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A traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, Clitoria Ternatea has been consumed for centuries as a memory enhancer, brain booster, anti-stress and calmative agent.
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Clitoria ternatea is a fast growing climber with beautiful blue and sometimes white flowers. A drought hardy plant which can be used as a fast growing screen along fences. Attracts butterflies. Considered to be pantropic in distribution with an uncertain country of origin. Fabaceae (Pea) family.
The White Butterfly Pea ( Clitoria ternatea ) is cooling, acrid, purgative, diuretic, laxative, alexiteric, anthelmintic and tonic to the brain. It is useful in treatment of eye-diseases, ulcers of the cornea, tuberculous glands, elephantiasis, headache, ascites, leucoderma, burning sensation, pains, biliousness and ulcers.
In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent. In Southeast Asia the flowers are used to colour food. In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice (from wikipedia.).
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Sweet memories enhance
The backwards glance
Long into childhood's way,
Hours by the sea
Timeless, carefree
Where the sun brightly shone
Every day,
Looking out o'er the waves
Soft, memory saves
A joy that forever stays
Held deep in that part
Of one's innermost heart..
Of so happy,
dear sand-castle days!
~John McLeod
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Hero's name: Mystic Guard (or spelled as Mysticguard)
Name: Sanford Elliot Mercer Bradley
Age: 31
Bio: Sanford Bradley was born in Croatia to American parents, at a military base. At 5, his parents moved back to live with his dad's grandparents in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents were often busy and Sanford was often in the care of his grandparents. He loved history and philosophy, so his grandparents helped him quite a lot, especially his grandfather, who knew a huge chunk of history and taught him the best.
Many years later, his grandmother had died and Sanford's parents never came back to him. The young man had to take care of his ailing grandfather and make a life for himself, his hard work paved the way for him to graduate from college. When Sanford was an adult and after his grandfather's death, he started to work as a courier, while still studying philosophy and history in his own spare time. Eventually, he then received a package from his late grandfather, who gave him a set of books and some gifts he couldn't have, as well the photos of his parents. Sanford got emotional and he also unleashed his powers, destroying his garage.
Sanford then realised he was like of the other many, and decided that his powers would be best if he understood magic, because he felt the connection. He took half a year to study magic secretly and training on his own, but would meet the blind warlock, who took him in as his other protege as another young lady was his other student. Named as Mystic Guard to help protect innocents from ghosts, Sanford, his mentor and his other partner would then start to travel globally to hunt down evil spirits and searching for magic.
Powers and abilities: Metal manipulation (anything that is metal related), control metal, cannot rust, create weapons made out of metal from his arms and legs, metal dust manipulation and etc. Also has powers of eidetic memory, enhanced learning and 360 vision. Understands magic and knows how to conjure spells, adept combatant and minimal knowledge of guns through personal training and the moves he studies from the history books. Talented philosopher as well.
Weaknesses: Magnetism, extreme fire and ice, (though these three can be overcome by magic) not able to turn his whole body into metal. Rusting (formerly).
Equipment: Two unbreakable katanas forged by his knowledge with a lot of help from Lockhart, grey armour, slightly armoured lower body and arms, weapons made from his arms and legs.
Personality: Bold, can be cool and joking (deadapan humor), resourceful, very flexible, innovative and organised. Sometimes spiritual.
Flower Aparajita or Clitoria ternatea (Sanskrit: श्वेतां, विष्णूक्रांता). A Macro shot.
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This plant is native to tropical equatorial Asia, but has been introduced to Africa, Australia and America.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant. Its leaves are elliptic and obtuse. It grows as a vine or creeper, doing well in moist neutral soil. The most striking feature about this plant are its vivid deep blue flowers. They are solitary, with light yellow markings. They are about 4 cm long by 3 cm wide. There are some varieties that yield white flowers.
The fruits are 5 – 7 cm long, flat pods with 6 to 10 seeds in each pod. They are edible when tender.
It is grown as an ornamental plant and as a revegetation species (e.g., in coal mines in Australia), requiring little care when cultivated. Its roots fix nitrogen and therefore this plant is also used to improve soil quality.
In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent.
Flower and pods in different states of ripenessIn Southeast Asia the flowers are used to colour food. In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice for kuih ketan (also known as pulut tai tai in Peranakan/Nyonya cooking) and in nonya chang. In Thailand, a syrupy blue drink is made called nam dok anchan (น้ำดอกอัญชัน). In Burma the flowers are used as food, often they are dipped in batter and fried.
In animal tests the methanolic extract of Clitoria ternatea roots demonstrated nootropic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant and antistress activity. The active constituent(s) include Tannins, resins, Starch, Taraxerol & Taraxerone.
Clitoria ternatea root extracts are capable of curing whooping cough if taken orally[citation needed]. The extract from the white-flowered plant can cure goiter. The roots are used in ayurveda Indian medicine.
Recently, several biologically active peptides called cliotides have been isolated from the heat-stable fraction of Clitoria ternatea extract. Cliotides belong to the cyclotides family[4] and acvities studies show that cliotides display potent antimicrobial activity against E. coli, K. pneumonia, P. aeruginosa and cytotoxicity against HeLa cells. These peptides have potential to be lead compound for the development of novel antimicrobial and anti-cancer agents.
Should you choose to walk past the offensive tourist conurbation with its expensive car park then the coast will reward you with glorious views. I've happy memories as a child of quite wrongly catching adders here. The memories enhanced by the hospitalization of my older brother from getting bitten. Happy days.
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as butterfly-pea, blue-pea, and cordofan-pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family.
In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent.In Southeast Asia the flowers are used to colour food. In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice for kuih ketan. In Thailand, a syrupy blue drink is made called nam dok anchan. In Burma the flowers are used as food, often they are dipped in batter and fried.
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Where the sun brightly shone
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Looking out o'er the waves
Soft, memory saves
A joy that forever stays
Held deep in that part
Of one's innermost heart..
Of so happy, dear
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It amazes me that the big-box pharmacies in the USA market this snake-oil, as well as all sorts of other over-the-counter "medications". What about memory-enhancement pills made out of jellyfish? Uh-huh, I bet that stuff really works. None of this junk has proven value from clinical studies. OK, tell me I'm wrong!
Latin name - Cantharanthus roseus
Some of the health benefits of Sadabahar, periwinkle or vinca rosea plant are :
The leaves and stems are a source of alkaloids that have anti tumor and anti cancer properties.
The leaves are used to control diabetes and high blood pressure.
The alkaloids also offer sedative and tranquilizing properties.
It relieves muscle pain and depression.
Because of its property of detoxification and counteracting poison it is used to relieve wasp stings.
Sadabahar controls nosebleeds, bleeding gums, mouth ulcers and sore throats.
It is useful in treating gastritis, cystitis, enteritis, diarrhea, diabetes, etc when taken internally.
The vinca rosea plant ensures brain health. Its active ingredients improve blood supply to the brain, increase the level of oxygen that the brain can utilize. It also raises serotonin levels and prevents abnormal coagulation of blood.
The alkaloid vincamine keeps the blood thin and has memory enhancing properties. It is therefore useful in preventing dementia, especially vascular dementia.
Well its Burns nicht the nicht but am sair stoupit ‘n’ scunnert wi a gammie shank so thirs nae jiggin for Robin Lad. But never mind I got to see Andrew O’Hagan’s programme Robert Fergusson – Burns Forgotten Hero. Fergusson had a great influence on Robert Burns and Burns was always generous in recognizing that. Anyway it was a fine programme set mainly in the heart of Auld Reekie though I’m not so sure that Fergusson is quite as “forgotten” as the programme implied. The statue of him in the Canongate is a great advertisement and of course dear old Sir Walter Scott makes a decent reference to him in his wonderful “Auld Reekie” novel – The Heart of Midlothian.
Anyway, I was up in Edinburgh a couple of months ago and trod the ground so well described by Andrew O’Hagan in tonight's programme, so I thought I’ll post my picture from that visit as my ain wee tribute to these great Scots poets. Burns & Fergusson, Brithers Aw!
Lots of Edinburgh's former great and good are buried within the Canongate Kirkyard. Here are found the final resting places of Clarinda ("Nancy" McLehose - friend of Robert Burns) and of Adam Smith (muse to economic think-tanks the world over), and above all that of Robert Fergusson Edinburgh's poet of the town, his memory enhanced by his legacy and by the tragedy attending it.
Edinburgh’s long history is rife with the stamp of “quality, quantity and diversity” recorded in the citation of its distinction as the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature. Here you will find all of that in a catalogue of writers who became household names achieving global importance. It is a magnificent history, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns are closely associated with the city of Edinburgh and add a shine to the luster of indigenous authors including Robert Ramsay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the important Robert Fergusson all them from the first rank; though poor “heaven-taught Fergusson” was remarkable for the brevity of his creative life and the early age of his demise.
