Sivan 5772) …


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Dr. Yosi Shacham-Diamand of Tel Aviv University led a team of scientists that figured out a way to attach sensors from an artificial hand to a patient’s nerves. Robin af Ekenstam, a young Swedish musician who had lost his right hand to cancer, was the first to be fitted with this special artificial hand.

After using it for several months, Mr. Ekenstam told Swedish TV that it felt like a real hand: “When I grab something hard, then I can feel it in the fingertips, which is strange, as I don’t have them anymore. It’s fantastic.”

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Amazing Israeli Medical Breakthroughs
Modern Israeli inventions are giving handicapped people new hope
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June 6, 2012 / 16 Sivan 5772
by Yvette Alt Miller

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We all appreciate the feeling of a fresh breeze on our faces, the feeling of freedom as we take a jog or a walk. For too many people, however, injury or disease can make the joys of unimpaired movement a distant dream.

Here are some amazing Israeli medical breakthroughs that are helping people overcome their limitations today.

—–Miraculous Marathon

Claire Lomas walked the London Marathon, beginning on the marathon date, April 21, 2012. Her time was slow: 16 days, to be exact. But her feat electrified all of Britain, for this 32 year old mother has been paralyzed from the chest down since a horse riding accident in 2007.

Ms. Lomas was able to walk the 26-mile course using a revolutionary new body suit, the ReWalk, developed by medical researcher Dr. Amit Goffer in Israel. The ReWalk works by providing support to enable paralyzed wearers remain upright. It then senses minute changes in pressure and direction in the wearer, and responds by mimicking the movements they indicate. Patients wearing the ReWalk can sit and stand, walk, and even climb stairs. israel21c.org/social-action-2/rewalking-her-way-to-the-fi…

—–Mind Over Matter

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Whereas the ReWalk amplifies slight body movements of the wearer, another Israeli invention allows paralyzed people to become more self-sufficient with no physical input at all.

Doctors in US are currently testing a robotic arm designed by the Israeli bio-tech company BrainGate, which has allowed a woman who was paralyzed by a stroke 15 years ago to take a sip of coffee from a robotically-controlled “arm”. She controls the arm using sensors implanted in her brain. Click here to watch a video of this feat.

Sensors are placed in the brains of patients in the trials, which then detect the area of the brain in which activity – thought – is occurring. Patients imagine moving their own bodies, and this sends electronic signals from the sensors to robotic arms which then mimic the desired movement. One man enrolled in the BrainGate trial reported "I just imagined moving my own arm and [the robotic] arm moved where I wanted it to go.”

Related Article: Israel Inside

—–“Seeing” with Sound

Israeli researcher Dr. Amir Amedi, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has developed a way to let blind people “see” using sound. This non-invasive invention consists of a computer mounted on glasses, connected to stereo speakers. The speakers interpret visual data into sound cues. After a brief training sessions, users learn to use these sophisticated sound cues to navigate.

Remarkably, magnetic resonance imaging scans show that the brain waves of people wearing this invention closely mimic those of people who are actually seeing: Dr. Amedi’s glasses enable blind people to sense the location of objects, and even to read words.

This research follows Dr. Amedi’s previous breakthrough: his invention of a high-tech replacement of the traditional seeing-eye cane. Dubbed the “yes-eye-cane” cane, this cellphone-sized device uses sonar to estimate the distance of objects. The cane can tell users how big objects are, how far away they are, and can even tell the difference between a frowning face and a smiling one. It functions at distances traditional canes can’t, both very far away and extremely close, and can retain a charge for 12 hours.

Researchers who worked on this revolutionary new aide reported being able to navigate mazes with it after a short training period. www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=226026

—–Smelling Success

Scientists at Israel’s celebrated Weitzman Institute have built sensors that allow paralyzed people to operate wheelchairs and communicate using only their sense of smell.

The sense of smell doesn’t depend on nerves routed through the spinal cord, and thus is usually unaffected even in cases of severe trauma resulting in paralysis. Israeli researchers Noam Sobel and Anton Plotkin realized they could measure minute changes in pressure inside patients’ noses as they smelled different scents, and translates this into an electric charge. This has allowed people who are totally paralyzed to move wheelchairs, write computer code, and even play video games.

