Shaving Brush Trees

By Liliana Usvat     Blog 323-365

Names

•  Shaving Brush Trees (English), 
• Chak Kuyché (Maya), 
•  Amapola (Spanish), 
•  Bombax ellipticum Bombacaceae Kapok Family. 
• Native to Mexico and rare in other regions. 

Amapola trees leafs have a join stem and alternate color from deep red wine when new to a deep green when mature; 
 
Amapola leafs are shed prior flowering with amazingly beautiful and exotic flower that develop each spring from long cylindrical buds. Birds and bees love the sweet nectar of exotic Amapola flower trees.
 

Pseudobombax ellipticum, the shaving brush tree, is a native of Mexico which loses it leaves and bears beautiful, large, single flowers with hundreds of bright pink purple stamens in the winter (December-March).  There is also a white flowered form.  Easily propagated by stem cuttings.

The four-inch long bright magenta stamens are so profuse that the flower really does look like a delicate, psychedelic shaving brush. The spiky flowers grow from the tip of bare branches before leaves appear. But the show is a quick one, and soon the base of the tree is littered with what looks to be like pink troll-doll hair.

 

Large, bisexual flower heads appear all through the year, especially in winter. The yellowish-green flowers that tend to become untidy as they develop. The tree holds onto old flowers as they slowly disintegrate. After about 1 year the seeds start being released into the wind.

Generally it grows 20-40 ft (6 – 12 m). Sometimes it can grow up to 60 ft (18m). Leaves are first bright red turning a fine green as they mature. It blooms flowers in Spring. The Flowers are silky and two types colors. Some trees bloom red flowers and some white flowers. They are looking so beautiful when they are in full bloom. The wood is interesting as well, showing stripping of greens, yellows, browns and white. For this reason the people of Central America plant the tree in their garden and the attractive flowers are used to decorate their homes and churches.  

Propagation

The fruits are collected manually from the tree before opening and dried to extract the seeds. The small seeds are manually separated from the fibers and stored under cool and dry conditions. Pseudobombax ellipticum is propagated by seeds and cuttings. Seeds require sunny locations for germination. The cuttings, 40 to 100 cm in length and 2 to 5 cm in diameter, are easily rooted when planted in bags of sand and watered daily or when planted directly in the field.

Trees Communicate

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 322-365

 
Trees communicate  trough the air and trough the ground.
They teach each other how to protect themselves from disease, lighting, insects, cold winter. They help each other to survive.

They can see, smell, telepathically communicate, feel, hear. they have few more senses that we do not have. They use the senses in a different way. All can be measured with equipment that we have available. The visible spectrum is larges that our spectrum. Meaning they see the aura of human body for example.

There are no nerves in young branches so if a young branch is cut the tree is not in pain. It is like cutting our nails It does not hurt. But woody branches are painful (for the trees.) to be cut .

The trees yell when they are cut. They feel the pain. They see a larger spectrum that we do.
The trees can predict the future and the intentions of people; Positive and negative intentions.
Trees can change the polarity and attract or reject lighting. They can act in a suicidal mission when people pollute or the quality of the life of the forest decrease.

During winter trees hibernate. They feel less ( cold )

because of the hibernation.

There is a inter species tree communication. They communicate at large distances.
There is a difference in potential between different parts of the tree. So for that reason they can be use as a source of electricity.

The trees teach each other how to communicate telepathically.

Links

http://goodnature.nathab.com/the-trees-are-talking/

Bible Tree - Cedar, Medicinal Uses

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 321-365

Cedar was the first tree in Creation and one of the most powerful medicines. Any user of alternative medicine is acquainted with the healing properties of the cedar tree. The tea of the twigs and branches is simmered until the water in the pot begins to turn brown. It is then used for fevers, rheumatic complaints, chest colds and flu. - See more at: http://margotbworldnews.com/index.html#sthash.suAVvJBs.dpuf