For many of Scotland’s writers hardship and poverty were common bedfellows and longevity was winnowed away by illness and disease. The marvel is that so much was produced from such poor soils. , when Fergusson died in Bedlam asylum in on October 17, 1774 he was a mere 24 years of age, in a land of short straws his was miserably short, but such was the common lot that between them Stevenson, Burns and Fergusson lived for a combined total of not much more than 100 years.
Fergusson was born in 1750, the third of four children, theirs was a modest household whose fortunes declined with the early death of William; his father. Nevertheless education was highly prized and the young student moved from Edinburgh to Dundee finishing his education at St. Andrews University. A spell of residence with a wealthy uncle ended with neither favour or preferment and to support his mother Elizabeth, Fergusson took up his late father’s trade becoming a legal copyist in the legal centre of the hustling merry-go-round that was Edinburgh life in the age of Enlightenment. This was a time when the economic gains of Union with England were slowly generating wealth, though its spread was anything but universal. It may be that young Fergusson indulged the bohemian lifestyle rather too enthusiastically but whatever the cause of his downfall the outcome was catastrophic.
In 1771 his first poems were being published in Edinburgh, he was hailed as the new Ramsay and a modest celebrity encouraged a rapid flow of work focused on the life and character of his home town – Auld Reekie. His gift for observation, the easy lyric narrative and his mastery of the standard Habbie verse form (later taken up with gusto by Robert Burns who was always generous in acknowledging his debt to his youthful predecessor) all combined to provide Fergusson with an appreciative audience. But it was not to last. He sustained a fall, complications followed he took to bed and then was moved against his will to Bedlam where he died a few weeks later.
When Robert Burns visited Edinburgh as his own star was rising one of the first things he did was to write to the Magistrates of Edinburgh with an offer to pay for the erection of a memorial stone on Robert Fergusson's grave. Permission was agreed and Burns wrote a three verse poem but only the first verse was inscribed as can be seen on the stone to this day. In its entirety the original work reads:
HERE LIES ROBERT FERGUSON POET
No pageant bearing here nor pompous lay
No story'd urn nor animated bust;
This simple stone depicts old Scotia's way,
To pour her sorrow o'er her poet's dust.
She mourns, sweet, tuneful youth, thy hapless fate,
Tho' all the powers of Song thy fancy fir'd;
Yet Luxury and Wealth lay by in State;
And thankless starved what they so much admired.
This humble tribute with a tear he gives;
A brother Bard, he can no more bestow;
But dear to fame thy Song immortal lives,
A nobler monument than art can show.
Robert Burns.
Years later Robert Louis Stevenson wanted to renovate Fergusson's tombstone with the following inscription, - but his own premature death intervened before he could do so, however the notice at the foot of Fergusson's grave records his intention:
"This stone, originally erected by Robert Burns,
has been repaired at the charges of Robert Louis
Stevenson and is by him re-dedicated to the memory
or Robert Fergusson as the gift of one Edinburgh
lad to another".
In his book: Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes, Robert Louis Stevenson makes frequent reference to the genius of Fergusson and in a letter to Alexander Balloch Grosart, one of Fergusson's earliest biographers refers to -
"We are three Robins (Roberts), who have touched the Scots lyre in this last century. Well the one is the world's, he did it, but I and the other, ah, what bonds we have! Born in the same city, both sickly both pestered - one nearly to madness and one to the madhouse, both seeing the stars and the moon and wearing shoe-leather on the same ancient stones"
Fergusson's early death came to be recognised for the disaster it was with the passing of the years his reputation is assured, his work repays reading yet. Visitors to his Canongate grave will pass at the entrance to the Kirkyard a fine statue of a youthful, stepping-out, confident-blessed Robert Fergusson, he has; it seems, all the world beneath the long stride of his heel, for these are the ancient stones where once he trod and If you look down you will find upon them today some of his poetry too, inscribed are lines from one of his best loved works:
BRAID CLAITH
Ye wha are fain to hae your name
Wrote in the bonny book of fame,
Let merit nae pretension claim
To laurel'd wreath,
But hap ye weel, baith back and wame,
In gude Braid Claith.
He that some ells o this may fa,
An' slae-black hat on pow like snaw,
Bids bauld to bear the gree awa,
Wi a' this graith,
Whan bienly clad wi' shell fu braw
O' gude Braid Claith.
Waesuck for him wha has na fek o't!
For he's a gowk they're sure to geck at,
A chiel that ne'er will be respekit
While he draws breath,
Till his four quarters are bedeckit
Wi gude Braid Claith.
On Sabbath-days the barber spark,
When he has done wi scrapin wark,
Wi siller broachie in his sark,
Gangs trigly, faith!
Or to the Meadow, or the Park,
In gude Braid Claith.
Weel might ye trou, to see them there,
That they to shave your haffits bare,
Or curl an' sleek a pickle hair,
Would be right laith,
Whan pacing wi' a gawsy air
In gude Braid Claith.
If ony mettl'd stirrah grien
For favour frae a lady's een,
He maunna care for being seen
Before he sheath
His body in a scabbard clean
O' gude Braid Claith.
For, gin he come wi coat thread-bare,
A feg for him she winna care,
But crook her bonny mou fu sair,
And scald him baith.
Wooers shoud ay their travel spare
Without Braid Claith.
Braid Claith lends fock an unco heese,
Makes mony kail-worms butter-flees,
Gies mony a doctor his degrees
For little skaith:
In short, you may be what you please
Wi gude Braid Claith.
For thof ye had as wise a snout on
As Shakespeare or Sir Isaac Newton,
Your judgment fouk would hae a doubt on,
I'll tak my aith,
Till they coud see ye wi a suit on
O' gude Braid Claith.
Robert Fergusson 1750 - 1774.
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I happened to find the original box to the 1993 release of Playmates Toys' Mutatin' Foot Soldier, and luckily the Mega Mutation Chart was still inside. It is pretty awesome, even better than I remembered. Who knew the mighty Foot Clan began their criminal career as mere light blubs before evolving into circuit boards, Alien-esque embryos, and Terminator cyborgs? But just look at that impressive memory enhancements brought about by the mutagen! He maxes out at just over 1 Petabyte (i.e., 1,000 Terabytes; i.e., 1,000,000 Gigabytes!) And all this is in 1993, no less! Dang, you would think with all that digital storage space, Shredder would be able to program them with some decent anti-Turtle fighting defense! Alas, the Turtles go through the Foot Soldiers by the dozen. But in this case, I think the blame falls on the programmer rather than the hardware. Let's face it, Shredder was a techno-flunkie who probably needed Krang to help him set the clock of his VCR.
Special thanks to tOkKa for reminding me of how cool these charts were!
And I apologize for the relatively small size. The original file size is quite large, but apparently my flickr account doesn't have the capacity to host the largest file size. :-(
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This is from nice piece of Utah coprolite found in the SMS rockyard. The fecal matter has been replaced by a dense mossy agate. I slabbed it and cut a test-cab. It takes a mirror polish.
Just for chuckles, I went to see if anyone claims metaphysical properties for coprolites. Sure enough, several sites claim that coprolite "aids memory. Enhances intelligence, mental stability. Is also used for past life regressions because of its inherent link with the past. Increases energy. Particularly useful in calming fears. Calms anxiety and basic fears about survival. -Strong physical healer and energy energizer. ."
Does this mean that the term shit-for-brains was a compliment all along?
I figured that, if anything, maybe it just helps keep you regular. :-)
The "gem poop" moniker was created by me. I figure if dino bone is "gem bone," then this is a logical step.
Attracts luck, improves business & social life, good for memory enhancement, Powerful Presence, regeneration, healing, charisma & builds a Protective shield around the Aura: wards-off negative energies / forces / psychic attack / protection.
This is where my Mom grew up.
The family farm is no longer in the family. We had to sell it years ago when my Uncle's health (and my grandfather's age) prevented them from being able to continue to manage the farm.
I suddenly find myself with an unexpected lump in my throat as my brain takes off to run through old memories...
(Enhanced with a texture from Distressed Jewell)
Oh, Sand Castle Days...
By John McLeod
Sweet memories enhance
The backwards glance
Long into childhood's way,
Hours by the sea
Timeless, carefree
Where the sun brightly shone
Every day,
Looking out o'er the waves
Soft, memory saves
A joy that forever stays
Held deep in that part
Of one's innermost heart..
Of so happy,
dear
sand-castle days!
(I'm going backwards! Sorting through autumn pictures, and posting a few that remind us what a lovely season it is)
Golden leaves of the Ginkgo tree frame the uplifted roof corners of the T'ing pavilion atop the rock mountain.
The Ginkgo is known as a living fossil, its history going back 270 million years. Ginkgo trees were already fossilized in the Jurassic age. The first specimen brought to North America was a gift to Thomas Jefferson for his gardens at Monticello. Today, it grows around the world as a popular landscaping tree.
The leaves reminded scholar-Officials in ancient China of an open fan, that symbolically spreads good luck. On the practical side, it was valued as a memory enhancer (appreciated by those young scholars when taking the rigorous exams of their day!).