The successfully tested their groundbreaking invention in the Levinstein Rehabilitation Hospital in the Israeli town of Ranana. One patient, who had been paralyzed for ten years, was able to communicate for the first time since her stroke-induced paralysis, and write e-mails to her grandchildren using this technology.

—–Letting (Diabetic) Kids be Kids

Diabetic children have experienced remarkable new freedoms at an experimental summer camp in Israel. At the Schneider Children’s Medical Center in the Israeli town of Petach Tikva, researchers from around the world collaborated under the leadership of Israeli researcher Dr. Moshe Phillip on the world’s first trial of an artificial pancreas.

The children in the study swam, played sports, and enjoyed summer camp unencumbered by insulin injections and glucose monitoring. Insulin levels were monitored by staff remotely, and the children’s insulin was delivered through insulin pumps. For the duration of the camp, at least, participants were able to forget they had diabetes while experiencing superior levels of insulin control at the same time.

—–Helping Bodies Heal Themselves

Many elderly and seriously ill patients can develop chronic wounds, which resist healing for months or even years, rendering them chronic patients, plagued by pain. A new Israeli invention, currently in trials, helps the body to heal itself of this serious medical condition.

“CureXCell” was invented by Dr. David Danon of the Israeli national blood service, and is being commercially developed by the Petach-Tikvah based company MacroCure. The medicine uses white blood cells, which are usually discarded from donated blood, and introduces these white blood cells into the vicinity of chronic wounds. This helps stimulate healing. For the first time, patients with chronic wounds have the potential to heal from this debilitating condition.

—–Feeling Artificial Fingers

Prosthetic limbs have been around since ancient times, but Israeli scientists have recently found a way to connect a connect a prosthetic hand to a patients’ brain, allowing not only movement but also feeling.

Dr. Yosi Shacham-Diamand of Tel Aviv University led a team of scientists that figured out a way to attach sensors from an artificial hand to a patient’s nerves. Robin af Ekenstam, a young Swedish musician who had lost his right hand to cancer, was the first to be fitted with this special artificial hand. After using it for several months, Mr. Ekenstam told Swedish TV that it felt like a real hand: “When I grab something hard, then I can feel it in the fingertips, which is strange, as I don’t have them anymore. It’s fantastic.”

Click here to watch a video of Mr. Ekenstam using this remarkable hand. It’s a sad commentary that Israel is often denied credit for its amazing medical breakthroughs due to anti-Israel bias. This video, produced by Britain’s BBC news service, goes out of its way to avoid mentioning Israeli involvement in this ground-breaking invention.
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Chickweed,Stellaria media …#4

A few nice best bed for lower back pain images I found:

Chickweed,Stellaria media …#4


Image by Vietnam Plants & America plants
Taken in Hewitt, Texas

Cây C? Gà ( Chickweed ) có th? tr? ???c b?nh v? d? ?ng da , ng?a da , ?m ??t da . Nó có hi?u qu? ch?m d?t c?n ng?a trong khi nh?ng loài khác ph?i ch?u thua.

Chickweed has a very long history of herbal use, being particularly beneficial in the external treatment of any kind of itching skin condition. It has been known to soothe severe itchiness even where all other remedies have failed.

Vietnamese named : Tinh Th?o ( các nhà hóa h?c ?ã ??t tên nh? v?y ). Tên Chickweed tôi ngh? g?i là C? gà thì nghe dân dã h?n.
Common names : Common Chickweed, Chickenwort, Craches, Maruns, Winterweed.
Scientist name : Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Synonyms : Alsine media L. , Stellaria Apetala Ucria ex Roem.
Family : Caryophyllaceae ( Pink family ).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Core eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Genus:Stellaria
Species:S. media

**** www.bachkhoatrithuc.vn/encyclopedia/4669-4669-63393188701…
CÁCH THU HO?CH VÀ CH? BI?N D??C TH?O T? THIÊN NHIÊN

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**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=STME2
**** www.arkive.org/common-chickweed/stellaria-media/
**** www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/steme.htm
**** www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail149.php
**** www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/s/stellaria-media=chi…

**** www.kingdomplantae.net/chickweed.php

Chickweed is another plant of Eurasian origin that’s made itself quite at home in the States and everywhere else that European people have traveled. It is now a common weed almost world-wide. Chickweed is an annual, but is somewhat unusual in that it often germinates in the fall (though it also germinates year-round), and hangs on through the winter, flowering and setting seed in the early spring, and dying off by summer. It’s at its best in the spring and fall, as it greatly prefers cool and damp conditions, and will not survive where it’s dry and hot.

