Photo Credits: leomalsam, Purple Pasque Flowers, #141950442, stock.adobe.com
Anemone pulsatilla - Wind Flower, Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla - a low dose herb used by experienced herbalists that supports nervous exhaustion, menstrual irregularities, and gloomy mentality with its analgesic, sedative, and spasm reducing properties
Photo Credits: Olexandr Kulichenko, Seedheads of Pulsatilla, #8460015, stock.adobe.com
Anemone pulsatilla Seed-heads
Photo Credits: Carol J Holland Foxglove on the mountain July 2025
Digitalis pupurea, - Foxglove - "The poison is in the dose" - very toxic, even deadly, by today's standards, and no longer used as a therapeutic botanical, but for over 100 years it was used in very low doses by19th century botanical physicians (Eclectics) as the primary treatment for "dropsy", now known to be the edematous result of congestive heart failure. The therapeutic cardiac glycoside constituents were isolated in 1930 for the modern day cardiac pharmaceutical Digoxin, used for arrythmias and congestive heart failure. This plant is native and grows prolifically locally in Bellingham WA.