Recent studies indicate it does not delay dementia or Alzheimer's, but some studies show it may enhance general cognitive ability - the jury's still out on this one.
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We have had a huge, bountiful crop of wild plums this year. Last year show was a shadow of this year's. Given the cyclic pattern of produce, we are making the most of this year's bounty. These plums are set to simmer and be juiced for jelly and syrup.
And then there are the health benefits:
Eat plums for spider veins - get smarter - help digestion and maybe flush fat-packing toxins - and because they taste great!
Just one cup of plums has 248 grams of Vitamin K, more than any other fruit. This vitamin reduces the appearance of spider and varicose veins by stimulating the body's production of thrombin. In a recent study, this clotting protein was shown to obstruct blood circulation to damaged veins, causing them to shrink and fade in as little as six weeks.
Plums are rich in chlorogenic acid and neochlorogenic acid. These antioxidants fight off superoxide anion radical (a toxin by-product of a normal immune response). Shutting down this free radical halts brain-cell damage, thus safeguarding memory, enhancing reasoning skills and supporting new neuronal growth.
Plums are a top source of the natural sugar sorbitol and are packed with the insoluble fiber hemicellulose. Research shows that this healthy duo improves the digestive tract's food-shuttling efficiency, slashing heartburn and constipation risk by 36%. Bonus: Once consumed, gel-like hemicellulose fuels bloat-fighting probiotic bacteria in the large intestine, rapidly flattening the belly.
Eating plums might prevent fat accumulation in the belly, hips, and thighs. Plums are acidic and high in vitamin C, two factors that trigger bile production. This digestive fluid traps dietary fat molecules before they can be absorbed, speeding their elimination from the body. And acidic, vitamin C rich fruit helps flush fat-packing toxins from the lymphatic system.
A powdery haze on a plum, known as its bloom, indicates that the fruit has not been over handled - so it's less likely than a shiny plum to be bruised on the inside.
‘Pasting (from AUGUST STRINDBERG'S 'THE DREAM PLAY')’
CHRISTINE. I paste, I paste.
THE DAUGHTER. [Pale and emaciated, sits by the stove] You shut out all the air. I choke!
CHRISTINE. Now there is only one little crack left.
THE DAUGHTER. Air, air—I cannot breathe!
CHRISTINE. I paste, I paste.
THE LAWYER. That's right, Christine! Heat is expensive.
Talia: “The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge. But one consciousness rules them all: the dreamer's; for him there are no secrets, no inconsistencies, no scruples and no laws. He does not judge or acquit, he merely relates”
Ruin: The wonderful Mister Strindberg. Waving here. Whilst un-pasting, even.
It’s all a bit like that, I guess. Unravelling, perhaps, more so. But there is a definite picking apart. I almost feel like I have ‘breakthroughs’ every morning, though there might be some self-delusion there. I am aware of my neediness, that yearning for some sort of acknowledgement, central to posting here on Flickr, the text with the images. That is now stopping, I am unlearning that ‘habit’ currently, un-pasting it, unravelling it, whatever. But I can’t spend too much time on that, it’s time to make the move. I think I have done it.
I have started to write alone, for and to myself. I can do it. I even found ‘Rock’ to help me out, a fictitious character, an ‘anti-me’. I know. He might, or might not, become fully-fledged, an amalgamation of ‘daddy voices’, a character in himself. He might fade away with time, I have no idea. I am continuing to write.
This frees me up, I don’t have to worry about censorship, offending anybody, or being cancelled. There’s an idea, like I care about being cancelled anyway. How more cancelled’ can one be? Death does that eventually and is the only cancellation that is of mild interest, even.
Yes, to the world out there, its stupid wars, and its unravelling climate-wise. I am not going to be going out there throwing tomato soup over, oil-painted, water lilies. Each to his own. I have never driven, and never will, and will more than likely never fly again, having not done so for 12 years now. I will wear extra jumpers and turn off the heat. I will continue to write, pasting up those cracks. I won’t be sending money to charitable causes where the head of the board drives a car or takes planes to emergency climate meetings. With a total pension of 500 Euros a month, why would I send money to any charity?
Hopefully I will overcome this schizophrenia, this pasting/unpasting, by removing myself further, this quarantine.
It’s a bit scary, but ho-hum, that’s life. Ernaux has been wonderful to read, a tonic in these times, the self, that core, extended outwards shamelessly, Sadean and true, wonderfully desperate.
I will always have room for you, and will always answer you, and love your incursions.
I might not play so much with images anymore, but will continue to put things up on Flickr, more everyday notes, like a visual journal, a day by day diary. I have been using it as a research place for a while now, putting up other reminders for myself, like the one attached, just visual notes.
just memory enhancers...
And yes, there is an awful lot of writing, and I will try to make it into what is called a book. If any of it is any good, it might survive, if it's not any good, then it won't. I can't judge it, being in the middle of it, and am too busy to bother to even try. Time will tell, and I won't be around for that telling, either way, anyway.
I disagree with that “You can’t call yourself a writer ... when you’ve never actually written a book!”. You can call yourself anything you want, the world doesn't have to concur, but that, ultimately doesn't matter.
Self-delusion might be at the core of every individual, so embracing that might be a beginning.
It's interesting that this brings up a pithiness in me, it's very uncomfortable, but at least interesting to acknowledge. It's a huge failing in me, I have no doubt about that, forty shades of green and all that palaver.
Screaming 'love me' relentlessly sure wears one down. I suspect though that this might eventually be a good thing, that wearing down. Hope springs eternal!
Paste, unpaste, pick apart and tangle up. Gordian knots, go figure. I like realising how awful I am; it's a great first step.
Rack, I guess you are, for now, the only sounding board I am not relinquishing. I know I can do it without you, but I love doing it with you. It is, of course, totally up to you if you want to play the muse role or not. Rock is proving to be a great help, a godsend, even.
Enjoy those 40 variations of verdure.
Rock: Okay, so you have begun to be more methodical with the keeping of a diary, I think that might be a good idea, to have some continuity. It can feed in and out of what you are writing too.
Ruin: Yes, that’s the idea. Of course, it’s inspired by Ernaux, but also by Rack. Rack, apparently, has written every day for as long as I have known her, and obviously well before that too (Yes, there was life before me). This means she knows dates, the exact date we met, the days of our screaming/laughing walks, shared hysterics, and the dates of other huge events in her own life, ones I can only guess approximately. Like the day she discovered she also had Hep-c, on top of her principal fatal disease. In 1988 that’s exactly what it was, there was no talk then of it being manageable. She has always been at great pains to point out to me that these diary entries are just that, the bones of each day, just a record of what happened on that day. Rack has always been spare, the opposite of me. I guess it’s one of the many reasons I am drawn to her. I have always loved to coax out ‘trusting’ from the overly cautious, it’s one of my many failings.
I find hesitancy beautiful.
I have even asked her for some dates, like what was that date we met, the day of that break in filming in the ‘Moondance Diner’. There is always this sort of vague ‘promise’ of her telling me, of giving me that information, but it isn’t really a promise, more an indication that I was heard, and that, perhaps, I don’t need to know, like it’s one step too far. I love this privacy dance. There are so many ways in which Rack is beyond generous. She is more than right in this preserving of her own bones.
As it happens, I don’t really need dates. I can even get the year slightly wrong, and the story would still be exactly the same. I don’t even know on which dates my mother and father died, I know I could search for it in those million words of emails, or Flickr posts, but I don’t have that knowledge in my head. It’s on a hard drive external to me. It’s not something I am proud of, it’s just true. Jeffrey died of Aids sometime in 1991, I think. I helped him die, stopped him universally hemorrhaging with morphine, and I don’t even remember the date.
Who believes in dates or calendars anyway?
Answer: Obviously Rack and Annie Ernaux do. I love that they do, so I might give it a go here.
It might even alleviate the squandering of days, in becoming a daily chore, like brushing your teeth or having a good dump. I suspect it might even become pleasurable, rather like the latter of those two chores.
I did follow Rack down the HIV route, some 15 years after she tripped-up potholing. I didn’t follow her down that Hep-c boreen. Perhaps something had kicked-in, in between times. Perhaps our emails had sobered me up, or maybe the childhood abuse was already healing. Either way, Rack sloughed off that liver lurgy, hip-hip-hooray for science, and now we only have this one ‘manageable’ death sentence to negotiate together, side by side whilst forever apart. We now get to catfish each other gloriously.
I couldn’t, or wouldn’t, ask for more. Knowing she is out there, and apparently immortal, is more than enough. We share a certain sardonic humour about it all, recalling her “The year of my so-called death” in 1988, a year I initially got wrong at first, erroneously placing us in 1997 in ‘The Moondance Diner’.
What’s 34, or is it 35, years between friends?
Rack as Nora, Nora as Rack
Rack never blurted; she always controlled her output. The effect was precise and Protestant, “I found out I am HIV positive a few days ago.”
“Oh Christ”, Ruin blurted, Catholic to the hilt.