This is a plant I looked everywhere for, and finally found in growing in embarrassing profusion along the north side of my house. Of course, now I see it all over. In spring and fall, before other plants get started, or after they’ve died or gone dormant, it grows right out in the open, and will generally appear in any sunny area of bare, moist, rich, soil. In summer, it’s more at home in cooler, partly shaded places, often provided by other plants. I find it most frequently in gardens, flower beds, and lawns.

Chickweed has shallow, fibrous, fragile roots. It’s easy to uproot accidentally, but will quickly recover if put back. The plant’s weak stems mostly trail along the ground (for up to about sixteen inches), but the growing ends may be upright (up to eight inches high). The stems branch very frequently and take root at the leaf junctions. If you look very closely at the stems, you’ll see a single line of hairs running up the side, and you’ll notice that the line changes sides at each leaf junction. The leaves are opposite, smooth, and oval (with a point at the tip), and the older leaves are stalked, while the new leaves are not.

Chickweed is just about always flowering, except in the dead of winter. It has tiny white flowers, about a quarter inch in diameter, in the leaf axils or in terminal clusters, with five deeply notched petals that look like ten, and five green sepals that are longer than the petals. The flowers close at night and open in the morning. They also close when it’s about to rain. Possibly they respond to changes in air pressure. It does seem that the flowers don’t open at all when a low pressure system is lingering. Chickweed also reacts to nightfall by folding its leaves over the growing tip to protect it.

The flowers develop into small capsule-like fruits which contain many tiny seeds (up to 15,000 per plant). The seeds generally germinate within a few years, but can remain viable for much longer.

Chickweed is generally used as food. I often nibble on it when I’m out in the yard. It has a mild, refreshing flavor. The leaves and stems can be added to salads, cooked as greens, or added to anything you might add greens to (which, to me, is just about everything). Just don’t cook it for more than a few minutes. Chickweed is particularly high in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and mucilage, and also provides rutin, para amino benzoic acid (PABA), gamma linolenic acid (GLA, an omega-6 fatty acid derivative), niacin, riboflavin (B2), thiamin (B1), beta carotene (A), magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, sodium, selenium, and silicon. The seeds are also edible. The plant can be dried for storage. Chickweed is a fairly safe food, however, as almost everything is somehow toxic if you use enough of it, over-consumption of this plant may give you diarrhea.

Medicinally, chickweed is tonic, diuretic, demulcent, expectorant, and mildly laxative. It’s often recommended for asthma, bronchitis, or congestion. It’s also said to help control obesity and is an ingredient in some herbal weight loss preparations. Externally, chickweed relieves itching and inflammation and is generally soothing and moisturizing. It can be used for any minor skin infections or irritations, and is an ingredient in a number of commercial skin care products. As far as I’ve been able to discover, this common plant has yet to be thoroughly scientifically studied.

However, the benefits ascribed to chickweed may simply be the result of its high nutritional value, especially the presence of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). The medicinal effects of this fatty acid read much like the values ascribed to chickweed. GLA is recommended for a variety of skin problems, for hormone imbalances as in PMS, and for arthritis. It clears congestion, controls obesity, reduces inflammation, reduces water retention, acts as tonic for the liver, and reduces the negative effects of alcohol abuse.

Chickens and many other birds love chickweed, and eat both the plants and the seeds, which is how it gets its name. If you keep birds as pets, you can feed it to them too.

Chickweed is also one of the primary targets of various broad-leaf herbicides, but as I feel rather strongly about contributing poisons to the ecosystem, I would recommend weeding instead for those people who can’t learn to like this useful little plant.

