Beautiful pictures. Not fair.......no iris blooming here yet. Just a couple daffs. My list is growing. Will send you an email, we have not chatted for a while. Happy Easter..Need that Leprichaun's Delight and Muggles. ALso love and have to add to my want list Double Your Fun and Pink Kisses.

Frugal, I've been suggesting this for some time as well; there are soooo many people, especially young people, who have suddenly developed an aversion to gluten for there not to be some connection. My daughter has had a bad stomach for quite some time and had a REALLY bad time this past year. She's had all the tests, and as has been mentioned above, is labeled with ibs as the default diagnosis; I had to remind her this is maybe a good thing considering all the nasty possibilities, but she badly wanted something that could be cured. :) She went on the FODMAP diet (you might want to research that,) with the help of a dietician and is very, very careful about what she eats. She's vegetarian so quinoa is a staple for her, and she's found out the hard way that some prepared foods, even healthy ones, often have gluten in some form in them. For the last month or so she's been following a diet written by a woman who advocates fewer carbs (even healthy ones,) as they are turned to sugar and as has been said above, sugar is a definite irritant. The author advocates the consumption of good fats: olive oil, avacado, butter, (yes!) raw whole milk (yes! even though she hasn't had milk all year,) etc. as she says they serve a purpose in keeping the sugar level even in the blood. (I hope I got that right.) This author is not a doctor, but dd has done a ton of research on the subject and is very careful--she decided to give this theory a try. Her gastro doctor told her that once the gut is messed up, it will never be the same. That isn't to say she won't improve, but it will always be touchy.

Nearly ALL of the studies on comfrey are bogus. The primary study that puts a cloud over comfrey was where 6 month old rats were fed comfrey as 30% of their diet for an extended period of time. Unless you plan on taking it as 30% of your diet and have a rat sized liver............ anyway, more FDA attempts to make perfectly good medicine that THEY cannot control look bad. We have been using comfrey in our herbal practice of LOTS of years with no limits and have seen no harmful effects from it. As a precaution, we do not use it internally for pregnant ladies, small children or people with known liver issues. There are no problems using it externally and some of the benefits can still be obtained in that method.

This is what I need.