Ruin was always an outlet for Rack, almost like a delinquent spokesperson, the stuttering utterer of the unspeakable. He had the ability to take the private into the realm of the universally available with consummate ease. She didn’t. It was something she greatly feared and something she instinctively grasped that early summer morning in 1987, in the 'Moondance Diner', on 6th Avenue and Grand. She knew she was making the personal public. She was undoing herself.
He possessed that strange gift, the one imposed and imprinted, like the mark of Cain, on the sexually molested child, of having no facility to recognise boundaries, no ability to be able to tell the personal and private apart from what could be made generally available. She knew that he was her surrogate broadcaster and momentarily shuddered at the stranger, whom she had spontaneously trusted, sitting opposite her. This understanding hung between them as they ordered breakfast.
Their opening was torturous and drove them scurrying apart. It was more than either of them could handle, Rack racked with regret for exposing this opening wound and Ruin incapable of carrying the story alone. Their rehabilitation was slow and arduous. It was a time when to speak these words was a declaration of the almost immediate dissolution of self. It was a time before the hope generated by the misnomered cocktails and the political agitation, which was to burgeon out of despair and become Act- Up. It was a time before anything could be done except grasp at straws. So, both started grasping and would occasionally find themselves in the same room drawn to the same possible panacea. Rack’s volition was desperation. Ruin’s was guilt. They acknowledged each other with some embarrassment and growing affection and more often than not turned away from each other and left separately. Ruin knew he loved Rack. Rack was not at all sure.
Dear Rack,
Just sending you back some words you once sent to me:
“I have often thought that writers do not write; they read what is already written and transcribe. So perhaps they are not complaining about ill health, lack of money, and rejection, but about the bondage of a calling that keeps them laboriously transcribing cryptic messages in rapidly disappearing ink, like the traces of a dream, year after year...."
Thinking of how romantic you are.... even if it is all so appalling to live through.
We seem to endure, and hopefully will continue to do so for a little while longer.
Love,
Ruin
Rack: There they are. And there they aren’t. I love them like I could never love them.
Ruin: Yes indeed, there we are and there we aren't. I like finding an image of us, whilst telling a mis-remembered story. I like that we have inadvertently grown older than we expected, and are growing towards not hating ourselves through the writing of it out, and I love that we have written to each other over 35 years and I have squirrelled it all away to draw ‘Artificial Intelligence’ images out of. This image is made from us, but is not exactly us. This A.I. is a late life gift.
I dreamt about Rock. He didn’t look at all like me, which sort of surprised me. I am not sure why. We were in bed together, and we were spooning. I was trying it on, of course, which used to be my wont in the intervening years between the rupture and the present, pushing back on him, and he was telling me no, that it was inappropriate, and not what we both needed. Of course, it put me in mind of James, my uncle, and I agreed with Rock. Yes, he was right.
Rock was big spooning me, tenderly, lovingly, it felt good, it felt completely nonsexual, there was no pressure against my back. I was a very small spoon. Once I accepted these new, strange, parameters, I was relieved, perhaps more so because I am now, at 68, enjoying being inviolate, and my dream sort of knew this, even though I was young in the dream. There was a weird sort of retrospective knowing. I felt as vulnerable as I was then, but I somehow knew that Rock was right. He said, “you want to talk about James, don’t you?”. Again, he was right, I did. The Pope was also in the dream, not in the bed, but he might as well have been. I can’t remember why he was there, what he was up to. I just remember thinking he must be the biggest tourist-draw in the world, now that Liz is dead, at least as an individual. This seemed, and even now seems, incontrovertible.
This diary thing suits me. I start typing as soon as the computer kicks on, before I take my first of three morning pills, before I have time to forget. I still have no idea if Putin has decimated Kherson overnight, or if there is a new universal plague working its terror outside our front door. The world will do what it does. It will work its way into my consciousness all in good time, no man being an island and all that palaver. I really have to stop saying that. The initial diary entry can just sit there uncompleted, a memory jogger, to be filled in, fleshed out, or concluded later, constituting what Rack might call “The bones of the night”.
Ok, the bones are established, I can take a peep. Al Jazerra is screaming:“ ‘Too loud is true’: Is Russia setting a Trap in Kherson? “. The madness of the everyday asserts itself, stretching out before breakfast, echoing Blanchot. But back to Uncle James, and other personal insanities.
I never pushed back on James, or did I? I don't know. I was a needy child. I was stupidly innocent, young, ignorant, or perhaps just unschooled. He was the predator, put in my bed by my mother. I was the ‘victim’. Unfortunately, this victimhood status seems to be a very hardy perennial, one that flowers even for the whole life of that plant, or the person, but not only does it flower once yearly, it flowers often, and whenever it wants to. It’s more like a very persistent budding weed, a knot weed of sorts. The Gordian aspect of it all is perhaps gilding that description. But it is there. Either way, unravelling it can take a lifetime. There are shortcuts through it, suicide or running riot with a chainsaw, slicing through it like Alexander the Great, that sort of thing, but Ruin was always glad he hadn’t resorted to those. No, he decided he would gnaw at the knot, hopelessly hoping that nobody would notice his teeth wearing down.
Of Boreen Raging (A Silverfish Book)_Photo below.
People noticed of course.
Anyway Ruin, his pronouns are ‘he’ and ‘him’, is that third person descriptor of the protagonist here, and I am going to write this in the first person. Afterall it is just an early-morning diary entry written to, and for, me, so all subterfuge can be dropped.
Rock: I get what you are saying there, but you do know that’s virtually impossible, don’t you? Do you really think you can tell the ‘truth’, even to yourself, I mean, can anyone?
Ruin: Yes, Rock, I think he gets that, but you are right to point it out. Perhaps we both need to shut up and just see what he comes up with.
Rock: Get you Ruin! Move over King Solomon, there’s a contender in court.
Ruin: More of a pretender, but whatevs! Let’s try shutting-the-fuck-up.
Either way, I won’t be rushed in this. It will come out in its own time. It will come out. I might write more later today, or I might not. It’s not a question of ‘waiting for the muse’, it’s more letting things percolate. You two, Rock and Ruin, can chime in whenever you want, don’t hold back, I appreciate your input even if I don’t always agree with you. Rack has flown from New York to Ireland, she’s there now. I am thinking about her proximity to Amsterdam (my current home), and ever-present absence. She can still tolerate being there, I can’t. My imagination won’t allow me even to contemplate ever being there again. I can’t see that changing, but I can consider the remote possibility of being wrong about that.
As an aside, Annie Ernaux came a little closer to what I wrote about her earlier, that de Sade connection via de Beauvoir, in a quote from her diary in ‘Getting Lost’, page 178:
“A descent into sadomasochism, but gentle, without violence (because of the combination of sodomy and ‘normal’ sex - bruised all over, at one point, I thought I was torn). He said, ‘Annie, I love you’, and I didn’t attach any importance to it because it was during sex”
My convoluted mind connects this with the abuse in my early teens, I am not sure why it does, it just does. Hence, my need to let things percolate.
There was a point, towards the very end of that rupture, when Uncle James, said he loved me. There was no victory there at all, other than getting him permanently out of my bed, which was in itself huge. Strangely it more or less happened at the same time as I seemed to, miraculously, overcome my stammer. I have never understood that. Actually, I do sort of sense what that means though I will need some time to be able to describe that ‘vanquishing’.
I think I was 15 years old.
Saint Annie hits the nail on the head again, driving it further into that sprawling green Grünewald-ean hand.
Look, the stutter is gone, and I am no longer just a set of holes.
01/11/2022
I dreamt about some right-honourable-members last night, or early this morning. They weren’t ‘in full flight’ members, not ‘virilis’ or anything, just cuddly soft ones, nestled, slumbering in, pre-depilation, retro pubes, with their hoods drawn over their dry little heads. The word ‘cute’ comes to mind. They were attached to unrecognisable individuals, those cuddly coils, one of whom seemed to be collecting money in one of those plastic collecting thingies that those people outside the supermarket carry, trying to relieve you of your spare change for some good cause or other. Their days might be somewhat numbered, those collectors, what with everyone in the queue seemingly flashing their iPhones at the scanners nowadays, so that cash seems to be becoming redundant, going the way of that downy cushion of pubes, following advancement and the new century, like the rest of everything else, towards extinction.
Blessed, and much beloved redundancy, all part and parcel of this rush towards endless growth and a brave new post-tumescent world. Bring it on. Being chaffed off is more than acceptable. It’s even interesting to be in the process of feeling the parts fall off. It all puts me in mind of watching Mark America die, yes that was his adopted name, as he watched, and described, his body working to “let me go”, as he put it. I couldn’t be beside his bedside for the whole duration, we were not that close, and he wanted time alone. I asked him would he like to have a camera to record dying, and he said that he really would. He was one of those artist types, incorrigible. I gave him a few disposable cameras, they were all the rage then in the late eighties or early nineties, whenever it was. You know me and dates. I can check though. The dates of his taking them were inscribed automatically on the photos themselves. I have the images; I will take a look.