Selected References

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Niering and Olmstead
Peterson Field Guides Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, Steven Foster and James A. Duke
Peterson Field Guides Edible Wild Plants, Lee Allen Peterson
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Bradford Angier
Stalking the Healthful Herbs, Euell Gibbons
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants, Steve Brill
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America, Francois Couplan, Ph.D.
Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants, Tom Brown, Jr.
A Modern Herbal, Volume I, Mrs. M. Grieve
Weeds, Alexander C Martin

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaria_media

Uses

Stellaria media is edible and nutritious, and is used as a leaf vegetable, often raw in salads. It is one of the ingredients of the symbolic dish consumed in the Japanese spring-time festival, Nanakusa-no-sekku.

Folklore

The plant has uses in folk medicine. For example, 17th century herbalist John Gerard recommended it as a remedy for mange. Modern herbalists mainly prescribe it for skin diseases, and also for bronchitis, rheumatic pains, arthritis and period pain.[citation needed] A poultice of chickweed can be applied to cuts, burns and bruises.[citation needed] Not all of these uses are supported by scientific evidence.

Distribution and Identification

Stellaria media is widespread in North America from the Brooks Range in Alaska to all points south within North America. There are several closely related plants referred to as chickweed, but which lack the culinary and medicinal properties of plants in the genus Stellaria. Plants in the genus Cerastium are very similar in appearance to Stellaria and are in the same family (Carophyllaceae). Stellaria media can be easily distinguished from all other members of this family by examining the stems. Stellaria has fine hairs on only one side of the stem in a single band. Other members of the family Carophyllaceae which resemble Stellaria have hairs uniformly covering the entire stem.

Chickweed,Stellaria media …#5


Image by Vietnam Plants & America plants
Taken in Hewitt, Texas

Cây C? Gà ( Chickweed ) có th? tr? ???c b?nh v? d? ?ng da , ng?a da , ?m ??t da . Nó có hi?u qu? ch?m d?t c?n ng?a trong khi nh?ng loài khác ph?i ch?u thua.

Chickweed has a very long history of herbal use, being particularly beneficial in the external treatment of any kind of itching skin condition. It has been known to soothe severe itchiness even where all other remedies have failed.

Vietnamese named : Tinh Th?o ( các nhà hóa h?c ?ã ??t tên nh? v?y ). Tên Chickweed tôi ngh? g?i là C? gà thì nghe dân dã h?n.
Common names : Common Chickweed, Chickenwort, Craches, Maruns, Winterweed.
Scientist name : Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Synonyms : Alsine media L. , Stellaria Apetala Ucria ex Roem.
Family : Caryophyllaceae ( Pink family ).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Core eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Genus:Stellaria
Species:S. media

**** www.bachkhoatrithuc.vn/encyclopedia/4669-4669-63393188701…
CÁCH THU HO?CH VÀ CH? BI?N D??C TH?O T? THIÊN NHIÊN

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**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=STME2
**** www.arkive.org/common-chickweed/stellaria-media/
**** www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/steme.htm
**** www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail149.php
**** www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/s/stellaria-media=chi…

**** www.kingdomplantae.net/chickweed.php

Chickweed is another plant of Eurasian origin that’s made itself quite at home in the States and everywhere else that European people have traveled. It is now a common weed almost world-wide. Chickweed is an annual, but is somewhat unusual in that it often germinates in the fall (though it also germinates year-round), and hangs on through the winter, flowering and setting seed in the early spring, and dying off by summer. It’s at its best in the spring and fall, as it greatly prefers cool and damp conditions, and will not survive where it’s dry and hot.

This is a plant I looked everywhere for, and finally found in growing in embarrassing profusion along the north side of my house. Of course, now I see it all over. In spring and fall, before other plants get started, or after they’ve died or gone dormant, it grows right out in the open, and will generally appear in any sunny area of bare, moist, rich, soil. In summer, it’s more at home in cooler, partly shaded places, often provided by other plants. I find it most frequently in gardens, flower beds, and lawns.