Cedar was the first tree in Creation and one of the most powerful medicines. Any user of alternative medicine is acquainted with the healing properties of the cedar tree. The tea of the twigs and branches is simmered until the water in the pot begins to turn brown. It is then used for fevers, rheumatic complaints, chest colds and flu. - See more at: http://margotbworldnews.com/index.html#sthash.suAVvJBs.dpuf

While the Israelites suffered in exile, God offered a vision of hope - all kinds of trees growing in the desert. “I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together...” -Isaiah 41:19

Cedar was the first tree in Creation and one of the most powerful medicines. Any user of alternative medicine is acquainted with the healing properties of the cedar tree. The tea of the twigs and branches is simmered until the water in the pot begins to turn brown. It is then used for fevers, rheumatic complaints, chest colds and flu.
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 Medicinal Uses


The leaves and tops are used for 

• chronic cough, 
• fever, and 
• gout. 
• An infusion made of 1 oz. of the tender leaves to a pint of boiling water may be taken 1 tbsp. at a time as a diuretic, 
• emmenogogue, and 
• uterine stimulant. 
•  Applied externally, it is said to remove warts and 
• fungoid growths. 
• As a counterirritant, it is useful for relief of muscular aches and pains. 
•  A salve for external application can be made by boiling a quantity of the leaves in lard.
• 

• American Indians used leaf tea for headaches, 
• colds, in 
• cough syrups, 
• in steam baths for rheumatism, 
• arthritis, 
• congestion, 
• and gout; 
• externally, as a wash for swollen feet and burns. 
•  Inner-bark tea used for consumption.
•  Doctors once used leaf tincture externally on warts, venereal warts, 
• gonorrhea, 
• syphilis, 
• prostate problems, 
• toothache, 
• whooping cough, piles,
•  ulcers, 
• bed sores, and 
• fungus infections. 
• Internally, leaf tincture was used for bronchitis, 
• asthma, 
• pulmonary disease, 
• enlarged prostate with urinary incontinence.

Folk medicine cancer remedy.
 
Native healers used red cedar for treating fevers, sore throats, coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculous infections, diarrhea, boils, heart and kidney problems, menstrual disorders, ringworm and other fungal skin infections, toothaches, arthritis, sore muscles, vaginitis, and bladder irritation. Eclectic physicians and herbalists in America and Europe have exploited Western Red and Northern White Cedar for many of the same maladies, as well as prostate problems, incontinence, and syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.

For internal use, toss a handful (about one ounce) of leaf-tips, inner bark or twigs into a cup, cover with one cupful of boiling water and steep for 10 minutes.

For external use, use about two ounces of herbal material per cupful of boiling water and steep until cool (or prepare a decoction by simmering two ounces of herb in two cups of water until about 1/2 of liquid remains). The strong tea or decoction can be used for athlete's foot. As always, if you develop skin irritation, discontinue use.

Other Uses
 

• The oil has been used as an aromatic ingredient in soap liniment. And the odor of the essential oil is pungent, almost overpowering. It is matched by a strong bitter taste. Arborvitae oil may be home distilled and used as an insect repellent.

Like Sage and Sweet grass, cedar is used to purify the home, it also has many restorative medicinal use. When mixed with sage for a tea, it cleans the body of all infections, cedar baths are also very healing. When cedar mixed with tobacco is put in the fire it crackles, this is said to call the attention of the Spirits (manitous) to the offering that is being made. 

Cedar is used in sweat lodge and fasting ceremonies for protection, cedar branches cover the floor of many sweat lodges and some people make a circle of cedar when they are fasting. It is a guardian spirit and chases away the bad spirits.

Legends, Myths and Stories

Native Americans put boughs of cedar on teepee poles, said to ward off lightning. Thunderbird was said to nest in mountain cedars. Red cedar (J. scopulorum), used ceremonially on the altar of the sacred woman at the Sun Dance.

Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest once believed that sleeping beneath a Western Red Cedar would evoke vivid dreams. During their purifying rituals, people of the First Nations drank infusions made from red cedar boughs.
 
Facts

Natives knew that mature, fallen cedars could rest upon the forest floor for generations without rotting, a property they attributed to the spiritual nature of the tree.