It was later than I thought, 20/12/94 to be precise, coming on Christmas, not that far off the date when the pills became lifesavers. Mark missed that boat, but he didn’t seem to mind at all. He didn’t appear to have a ‘poor me’ bone in his body. Yes Ruin, shut up, I know I could take a page from his book, whilst inserting him into mine. Can you and Rock just withdraw for a moment, whilst I work this out?
I have no idea how he did it. He was ensconced in a private room in a salubrious midtown hospital, with a view out on that island in the Hudson, ‘Roosevelt Island’ by name. He could watch the famed aerial tram, a strangely placed type of ski-lift, go back and forth. I knew the area, from having worked up there on some interiors for ‘Parrish Hadley’, well for Arthur Hadley really, Sister Parrish having recently done her own sloughing off. I used to do these interiors, so called ‘special finishes’, Venetian Stucco and the like, to support my making of the ‘Ikons’, those memorialising, honouring, pieces which were part and parcel of my meeting with Mark in that hospital. Some of those pieces are now ensconced in the ‘Irish Museum of Modern Art’. Mark didn’t live long enough to be included in that set of 40 gold-leaf pieces, though we initially met to discuss the possibility.
Mark was English originally, I never knew his family name, something else he had sloughed off, becoming an ‘illegal alien’ artist, with no health insurance, taking on the name of his host country. He was a fellow raving homo in the middle of a raging plague. Of course, we loved each other instantly. What was not to love? That love lasted all of three weeks, just allowing him enough time to bring in the New Year and die. How he ended up in a private room in the ‘Memorial Sloane Kettering Hospital’, I will never know. I did ask, but he waved the question off as inconsequential. He was right, what mattered was that he was there, with a catheter tube snaking out of his, fully on display, nestled and swollen trouser-snake.
He loved its redundancy. I must admit that I loved its redundancy too, it was infectious, but I even more loved his total acceptance, his embracing, of his devolving.
Or was it evolving?
I remember him say “Look at me, look what my body has to do to let me go. Isn’t it remarkable?”, whilst gesturing towards his family jewels. We both laughed. Yes, it was remarkable, it was a rhetorical question. He appeared to have no anger at all. It wasn’t every day that you would walk into a room and be encountered by a man, a veritable stranger, in a hospital bed with his ‘Scolaro’ out, swollen and pierced by a red dangly tube, leading to a bag attached to the side of the bed. Don’t worry, the full etymology of the word ‘Scolaro’ will follow shortly, but you will know from a few paragraphs above that I am talking about his ‘John Thomas’, those offending members do seem to be the subject for discussion this good morning. Those of a delicate nature might choose to look away, though it is possibly a mite too late now for one of those ubiquitous ‘trigger warnings’. I shall endeavour not to allow my description, my feeling my way into this delicate subject, become too purple.
I am looking at a photograph of him now, and no, I am not crying, neither am I sad. He was, and is, formidable, holding his swollen uncut member in his hands, swollen by the substantial tube disappearing into it. The tube itself is forked, the part outside his body, I mean. One fork is sealed off with some sort of stopper, the other fork continues into a long plastic tube, snaking off the side of the bed to a slowly filling bag. I presume the second forked, and stoppered, tube is for ingress, for whatever drugs might be needed to facilitate the body’s acceptance of this intrusion, perhaps some anaesthetising agent.
Mark is wonderfully alert, obviously talking to me, but, for the most part, I can’t remember what he was saying. I suspect he was just getting on with being very much alive, and he was letting me record it. I guess that it might have been at that point that I asked him if he would like me to get him some disposable cameras. I knew the answer before I asked.
He was still handsome, thin but handsome, with a fashionable goatee beard thing, just on his chin, in the middle of his otherwise cleanly-shaven face. I would guess that he was around 34 at the time. We didn’t really discuss age and birthdays.
Come to think of it, it was about one year after I had my first New York exhibition ‘Saints and Survivors in a Time of Plague’. I showed 6 or 8 of the ikons in that show, and ‘The Sodomy Piece’. If my memory serves me rightly, Kelly, one of the ‘ikon’ sitters, introduced me to Mark, and this was how I ended up sitting by his very entertaining bedside. I know, a strange descriptor for that type of vigil, but Mark was full on. I know, ‘ikons’ as opposed to icons, and survivor is missing its ‘u’, but hey, I was American too. Both Rack and Ruin, our titular duo are both represented in these ikons, with perhaps 40 other ‘saints’ and some survivors, even.
Mark died 3 weeks later, and left me the disposable cameras, with his last images.
I still have them.
An Open Beaver
Ray: I know you don’t need me, or anyone else, to say this but, Ruin, you’ve done great! And of course far more than great.
Ruin: I am not very confident about it, but I am doing it anyway. We get as far as we get.
You too.
Thank you for saying that. I got your message just as I was going to bed. Yes, to your list above...No interest in (sex, alcohol, travel, parties, people)...I am there too, completely. The rest is extra, though I have said that before. I am still planning to write until I drop, for no other reason other than I enjoy it, and it explains things to oneself.
I needed the musk of aging male. That wasn't a choice either, just a happenstance, debatably imprinted during the abuse, but more likely there from the beginning, that missing father stuff. Yes, we are doomed (doomed I tell you, doomed, intoned as a comic aside), that has never been not so, from the beginning of time, and will never be any different. Everything dies, get over it. It’s that universal story to do with what it means to be mortal, and no bloody big deal, whilst being at the same time, for us, the biggest deal of all.
Vermeer, Klimt, Grünewald, all great describers in their own time. I am only interested in the now of Putin, Covid and the rest of the sorry travesty (all of which I love, go figure). The world can sink or blow itself up, I will describe it until I cannot. End of story.
I don't mind being a demented fool, and getting HIV was not a mistake, or a misfortune.
It was a coping mechanism, like everything else. I must say that I am tired of decent good people. Decent good family people, decent good priests and nuns, decent good businessmen and bank managers, decent good 'professionals' and politicians, decent good artists, decent good billionaires. I am most thankful that I never had to take a machine gun to them all, like some poor unfortunates with access to a machine gun license in America, and elsewhere. I am so pleased I only really ever hurt, damaged, 'killed' myself even. That's decency personified in my book.
We did, and are doing, okay, and feck all the begrudgers.
Well then, that's all the hard edges knocked off at last!
Ray: I feel the same way about my whoremongerings. In the post-ménopausique I can see, rationally, that it is sexual exploitation. I was taking advantage of the disadvantaged: poor women in a developing country.
Ruin: The whole world is at it; it's what nature does, red in tooth and claw, and all that cliched stuff. The weak are eaten, that includes everyone, the self even, there is always someone stronger. It's the veneer of dignity and pseudo decency I find offensive, especially that dressed in religion and etiquette, propriety, decency and chivalry.
The Conjoined Origins of Chivalry and the Humble Domestic Can Opener (Photo attached below).
a 'de Selby' classic essay (currently unavailable).
'There's many a slip twixt cup and lip', as the old saying goes.
Ruin: I suspect he might need a can opener to use the urinal.
Seven: Such beautiful lighting for an isolation of desperation. Nobly knelt before the unthought of his decisions. Very much the religious approach and a hilarious reduction of the original taking the knee.
Ruin: and this was years, verily centuries, before the advent of the electric can-opener too.
Of course, the knights and Samurai of yore, or whatever local military brute force available, would build chivalrous systems based on manners and church-sanctioned decency. They could afford it through the patronage of the top, vicious, dogs, who themselves had evolved through combining brute force with intelligence. It’s evolution at work, that survival of the fittest, nothing noble about it, except in the same idea that defines the ‘Noble gasses’ in the periodic table. They are a chemical fluke that created a class system, wholly natural and infinitely exploitable, and exploiting. Of course, I have no problem with this, how could I?
It’s the dressing it all up as ‘decent’ and ‘dignified’, those with ‘manners’ and ‘breeding’ against the ‘Not quite our class, dear’, and then using those ideas as weapons to control. This is partially what I have a problem with. I also know that this story has been told forever, but that’s possibly why it needs to be told, continuously updating it. I don’t think either that humankind is the only facet of everything that tells ‘stories’. The entirety of everything does, it’s about consciousness. I am afraid I am one of those who believe that everything (and non-thing) is conscious, or as the bible says somewhere “The very stones themselves will cry out”. Stories are that ‘crying out’ made manifest.
‘Choice’ would be a fine thing, but in my ‘system’ it doesn’t exist. But you know this already.
Either way, it is the system I am going to use to describe. It’s the same one I used for forty years whilst visually describing, now I want to take that into words. Writing, or making art, is not a choice. They are both compulsions and survival mechanisms. I see this true of everything we do, including murder, suicide, rape and whoremongering. Sometimes we have to quarantine ourselves to control these compulsions. Those of us who don’t have the compulsion to rape and murder are very lucky indeed.