Chickweed has shallow, fibrous, fragile roots. It’s easy to uproot accidentally, but will quickly recover if put back. The plant’s weak stems mostly trail along the ground (for up to about sixteen inches), but the growing ends may be upright (up to eight inches high). The stems branch very frequently and take root at the leaf junctions. If you look very closely at the stems, you’ll see a single line of hairs running up the side, and you’ll notice that the line changes sides at each leaf junction. The leaves are opposite, smooth, and oval (with a point at the tip), and the older leaves are stalked, while the new leaves are not.

Chickweed is just about always flowering, except in the dead of winter. It has tiny white flowers, about a quarter inch in diameter, in the leaf axils or in terminal clusters, with five deeply notched petals that look like ten, and five green sepals that are longer than the petals. The flowers close at night and open in the morning. They also close when it’s about to rain. Possibly they respond to changes in air pressure. It does seem that the flowers don’t open at all when a low pressure system is lingering. Chickweed also reacts to nightfall by folding its leaves over the growing tip to protect it.

The flowers develop into small capsule-like fruits which contain many tiny seeds (up to 15,000 per plant). The seeds generally germinate within a few years, but can remain viable for much longer.

Chickweed is generally used as food. I often nibble on it when I’m out in the yard. It has a mild, refreshing flavor. The leaves and stems can be added to salads, cooked as greens, or added to anything you might add greens to (which, to me, is just about everything). Just don’t cook it for more than a few minutes. Chickweed is particularly high in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and mucilage, and also provides rutin, para amino benzoic acid (PABA), gamma linolenic acid (GLA, an omega-6 fatty acid derivative), niacin, riboflavin (B2), thiamin (B1), beta carotene (A), magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, sodium, selenium, and silicon. The seeds are also edible. The plant can be dried for storage. Chickweed is a fairly safe food, however, as almost everything is somehow toxic if you use enough of it, over-consumption of this plant may give you diarrhea.

Medicinally, chickweed is tonic, diuretic, demulcent, expectorant, and mildly laxative. It’s often recommended for asthma, bronchitis, or congestion. It’s also said to help control obesity and is an ingredient in some herbal weight loss preparations. Externally, chickweed relieves itching and inflammation and is generally soothing and moisturizing. It can be used for any minor skin infections or irritations, and is an ingredient in a number of commercial skin care products. As far as I’ve been able to discover, this common plant has yet to be thoroughly scientifically studied.

However, the benefits ascribed to chickweed may simply be the result of its high nutritional value, especially the presence of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). The medicinal effects of this fatty acid read much like the values ascribed to chickweed. GLA is recommended for a variety of skin problems, for hormone imbalances as in PMS, and for arthritis. It clears congestion, controls obesity, reduces inflammation, reduces water retention, acts as tonic for the liver, and reduces the negative effects of alcohol abuse.

Chickens and many other birds love chickweed, and eat both the plants and the seeds, which is how it gets its name. If you keep birds as pets, you can feed it to them too.

Chickweed is also one of the primary targets of various broad-leaf herbicides, but as I feel rather strongly about contributing poisons to the ecosystem, I would recommend weeding instead for those people who can’t learn to like this useful little plant.

Selected References

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Niering and Olmstead
Peterson Field Guides Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, Steven Foster and James A. Duke
Peterson Field Guides Edible Wild Plants, Lee Allen Peterson
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Bradford Angier
Stalking the Healthful Herbs, Euell Gibbons
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants, Steve Brill
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America, Francois Couplan, Ph.D.
Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants, Tom Brown, Jr.
A Modern Herbal, Volume I, Mrs. M. Grieve
Weeds, Alexander C Martin

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaria_media

Uses

Stellaria media is edible and nutritious, and is used as a leaf vegetable, often raw in salads. It is one of the ingredients of the symbolic dish consumed in the Japanese spring-time festival, Nanakusa-no-sekku.

Folklore

The plant has uses in folk medicine. For example, 17th century herbalist John Gerard recommended it as a remedy for mange. Modern herbalists mainly prescribe it for skin diseases, and also for bronchitis, rheumatic pains, arthritis and period pain.[citation needed] A poultice of chickweed can be applied to cuts, burns and bruises.[citation needed] Not all of these uses are supported by scientific evidence.

