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| Good evening dear friends,
I am Mira, i am from Romania and i just caught the passiflora passion. recently i heard that some passifloras have medical usage.
my husband and me managed to aclimatise passiflora caerulea in our garden as well as purple rain and few others (caerulea, purple rain, aurantia/aurea, citrus, tulea, red lady margaret, incarnata and i am not very sure but it can be a macropylia) i am curious to find which of our lassies have more to offer than sheer beauty thank you in anticipation |
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| Mira, Passiflora incarnata is reported to have a mildly sedative and very slightly euphoric quality to it's leaves. I believe a tea is the most common method of ingestion, though I have not tried it. Many homeopathic "medicines" on the market contain it as an ingredient in their stress relief formulas. I heard once about someone smoking the leaves as well, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. Be careful that you know for certain which Passiflora you have, because I have also heard that some contain trace bits of arsenic. Eric |
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- Posted by miracureleanu (My Page) on Fri, Aug 7, 09 at 5:48
| Thank you Eric! I had seen on the package of the homeopat medicines only the flower of caerulea, so i hoped this is a medicinal plant as well. best of all, mira |
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- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (bhkalen@aol.com) on Fri, Aug 7, 09 at 11:00
| I've heard that P. incense has an affect similar to P. incarnata. I personally have never ingested anything besides passion fruit but I have an acquaintance that uses incense foliage brewed into a tea as a sedative/pain killer. I don't think that I'd try it. I don't know if caerulea has any medical use but it's possible the pic is used just because it's an easily recognized variety. Are you able to keep P. aurantia and Lady Margaaret outside year round? I'm also in zone 7(a) but have to keep those two in the greenhouse over the winter. |
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| Eric, I think you mean cyanide, not arsenic. Technically, they contain compounds that release cyanide when the leaves (or I think immature fruit) are damaged, such as when they are chewed. I understand the amounts can be significant enough to be toxic. Myles Irvine has a page about this on his site. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Myles' page on Passiflora toxicity
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- Posted by miracureleanu (My Page) on Fri, Aug 7, 09 at 17:26
| @Karynl i do not know yet, just planted them. we intend to let them outside over winter, but to take some parts to keep them in home. best, mira |
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- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Tue, Aug 11, 09 at 0:38
| Last year, not knowing passiflora (not even the name) I did a lot of web search. Around here (I have seen also in MO) grows in the wild a variety that is called "P. Incarnata". Its flower is a beautiful very fragrant pink/white and its leaves are 3 lobed like sassafras tree leaves. This variety is edible (leaves, flower, ripe fruit) It is said that its leaves can be eaten fresh in salad or make tea with it. I have used all parts PI, since then. Its fruit is green when unripe and turns yellow(size of small egg at most) when ripe. Also inside the ripe fruit is yellow. It has a texture and taste similar to cactus fruit, i.e. it is tart with lots of seed. So the best way is to strain it through a ss strainer and enjoy it in drinks. I also make cologn from its frowers by putting them in vodka. Actually, you can drink it too(WIK WINK). As I said, it grows wild around here but you can plant them in your garden, by a tree, treliss... But if you start from seeds don't hope for flowers first year. If you dig out roots and transsplant them (do it after frost), then you will get flowers. I don't know how to manage it in a pot because it runs long shalow roots from which more shoots will emerge. |
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