”There isn’t a plant more useful to man than this one, it is even more productive than corn,” it says in Marcandiers treatise of hemp (Traité du chanvre), which, back in the 18th century, was printed in many European countries. Read more...
Flower and Harvest - The Queen of Useful Plants
”Hemp is, alongside flax, one of the most useful plants with which the good Lord has blessed earth,” it says in a German ”Text and Reading Book” for girl´s schools from the year 1807, and explains: ”Male and female flowers of this vegetable bloom on two different plants. Read more...
The strongest natural fiber in the world.
‘Sooner a camel would pass through a needle´s eye, than a rich man come into heaven!’ If we follow these famous words of Jesus in the Lutherian translation, Jesus must have been something of a surrealist. Read more...
The Seed - Most precious of all grains of seed.
Hempseeds are the most precious and nutritious grain in the whole realm of plants. You can easily see whether this claim is true by calling in the experts on grain of seed – the birds. Read more...
Hempseed and Oil – the ancient No. 1 of ‘functional food’.
Hempseed is an oil-fruit consisting of approximately 30 % oil, which is considered the most precious edible oil there is. ”Its unusually well-balanced profile of fatty acid means that a person could live an entire life on hemp oil alone without suffering a shortage of essential fatty acids (EFA). Read more...
Medicine – from the shamans plant to modern officinal herb
Cannabis makes ‘the body light’ it says in mankinds oldest surviving medicinebook, the chinese ‘Pen Tsao’, put together allegedly by the mythological Emperor Shen-Nung in the year 2.737 B.C. The book advises the use of cannabis against several maladies – from gout and rheumatism to malaria and constipation and even against ‘spiritual absence’. Read more...
Prohibition
”Hashish of good quality taken moderately does hardly any harm; excessive and incessant use of bad hashish, especially together with malnutrition, has a shattering effect. (…) One believes that its use enables hard and continuous labor, does away with pain and prevents the bad effects of climatic changes. Read more...
Every text and image of these hemp informations has copyright and is token from the book "Cannabis" from Mathias Broeckers, Nachtschattenverlag (ISBN 3-85502-872-9).