Distribution and Identification

Stellaria media is widespread in North America from the Brooks Range in Alaska to all points south within North America. There are several closely related plants referred to as chickweed, but which lack the culinary and medicinal properties of plants in the genus Stellaria. Plants in the genus Cerastium are very similar in appearance to Stellaria and are in the same family (Carophyllaceae). Stellaria media can be easily distinguished from all other members of this family by examining the stems. Stellaria has fine hairs on only one side of the stem in a single band. Other members of the family Carophyllaceae which resemble Stellaria have hairs uniformly covering the entire stem.

Chickweed,Stellaria media …#13


Image by Vietnam Plants & America plants
Taken in Hewitt, Texas

Cây C? Gà ( Chickweed ) có th? tr? ???c b?nh v? d? ?ng da , ng?a da , ?m ??t da . Nó có hi?u qu? ch?m d?t c?n ng?a trong khi nh?ng loài khác ph?i ch?u thua.

Chickweed has a very long history of herbal use, being particularly beneficial in the external treatment of any kind of itching skin condition. It has been known to soothe severe itchiness even where all other remedies have failed.

Vietnamese named : Tinh Th?o ( các nhà hóa h?c ?ã ??t tên nh? v?y ). Tên Chickweed tôi ngh? g?i là C? gà thì nghe dân dã h?n.
Common names : Common Chickweed, Chickenwort, Craches, Maruns, Winterweed.
Scientist name : Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Synonyms : Alsine media L. , Stellaria Apetala Ucria ex Roem.
Family : Caryophyllaceae ( Pink family ).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Core eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Genus:Stellaria
Species:S. media

**** www.bachkhoatrithuc.vn/encyclopedia/4669-4669-63393188701…
CÁCH THU HO?CH VÀ CH? BI?N D??C TH?O T? THIÊN NHIÊN

____________________________________________________________

**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=STME2
**** www.arkive.org/common-chickweed/stellaria-media/
**** www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/steme.htm
**** www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail149.php
**** www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/s/stellaria-media=chi…

**** www.kingdomplantae.net/chickweed.php

Chickweed is another plant of Eurasian origin that’s made itself quite at home in the States and everywhere else that European people have traveled. It is now a common weed almost world-wide. Chickweed is an annual, but is somewhat unusual in that it often germinates in the fall (though it also germinates year-round), and hangs on through the winter, flowering and setting seed in the early spring, and dying off by summer. It’s at its best in the spring and fall, as it greatly prefers cool and damp conditions, and will not survive where it’s dry and hot.

This is a plant I looked everywhere for, and finally found in growing in embarrassing profusion along the north side of my house. Of course, now I see it all over. In spring and fall, before other plants get started, or after they’ve died or gone dormant, it grows right out in the open, and will generally appear in any sunny area of bare, moist, rich, soil. In summer, it’s more at home in cooler, partly shaded places, often provided by other plants. I find it most frequently in gardens, flower beds, and lawns.

Chickweed has shallow, fibrous, fragile roots. It’s easy to uproot accidentally, but will quickly recover if put back. The plant’s weak stems mostly trail along the ground (for up to about sixteen inches), but the growing ends may be upright (up to eight inches high). The stems branch very frequently and take root at the leaf junctions. If you look very closely at the stems, you’ll see a single line of hairs running up the side, and you’ll notice that the line changes sides at each leaf junction. The leaves are opposite, smooth, and oval (with a point at the tip), and the older leaves are stalked, while the new leaves are not.

Chickweed is just about always flowering, except in the dead of winter. It has tiny white flowers, about a quarter inch in diameter, in the leaf axils or in terminal clusters, with five deeply notched petals that look like ten, and five green sepals that are longer than the petals. The flowers close at night and open in the morning. They also close when it’s about to rain. Possibly they respond to changes in air pressure. It does seem that the flowers don’t open at all when a low pressure system is lingering. Chickweed also reacts to nightfall by folding its leaves over the growing tip to protect it.

The flowers develop into small capsule-like fruits which contain many tiny seeds (up to 15,000 per plant). The seeds generally germinate within a few years, but can remain viable for much longer.