I suspect that empathy grows out of that seedbed, the recognition that we are all capable of the worst atrocities, but by sheer happenstance, and luck, we haven't had to utilise those methods as, what appears to be, our only route for survival. We accidentally, and thankfully, found other ways, in keeping with our natures and conditioning. You gotta luv Darwin.
❤️
That heart was for Charles, not for my statement.
By the way, your name is Ray in the 'book'. I was going to just use 'J', but that, of course, suggests its own name.
Ray: As life wears on, and, on reflection, I have come around to your understanding of the meaning of the word ‘choice’. For example, I have no choice about testosterone withdrawal taking away my libido or interest in sex, just as I had no choice about its onset, aged 12, and everything that arose from that. But I do suspect there are categories of choice/no-choice, and that example of the no-choice effect of hormones on behaviour is but one. As far as choice governs conduct, I know I’d be lying if I said I had no choice about whether or not to have sex with a prostitute: it was always a conscious choice, as was the choice to use condoms, even if the libidinous impulse itself wasn’t. Those choices we *are* responsible for, I think, like it or not. And when it comes to crime and law-breaking, criminal law holds us responsible.
I am very glad that I was fortunate enough to be able to escape marrying someone I don’t love, having children I don’t want, and doing a dead-end job I hate, to keep all that going. I think that is the lot of many heterosexual men. I can see how that might generate resentment and violence. All thanks to the hormones which make all this happen.
Ruin: Yes, to that, but there are other, equally powerful, drivers at work, an infinite number of them, even. I don't see self-quarantining as a 'choice' either, it's a survival mechanism, as is my cuckoo instinct, my moving into already built nests. Anyway, all that is my 'starting point', even if I am wrong.
I am somewhat of a mind with Miro on that one, start with a point (a full stop, even), then take that point for a walk. Start with an idea, erroneous or not (who's right and who is wrong anyway?) and begin to walk it forward.
“All of these lines across my face
tell you the story of who I am;
so many stories of where I’ve been,
and how I got to where I am.”
~Brandi Carlile
On the afternoon that I took the photo you're seeing above, I had some bonding time with Tita Cely ("Tita" is our language's answer to "Aunt" or "Auntie" in English).
Tita Cely is known in our family circles for being the one with the sharpest memory. Seriously...she can tell you the last fifty years or so of her life, or the story of our clan in fine detail as if all of those events just happened yesterday--without even blinking, and with no water nor bathroom breaks at that. Oh, and without the aid of gingko or other memory enhancers, too! How I wish I could do the same by the time I reach her age. Heheh.
Listening to the story of her life made me love and respect her even more. I mean, all those experiences that she had, all her feats and accomplishments during her wonder years; decades and decades of unconditionally loving and serving us--her family--and the Lord--"WOW" was the only line I could muster for a reply.
Oh, and just so you know, the tape pictured above contains a record of some stories of her childhood with my mom, my other aunts, my uncles, and my grandparents (recorded on top of the original songs it once contained). And it doesn't end there--she has like, twenty tapes on top of her cassette player. Who knows what's in all of them? Anyhoo, I bet they're all filled with wonderful songs and stories about her past too!
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One breezy afternoon,
my Tita told me a story--
of her struggles and hardships;
of her triumphs and successes;
of the day she met her first love;
of the time she finally decided
to give most of her time to the Lord,
of where she came from,
and of how she got to
where she is right now
--the story of her life.
I smiled at her joyful experiences,
and my eyes welled up at the sad ones.
Her life--a life tirelessly dedicated,
for her family and for God
--is truly a life worth remembering,
a life worth sharing,
and a life worth celebrating.
I miss you, and I love you Tita Cely! ;-)
February 25, 2010
Shades of Life
Jatamansi
Spikenard, popularly known as jatamansi in India, has been used extensively in Ayurveda for ages. The herb has multiple benefits ranging from skin care, treating bacterial infection, odour removing to anti-inflammatory, laxative, sleep inducing, being good for the uterus among others. Jatamansi is considered to be memory enhancing. It also has relaxing and calming attributes which makes it an important ingredient for various ayurvedic and herbal medicinal products.
Amazing benefits of Jatamansi
1. Hair growth: The extract of jatamansi oil is helpful in the growth of hair. It is beneficial for smooth, silky and healthy hair too. It is used to improve complexion and ensures glowing and shining looks to the body. The root of the powder in water when applied promotes skin texture.
2. It is used as anti-epileptic.
3. Cardiac health: It ensures good cardiac condition as observed in mice.
4. Memory and learning: The medicinal plant is helpful in enhancing the faculties of the brain and combats the mental problems thus impart calm and peace to mind. It is one of the effective medicinal roots to subsidies the three humors-Vatta, Pitta and Kapha and provides delightful state to the doshas of the body.
5. Strengthens the nervous system: It helps to provide vitality, vigor and strength to the body thus good for the nervous system.
6. Stress buster: The plant has the power to reduce stress, anxiety and tension by balancing biochemical reactions in the body. It is good to have the mind cool and healthy and acts as one of the finest mind rejuvenator tonic. It facilitates sound sleeping thus good for those who have stressful life.
7. Skin infection: The burning sensation of skin and inflammation get subsidized when the decoction of Jatamansi powder prepared in cold water is applied.
8. Liver problems: it shows hepatoprotective effects along with momordica charantia and ferula asafetida.
9. Antidepressant: The extract of N. jatamansi show anti-depressant features
10. Antifungual: The essential oil of it acts against fungus like Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger
Other Names: Sunbul, Sunbul al-teeb, Sunbul Hindee, Sunbul al-’asaafeer, Nardeen, Jatamamsi, Gan song, Musk Root, Indian Spikenard, Nard Indien, Achte Narde, Moschuswurzel, Sumbulwurzel, Baalchad, Kalichad, Jatamasi, Balcharr, Charr, Jatamashi, Bhootajata, Ganagila maste, Bhut-jaat, Bhutijatt, Nardostachys jatamansi DC, Jatamansi, Sumbul Hindi, Narde Hindi, Reshahwala, Balchhar, Chharguddi, Jatamansi, Mansi, Jata, Jatila, Balcharr, Sumbul-ut-teeb, Jattamasi, Jathamansi
Thanks
Vikas Petwal
The Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; '銀杏' in Chinese), frequently misspelled as "Gingko", and also known as the Maidenhair Tree, is a unique tree with no close living relatives. It is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, comprising the single class Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo and is the only extant species within this group. It is one of the best known examples of a living fossil. Ginkgoales are not known in the fossil record after the Pliocene, making Ginkgo biloba a living fossil.
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In 2002, a long-anticipated paper appeared in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) titled "Ginkgo for memory enhancement: a randomized controlled trial." This Williams College study, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging rather than Schwabe, examined the effects of ginkgo consumption on healthy volunteers older than 60. The conclusion, now cited in the National Institutes of Health's ginkgo fact sheet, said: "When taken following the manufacturer's instructions, ginkgo provides no measurable benefit in memory or related cognitive function to adults with healthy cognitive function."
HPIM6400
Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
This was my first Smartphone, not counting the Nokia 7650.
The mighty Visor Pro, with the incredible amount of 16mb of internal memory. Enhanced by the Visor Phone Springboard Module.
I loved this one and i still have it.
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Flower Aparajita or Clitoria ternatea (Sanskrit: श्वेतां, विष्णूक्रांता)is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family - A close up.
This plant is native to tropical equatorial Asia, but has been introduced to Africa, Australia and America.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant. Its leaves are elliptic and obtuse. It grows as a vine or creeper, doing well in moist neutral soil. The most striking feature about this plant are its vivid deep blue flowers. They are solitary, with light yellow markings. They are about 4 cm long by 3 cm wide. There are some varieties that yield white flowers.
The fruits are 5 – 7 cm long, flat pods with 6 to 10 seeds in each pod. They are edible when tender.
It is grown as an ornamental plant and as a revegetation species (e.g., in coal mines in Australia), requiring little care when cultivated. Its roots fix nitrogen and therefore this plant is also used to improve soil quality.
In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent.
Flower and pods in different states of ripenessIn Southeast Asia the flowers are used to colour food. In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice for kuih ketan (also known as pulut tai tai in Peranakan/Nyonya cooking) and in nonya chang. In Thailand, a syrupy blue drink is made called nam dok anchan (น้ำดอกอัญชัน). In Burma the flowers are used as food, often they are dipped in batter and fried.
In animal tests the methanolic extract of Clitoria ternatea roots demonstrated nootropic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant and antistress activity. The active constituent(s) include Tannins, resins, Starch, Taraxerol & Taraxerone.
Clitoria ternatea root extracts are capable of curing whooping cough if taken orally[citation needed]. The extract from the white-flowered plant can cure goiter. The roots are used in ayurveda Indian medicine.
Recently, several biologically active peptides called cliotides have been isolated from the heat-stable fraction of Clitoria ternatea extract. Cliotides belong to the cyclotides family[4] and acvities studies show that cliotides display potent antimicrobial activity against E. coli, K. pneumonia, P. aeruginosa and cytotoxicity against HeLa cells. These peptides have potential to be lead compound for the development of novel antimicrobial and anti-cancer agents.
