Some plants feed you, some plants fix you

This plant, the wild lettuce was the first plant I wrote a blog about on Steemit. If you check that, which was some days ago, it was way younger then, it's getting taller, not on the ground like before. It's growing well.

Wild Lettuce Just in case any culture adds this as food you can tell me in comments

Unfortunately, the guy that came to clear the compound cut some off but he knew it was a good plant so he tried his best to get the weeds out without touching the wild lettuce.

The wild lettuce although has lettuce in its name, is NOT food.

Have you noticed how grocery store lettuce usually tastes bland, with almost no bitterness Farmers have purposely bred bitterness out of lettuce and the original wild lettuce is wickedly bitter. I tried one last week because I was experimenting on making my own herbal medicine, it was not a good experience I'll tell you that.

Besides the bitterness, it has white sap coming out if you scratch it.

You could tell just how strong it is rooted to the ground

The white inner sap is called lactucarium, and it's meant to poison insects. The sap gets your digestive system to do the same and prevents you from experiencing pain, which is just another side effect of the sap. You can say wild lettuce is doing your body a favor.

The young leaves are slightly less lethal, but the older leaves grow some little hairs which make the leaves about as tough as wood, and just as unchewable. There's no stage where you can look at this plant and think that would make a good salad base. I am never experimenting with that idea.

Wild lettuce is usually used as a slightly lesser, more natural and stimulant free alternative to traditional medicines. You can boil the young leaves to make teas to help with sleep and pain.

Like I said initially, wild lettuce is a medicinal herb, it is not food. It shouldn't be compared to plants that feed you and it's wrong to say that wild lettuce was used as a superfood many years ago and that people have since forgotten wild lettuce like a food plus super remedy. It's true that wild lettuce can sometimes work as a remedy. Wild lettuce doesn't give sustenance. This distinction is important and this plant is unambiguously on one side.

Herbal Plant

No Insects around

Understanding what you are dealing with is very important in deciding what you will do. This plant has its uses and that use is definitely not on a plate for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

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