Chickweed is generally used as food. I often nibble on it when I’m out in the yard. It has a mild, refreshing flavor. The leaves and stems can be added to salads, cooked as greens, or added to anything you might add greens to (which, to me, is just about everything). Just don’t cook it for more than a few minutes. Chickweed is particularly high in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and mucilage, and also provides rutin, para amino benzoic acid (PABA), gamma linolenic acid (GLA, an omega-6 fatty acid derivative), niacin, riboflavin (B2), thiamin (B1), beta carotene (A), magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, sodium, selenium, and silicon. The seeds are also edible. The plant can be dried for storage. Chickweed is a fairly safe food, however, as almost everything is somehow toxic if you use enough of it, over-consumption of this plant may give you diarrhea.

Medicinally, chickweed is tonic, diuretic, demulcent, expectorant, and mildly laxative. It’s often recommended for asthma, bronchitis, or congestion. It’s also said to help control obesity and is an ingredient in some herbal weight loss preparations. Externally, chickweed relieves itching and inflammation and is generally soothing and moisturizing. It can be used for any minor skin infections or irritations, and is an ingredient in a number of commercial skin care products. As far as I’ve been able to discover, this common plant has yet to be thoroughly scientifically studied.

However, the benefits ascribed to chickweed may simply be the result of its high nutritional value, especially the presence of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). The medicinal effects of this fatty acid read much like the values ascribed to chickweed. GLA is recommended for a variety of skin problems, for hormone imbalances as in PMS, and for arthritis. It clears congestion, controls obesity, reduces inflammation, reduces water retention, acts as tonic for the liver, and reduces the negative effects of alcohol abuse.

Chickens and many other birds love chickweed, and eat both the plants and the seeds, which is how it gets its name. If you keep birds as pets, you can feed it to them too.

Chickweed is also one of the primary targets of various broad-leaf herbicides, but as I feel rather strongly about contributing poisons to the ecosystem, I would recommend weeding instead for those people who can’t learn to like this useful little plant.

Selected References

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Niering and Olmstead
Peterson Field Guides Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, Steven Foster and James A. Duke
Peterson Field Guides Edible Wild Plants, Lee Allen Peterson
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Bradford Angier
Stalking the Healthful Herbs, Euell Gibbons
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants, Steve Brill
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America, Francois Couplan, Ph.D.
Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants, Tom Brown, Jr.
A Modern Herbal, Volume I, Mrs. M. Grieve
Weeds, Alexander C Martin

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Uses

Stellaria media is edible and nutritious, and is used as a leaf vegetable, often raw in salads. It is one of the ingredients of the symbolic dish consumed in the Japanese spring-time festival, Nanakusa-no-sekku.

Folklore

The plant has uses in folk medicine. For example, 17th century herbalist John Gerard recommended it as a remedy for mange. Modern herbalists mainly prescribe it for skin diseases, and also for bronchitis, rheumatic pains, arthritis and period pain.[citation needed] A poultice of chickweed can be applied to cuts, burns and bruises.[citation needed] Not all of these uses are supported by scientific evidence.

Distribution and Identification

Stellaria media is widespread in North America from the Brooks Range in Alaska to all points south within North America. There are several closely related plants referred to as chickweed, but which lack the culinary and medicinal properties of plants in the genus Stellaria. Plants in the genus Cerastium are very similar in appearance to Stellaria and are in the same family (Carophyllaceae). Stellaria media can be easily distinguished from all other members of this family by examining the stems. Stellaria has fine hairs on only one side of the stem in a single band. Other members of the family Carophyllaceae which resemble Stellaria have hairs uniformly covering the entire stem.

Can an 8 week old baby die from blunt force trauma with out it being due to abuse?

Question by : Can an 8 week old baby die from blunt force trauma with out it being due to abuse?
My good friend is friends with a family who lost their 8 week old. Seven months later the cops released that the death was due to blunt force trauma. My friend says there is no way! So is it possible for a baby to die of blunt force trauma with out their being abuse? I cant seem to find any information online, so i need help. Thank you all so much!

Best answer:

Answer by Bonini
Unless the baby was involved in a car accident and the damage didnt show effect until later, or likewise was accidentally dropped…I don’t see how it could have been due to anything but abuse, but who know.
I am more curious to know why it took seven months for that information to surface.

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