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria_ternatea
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A Kansa Thali foot massager is a tool that is designed to provide a relaxing foot massage using the principles of Ayurveda. It is a small, handheld device that is made of pure Kansa which is believed to have healing properties.
the curved surface of the bowl is rubbed over the feet, providing a soothing massage.
The Kansa Thali foot massager is believed to have many health benefits. According to Ayurvedic principles, the use of Kansa is believed to help balance the body's energies, improve circulation, and reduce stress and anxiety. The massager is also believed to help alleviate foot pain, improve foot mobility, and relieve fatigue.
To use the Kansa Thali foot massager, the user simply needs to hold the handle and rub the curved surface of the bowl over the feet, using a circular motion. The massager can be used at any time, and is especially effective when used after a long day of standing or walking.
Overall, the Kansa Thali foot massager is a simple and effective tool that can provide a relaxing foot massage while also promoting overall health and wellness.
benefits of Kansa Thali:
Boosts Immunity
Enhances digestion
Balances Doshas: vata, pitt, kapha
Helps in maintaining the alkaline level in the body
Prevents acidity and gastric issues
Enhances taste of food
Makes food more nutritious
Improves metabolism
Reduces stress
Helps in better absorption of nutrients
Helps in preventing food contamination
Enhances the overall health of the body
Regulates blood pressure
Reduces inflammation
Prevents premature aging
Helps in reducing weight
Provides relief from joint pain
Helps in treating anemia
Improves skin health
Promotes hair growth
Provides relief from migraine headaches
Helps in reducing the risk of cancer
Reduces the risk of heart diseases
Provides relief from constipation
Helps in treating respiratory disorders
Improves eyesight
Promotes healthy teeth and gums
Provides relief from arthritis
Helps in treating diabetes
Helps in reducing cholesterol levels
Reduces the risk of stroke
Provides relief from menstrual cramps
Helps in treating liver disorders
Provides relief from allergies
Helps in reducing the risk of osteoporosis
Provides relief from cold and flu
Helps in treating urinary tract infections
Helps in improving memory
Enhances brain function
Provides relief from anxiety and depression
Helps in treating insomnia
Reduces the risk of dementia
Provides relief from skin infections
Helps in treating psoriasis
Provides relief from eczema
Helps in treating fungal infections
Provides relief from sunburn
Helps in treating acne
Provides relief from rashes
Helps in treating dry skin
Helps in treating oily skin
Provides relief from skin pigmentation
Helps in reducing scars
Helps in treating dark circles
Helps in reducing wrinkles
Provides relief from skin irritation
Provides relief from dandruff
Helps in treating hair fall
Provides relief from split ends
Helps in treating scalp infections
Provides relief from stress-related hair loss
Helps in reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease
Provides relief from asthma
Helps in treating bronchitis
Helps in treating sinusitis
Helps in treating sore throat
Provides relief from mouth ulcers
Helps in treating bad breath
Helps in treating gum bleeding
Provides relief from mouth infections
Helps in treating tonsillitis
Provides relief from ear infections
Helps in treating hearing loss
Helps in reducing the risk of tinnitus
Helps in treating vertigo
Provides relief from nausea
Helps in treating diarrhea
Helps in treating dysentery
Helps in treating vomiting
Provides relief from food poisoning
Helps in treating gastritis
Helps in treating peptic ulcers
Helps in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Provides relief from indigestion
Helps in treating colitis
Helps in treating Crohn's disease
Provides relief from hemorrhoids
Helps in treating gallstones
Food
Opuntia ficus-indica is commercially produced widely in Latin America, the Mediterranean and the Middle East as a food crop. Tunas are eaten fresh or dried to be made into jellies, jams, beverages, candies, juice, and other common fruit products. Colonche is an alcoholic drink, made from the tuna juice, that has been consumed in Mexico for hundreds of years.
The nopales or nopalitos are consumed as a vegetable. Nopalitos have been eaten by ancient Americans for thousands of years and are heavily featured in Mexican cuisine. Before the sharp spines harden, the pads are harvested and sold fresh – or preserved similarly to pickles. They are a common addition to salads, eggs, tacos, beans, potatoes, and meats among other savory dishes. Nopales may also be breaded in cornmeal, fried, or served alone.
Nopales are highly nutritious and are a rich source of dietary fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. content. They are also low in calories and cholesterol, while high in protein. The importance of tuna and nopalito production in Mexico rivals that of maize and agave.
Medicine
The stems, fruit, and flowers of Opuntia ficus-indica have been used as medicine since its domestication thousands of years ago in Mexico. Prickly Pear cacti have been the focus of research studies that support its many traditional uses. Nopal cacti have proven to have diuretic, pain-killing, and anti-parasitic traits. They have also been proven to be a tonic for the cardiovascular system. The stems are commonly used to treat ailments of the liver, kidneys, and stomach. A poultice made from the roasted and crushed stems are commonly used to treat tumors and wounds while also providing external pain relief. The flowers have astringent properties and can be applied externally to reduce bleeding. Tuna juice is used to treat respiratory conditions, especially coughs. The chopped fruits have been applied for rheumatic pain and nosebleeds. Prickly Pear is also being researched for its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, memory-enhancing, anti-depressant, anti-allergenic, anti-spasmodic, and anti-microbial properties.
Tools
The thick water-retaining stems of Prickly Pear cactus can serve as a source of water in a pinch. The cacti are also used in landscapes as “live fences” to reduce erosion and to rehabilitate landscapes. Opuntia ficus-indica is being considered for its potential future in bioethanol production in arid landscapes. It has a great potential as a raw material for biogas production, thanks to the high sugar content, which is an important energy source aiding in the natural fermentation process.
In Mexico, juice from the pads is used as an ingredient in lime mortar, which is used to repair, bind, and waterproof buildings. The mucilage in the pads is naturally binding. In traditional adobe housing, the pulp from nopalitos is used to cement and water-proof building materials. Adobe buildings are made from natural materials such as sand, clay, water, and organic matter from straw and cacti. The mixture is made into bricks and dried in the sun, then used to build homes, walls, and roofs. In arid climates, such as Mexico and the American Southwest, some of the oldest existing buildings on the planet are made from adobe building materials. The Taos and Acoma pueblos in New Mexico were built from adobe in 1000 CE and are still inhabited today.
Prickly Pear is also used as a feed for livestock. Dairy farmers in its native region say that it enhances the quality of the milk. Regardless of its effect on milk, in times of drought Opuntia ficus-indica can be used as a source of water for dehydrated cattle.
Brahmi, also known as Ekpani is a herb popular for memory enhancement , and also has other medicinal properties. It can also used in cooking. Makes great raw material for chutney.
Scientific Name: Clitoria Ternatea
This plant is a profuse grower. Invasive too. Roots easily as well, from seeds. It also serves to increase the nitrogen level of the soil.
Used during nonya cake making, as in Kueh Salat (Pls see www.flickr.com/photos/lynnintokyo/7765964942/)
From PL Tandon (www.flickr.com/photos/13070711@N03/7656190646/) comes this description:
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as butterfly-pea, blue-pea, and cordofan-pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family.
In traditional Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent.
In Southeast Asia the flowers are used to colour food. It provides the blue found in nonya bak chang. In Malay cooking, an aqueous extract is used to colour glutinous rice for kuih ketan. In Thailand, a syrupy blue drink is made called nam dok anchan. In Burma the flowers are used as food, often they are dipped in batter and fried.
This is a subtle blend of Juniper Berry, Grapefruit, Rosemary and Peppermint oils known since antiquity to stimulate the mind, improve memory, enhance focus and attention.
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Heart problem? Hair loss? Damaged skin? Bad gut health? Diabetes? Constipation? Insomnia? Sore muscles?
Want relaxation?
All these health problems!!!
Have one solution.........
"The kansya thali massage machine"
About: Its a aryuvedic derived pure kansya massage machine designed specially to give you the benefits of kansya. It has customisable accupressure points for great massage experience. It helps in relaxing your muscles and give you the ultimate relaxation by also providing accupressure. This aryuvedic massage machine has the ability to remove toxins.
Just after using it for 5 minutes you can see the toxins being converted into black observable substance
ISO CERTIFIED. EXPORT QUALITY. STRONG WOODEN BODY
Body of machine: wooden body that gives you ultimate benefits of kansya. Rotates clockwise for 5 mins then anticlockwise for 5 mins which provides blood circulation all over the body. These points on kansya are designed specialy according to the vedas that is beneficial for accupressure.
Benefits: This accupressure massage machine made up of kansya provides ultimate health benefits like
• muscle relaxation
• concentration
• increase in memory power
• good gut health
• stomach problems
• improve in eyesight
• balances ph level (pith balance)
• skin glow
• prevents hair fall
• balances blood pressure
• headache (migrane)
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A Kansa Thali foot massager is a tool that is designed to provide a relaxing foot massage using the principles of Ayurveda. It is a small, handheld device that is made of pure Kansa which is believed to have healing properties.
the curved surface of the bowl is rubbed over the feet, providing a soothing massage.
