Vervain

And I find that Bettany is just really fantastic for that kind of like frayed type A type person again, like kind of like workaholic type.

Do you know what I mean? And then there's Vervain, which is very, I use them in very similar ways.

Vervain is contraindicated for people in early pregnancy.

But again, it also has this kind of like upright stem.

Like someone commented on an Instagram post I did about Vervain ages ago saying that it has like sword energy, like in the tarot.

And I fucking know fuck all about the tarot, but I think that kind of like straight up energy is like really interesting because again it's like vervain is really supportive where there's like a lot of tension and in france they drink vervain like as a tea like it does you know it's not like the strongest of herbs like i think berries are just like these fucking slutty delicious things right that are just bursting with nutrients whereas these kind of smaller plants are like a little bit more subtle but i go into the constituents in the lessons um and vervain like contains like certain chemicals that have an affinity with the central nervous system and that could explain some of its actions but again it's like this wonderful sort of nerve tonic and i find it fantastic for people experiencing premenstrual tension it seems to just have like such an affinity for people where there's like a kind of hormonal clearance problem or like a kind of yeah just this like recovery from chronic stress like i really see it as like a burnout herb um okay and then there's st john's wort which is kind of like very very heavily contraindicated for people on most medications because there's like very studied mechanisms around how it affects the liver and the sort of clearance of things so it will kind of clear that medication out of your body very quickly You know, and that could have quite dramatic consequences and that as in dramatic, like as in like people can be hospitalized and stuff.

So we do have to be very careful with St. John's wort, but if anyone isn't on meds or contraception, stuff like that, like it's fucking amazing.

now from the rock tarpeian could the wanburgers spy the line of blazing villages red in the midnight sky the fathers of the city they sat all night and day for every hour some horsemen came with tidings of dismay to eastward and to westward have spread the tuscan bands nor house nor fence nor dovecote In Crustomerium stands.

Verbena down to Ostia Hath wasted all the plain.

Aster hath stormed Janiculum, And the stout guards are slain.

I wiss in all the senate There was no heart so bold, But sore it ached and fast it beat When that ill news was told.

The pastor did so: from the putrid frame, Fervent with life, swarms by the myriad came.

Fate claimed the sheep she miserably browsed; Verbena's sacred, and the wrath aroused Of rural Gods.

With instances like these, What victim could escape life penalties? Persia devotes the steed, the brave, the fleet, To Hyperion, as an offering meet.

The hind had been the substitute and sign For virgin offered at Diana's shrine; Now for herself no substitute she falls.

Bidens can take it down to 28 degrees.

Verbena, the blooming verbena.

So there's a lot of plants that you can plant now that will get you through and before you can put in your pansies and your flowering kale and cabbage.

And

I've never been.

Verbena.

Verbena's overrated.

Which ones? All.

No.

I was

like, Buenos Aires is a great plant.

Yeah, no, I just think like your standard vegetative Verbena.

She's selling, as witches in the late 90s did, all kinds of botanicals and homemade stuff.

And the name of the shop is Verbena, which I love.

It's real cute.

And she wears a whole lot of... themed kind of sage green and white clothing and that's sort of her theme for most of the rest of the movie which is another symbolic thing because then in the end we see her finally wearing flowers and it's like oh she's finally blooming again and it's a whole yeah so it's real cute but unfortunately even though this woman is grieving and her kids are also grieving other people in the town just cannot help being assholes

It's just alchemy.

I learned a lot from the Verbena and Concordia, so, you know.

Definitely want to meet

some.