![]() ![]() Native Americans chewed or boiled tea from the leaves and inner bark to relieve fever, toothache pain, arthritis, and headache. Different willows, however, produce different edible parts and more than listed here. METHOD OF PREPARATION: Shoots, buds, young leaves boiled. TIME OF YEAR: In southern climes, year round, northern climes spring to fall.ĮNVIRONMENT: Likes it feet wet in fresh water It also has at the base of young leaves leaves that resemble mouse ears. The Carolina Willow has yellow glands on the tips of the teeth on the leaves - you will need a magnifying glass. Flowers are catkins emerging at the same time as the new leaves silk-tipped seeds released from small pods that split in the spring. Upper surfaces smooth,dark green, lower surfaces whitish stems strong, long, limber. IDENTIFICATION: Leaves alternate, simple, lanceolate 5 to 8 inches long and 3/8 to 1 inch wide. More than a generation later Peter and Gordon, and, Chad and Jeremy both recorded their own version of the song as did the aforementioned Sinatra and Etta James, whose recording is far different than Frankie’s. It just might be the song was her gift to him. She wrote film scores among many things and was more than capable of imitating Gershwin. His books on composition were standard instruction for generations of music students. However, in her defense Ronell studied with the famed Walter Piston, the leading composition teacher of the day. That is entirely possible in that the song is unmistakenly Gershwinesque. Some think Gershwin wrote the song for her and gave her the rights. Ronell was romantically involved with George Gershwin at the time and there is an amazing striking similarity in the song to Gershwin’s bluesy style. It’s now a jazz standard though Frank Sinatra did a ballard rendition. “ Willow Weep for Me” is a popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell. Caroliniana means of the Carolinas, read North America. The common willow here is Salix caroliniana (SAY-licks kair-oh-lin-ee-AY-nuh.) Salix is the ancient name for willow, possibly from either Gaelic “suil” or “seileach” tree or or willow tree, or from another part of the world Akkadian “salihu” sprinkler of water. Incidentally, the growing tips soak in a little water make a natural rooting/growth hormone for plants. The weeping willow, a standard ornamental, is also useable. Different willows offer different parts for consumption from oozing sweet sap to root tips, Check out your local willow. In most areas where the willow grow locals also used it to make baskets, cages, fishing gear and even horse bridles. The white willow yields cinnamon-colored dye. Willow bark can be a source of tannin, black dye, and cordage. It comes from the ‘A” in acetyl chloride, “spir” from Spiraea ulmaria (the plant they derived the salicylic acid from, Meadowsweet) and ‘in’ which was a familiar name ending for medicines then. The chemical eases pain by depressing parts of the central nervous system. One of its chemists, Felix Hoffmann, figured out how to mass produce aspirin. Back then the Bayer company was a dye maker. Eventually they found acetylsalicylic acid, and that is basically the aspirin of today. But artificial salicylic acid is really tough on the stomach. You see, when a person eats a willow leaf or some of the bitter inner bark the stomach provides the acid to make it salicylic acid, the pain reliever. For 60 years in the 1800s scientists tried to make an artificial aspirin that did not upset the stomach greatly. The willow’s “salicin” was the inspiration to make aspirin. In North America at least a dozen Indian tribes used willows to relieve fevers, aches, and pains. Hippocrates, who was around when the Acropolis was being built, knew that chewing leaves of willow reduced pain for childbirth, and in fact he prescribed it. Wilows have long, thin leaves with tiny teeth ![]()
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