The Kansa Thali foot massager is believed to have many health benefits. According to Ayurvedic principles, the use of Kansa is believed to help balance the body's energies, improve circulation, and reduce stress and anxiety. The massager is also believed to help alleviate foot pain, improve foot mobility, and relieve fatigue.
To use the Kansa Thali foot massager, the user simply needs to hold the handle and rub the curved surface of the bowl over the feet, using a circular motion. The massager can be used at any time, and is especially effective when used after a long day of standing or walking.
Overall, the Kansa Thali foot massager is a simple and effective tool that can provide a relaxing foot massage while also promoting overall health and wellness.
benefits of Kansa Thali:
Boosts Immunity
Enhances digestion
Balances Doshas: vata, pitt, kapha
Helps in maintaining the alkaline level in the body
Prevents acidity and gastric issues
Enhances taste of food
Makes food more nutritious
Improves metabolism
Reduces stress
Helps in better absorption of nutrients
Helps in preventing food contamination
Enhances the overall health of the body
Regulates blood pressure
Reduces inflammation
Prevents premature aging
Helps in reducing weight
Provides relief from joint pain
Helps in treating anemia
Improves skin health
Promotes hair growth
Provides relief from migraine headaches
Helps in reducing the risk of cancer
Reduces the risk of heart diseases
Provides relief from constipation
Helps in treating respiratory disorders
Improves eyesight
Promotes healthy teeth and gums
Provides relief from arthritis
Helps in treating diabetes
Helps in reducing cholesterol levels
Reduces the risk of stroke
Provides relief from menstrual cramps
Helps in treating liver disorders
Provides relief from allergies
Helps in reducing the risk of osteoporosis
Provides relief from cold and flu
Helps in treating urinary tract infections
Helps in improving memory
Enhances brain function
Provides relief from anxiety and depression
Helps in treating insomnia
Reduces the risk of dementia
Provides relief from skin infections
Helps in treating psoriasis
Provides relief from eczema
Helps in treating fungal infections
Provides relief from sunburn
Helps in treating acne
Provides relief from rashes
Helps in treating dry skin
Helps in treating oily skin
Provides relief from skin pigmentation
Helps in reducing scars
Helps in treating dark circles
Helps in reducing wrinkles
Provides relief from skin irritation
Provides relief from dandruff
Helps in treating hair fall
Provides relief from split ends
Helps in treating scalp infections
Provides relief from stress-related hair loss
Helps in reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease
Provides relief from asthma
Helps in treating bronchitis
Helps in treating sinusitis
Helps in treating sore throat
Provides relief from mouth ulcers
Helps in treating bad breath
Helps in treating gum bleeding
Provides relief from mouth infections
Helps in treating tonsillitis
Provides relief from ear infections
Helps in treating hearing loss
Helps in reducing the risk of tinnitus
Helps in treating vertigo
Provides relief from nausea
Helps in treating diarrhea
Helps in treating dysentery
Helps in treating vomiting
Provides relief from food poisoning
Helps in treating gastritis
Helps in treating peptic ulcers
Helps in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Provides relief from indigestion
Helps in treating colitis
Helps in treating Crohn's disease
Provides relief from hemorrhoids
Helps in treating gallstones
The Ginkgo is known as a living fossil, its history going back 270 million years. Ginkgo trees were already fossilized in the Jurassic age. The first specimen brought to North America was a gift to Thomas Jefferson for his gardens at Monticello. Today, it grows around the world as a popular landscaping tree.
The leaves reminded scholar-Officials in ancient China of an open fan, that symbolically spreads good luck. On the practical side, it was valued as a memory enhancer (appreciated by those young scholars when taking the rigorous exams of their day!).
Recent studies indicate it does not delay dementia or Alzheimer's, but some studies show it may enhance general cognitive ability - the jury's still out on this one.
Heart problem? Hair loss? Damaged skin? Bad gut health? Diabetes? Constipation? Insomnia? Sore muscles?
Want relaxation?
All these health problems!!!
Have one solution.........
"The kansya thali massage machine"
About: Its a aryuvedic derived pure kansya massage machine designed specially to give you the benefits of kansya. It has customisable accupressure points for great massage experience. It helps in relaxing your muscles and give you the ultimate relaxation by also providing accupressure. This aryuvedic massage machine has the ability to remove toxins.
Just after using it for 5 minutes you can see the toxins being converted into black observable substance
ISO CERTIFIED. EXPORT QUALITY. STRONG WOODEN BODY
Body of machine: wooden body that gives you ultimate benefits of kansya. Rotates clockwise for 5 mins then anticlockwise for 5 mins which provides blood circulation all over the body. These points on kansya are designed specialy according to the vedas that is beneficial for accupressure.
Benefits: This accupressure massage machine made up of kansya provides ultimate health benefits like
• muscle relaxation
• concentration
• increase in memory power
• good gut health
• stomach problems
• improve in eyesight
• balances ph level (pith balance)
• skin glow
• prevents hair fall
• balances blood pressure
• headache (migrane)
#massagetherapy #accupuncture #massage #footmassager #massagemachine #phisiotherapy #legmassage #aryuvedic #aryuvedicmedicine #healthylifestyle #healthy #health #kansyathali #therapy #accupressure #kansya #kansyathalifootmassage #accupressurepoints #skinglow
#hairloss #phbalance #hormonebalance #musclerelaxation
#bodyrelax #eyesight #constipation #massager
A Kansa Thali foot massager is a tool that is designed to provide a relaxing foot massage using the principles of Ayurveda. It is a small, handheld device that is made of pure Kansa which is believed to have healing properties.
the curved surface of the bowl is rubbed over the feet, providing a soothing massage.
The Kansa Thali foot massager is believed to have many health benefits. According to Ayurvedic principles, the use of Kansa is believed to help balance the body's energies, improve circulation, and reduce stress and anxiety. The massager is also believed to help alleviate foot pain, improve foot mobility, and relieve fatigue.
To use the Kansa Thali foot massager, the user simply needs to hold the handle and rub the curved surface of the bowl over the feet, using a circular motion. The massager can be used at any time, and is especially effective when used after a long day of standing or walking.
Overall, the Kansa Thali foot massager is a simple and effective tool that can provide a relaxing foot massage while also promoting overall health and wellness.
benefits of Kansa Thali:
Boosts Immunity
Enhances digestion
Balances Doshas: vata, pitt, kapha
Helps in maintaining the alkaline level in the body
Prevents acidity and gastric issues
Enhances taste of food
Makes food more nutritious
Improves metabolism
Reduces stress
Helps in better absorption of nutrients
Helps in preventing food contamination
Enhances the overall health of the body
Regulates blood pressure
Reduces inflammation
Prevents premature aging
Helps in reducing weight
Provides relief from joint pain
Helps in treating anemia
Improves skin health
Promotes hair growth
Provides relief from migraine headaches
Helps in reducing the risk of cancer
Reduces the risk of heart diseases
Provides relief from constipation
Helps in treating respiratory disorders
Improves eyesight
Promotes healthy teeth and gums
Provides relief from arthritis
Helps in treating diabetes
Helps in reducing cholesterol levels
Reduces the risk of stroke
Provides relief from menstrual cramps
Helps in treating liver disorders
Provides relief from allergies
Helps in reducing the risk of osteoporosis
Provides relief from cold and flu
Helps in treating urinary tract infections
Helps in improving memory
Enhances brain function
Provides relief from anxiety and depression
Helps in treating insomnia
Reduces the risk of dementia
Provides relief from skin infections
Helps in treating psoriasis
Provides relief from eczema
Helps in treating fungal infections
Provides relief from sunburn
Helps in treating acne
Provides relief from rashes
Helps in treating dry skin
Helps in treating oily skin
Provides relief from skin pigmentation
Helps in reducing scars
Helps in treating dark circles
Helps in reducing wrinkles
Provides relief from skin irritation
Provides relief from dandruff
Helps in treating hair fall
Provides relief from split ends
Helps in treating scalp infections
Provides relief from stress-related hair loss
Helps in reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease
Provides relief from asthma
Helps in treating bronchitis
Helps in treating sinusitis
Helps in treating sore throat
Provides relief from mouth ulcers
Helps in treating bad breath
Helps in treating gum bleeding
Provides relief from mouth infections
Helps in treating tonsillitis
Provides relief from ear infections
Helps in treating hearing loss
Helps in reducing the risk of tinnitus
Helps in treating vertigo
Provides relief from nausea
Helps in treating diarrhea
Helps in treating dysentery
Helps in treating vomiting
Provides relief from food poisoning
Helps in treating gastritis
Helps in treating peptic ulcers
Helps in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Provides relief from indigestion
Helps in treating colitis
Helps in treating Crohn's disease
Provides relief from hemorrhoids
Helps in treating gallstones
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