Twinberry
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:57 am
I discovered this word a few months ago and remembered it now. It,s a shrub of western North America and a creeping woody vine of eastern North America.
There are those who think contraceptives and abortifacients are modern inventions, crafted by wicked atheists opposed to the missionary position and intent on preventing the fulfilment of the biblical imperative. Nothing could be further from the truth, as can easily be shown by a peep in any good book on traditional usages of plants. The real imperative at the time was that of maintaining the population within the bounds of sustainability. Now that we are going on our seventh thousand million, perhaps we need to learn from earlier generations....The twigs and stems were employed medicinally for digestion problems and as a contraceptive.