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Jun 30Liked by Jenna Woginrich

Have you tried using plantain (Plantago major or Plantago lanceolata) for your abscess?

Gathering the plant fresh, chewing it into a "wad" (think chewing tobacco) and then packing it around the abscess in your mouth can help to pull out the infection. Hold it between your cheek for a while, discard and reapply. Matthew Wood (a very well known herbalist) writes about one of his clients having an awful abscess and not being able to get to the dentist for a few days. By using the aforementioned tactic, she was able to pull out several "caterpillar" sized gobs of puss, mitigating the pain and infection until she could get to the dentist.

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I’ll look into it!

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Jun 30Liked by Jenna Woginrich

Yes!! The Bear is amazing, painful and sooo well written and acted! My favorite episode so far has been the Christmas celebration episode. Talk about family drama!! I think what I so appreciate about Carmen’s character is how powerfully he embodies the ways in which our demons can overshadow our gifts, and that is why it’s a battle worth fighting over and over again!!!

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Forks was my favorite (episode right after that). Fishes was a triumph of television and I’ll watch Sarah Paulson do anything (my car is named after her wife!) but all that untreated mental illness destroying a family (and house) was hard to watch. The reactions on YouTube are amazing though!

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Apologies to Ayo Edebiri, whom I called Aydu like a real dummy.

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Likes and comments help so much! Thank you!

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*correction: I'm a hunter and butcher's granddaughter, my parents were in business and education.

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