The Five Year Plan

Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
#21

I want to add that my vision has improved ever since I began eatting Miner’s Lettuce from the Purslane Family. I didn’t begin eatting it too improve my vision though, I began eatting it for it’s nutrition, wildness purity, and taste. After eatting it for about three years I later learned from “Peterson Field Guide: Western Medicanal Plants and Herbs” that it also improves vision. I’ll try to post more medicine and herbs that help heal and improve our vision later. Later.

p.s. So far I’ve learned that miner’s lettuce is a medicine with zero side-effects.

#22

On top of that above, I also hope to finish some of my sung songs and learn to play a whole song using a flute, drum or didgeridoo.

I have a song. Here I go:

I love to walk with the forest, I love to swim with the sea, I love to make cedar shelters, and shirts out bamboo leaves…la la la la.

#23

I went on a 3 day bike trip a few months ago. On the second day, I noticed my reading distance had doubled (from 6" to a foot). Of course, when I returned and got back to computery, it went downhill again.
Anyway, just thought it was interesting how quickly it can change. I’ve had myopia since I was 10 (after I got hit by a car while riding a bike…). I’ve had success with eye exercises also (but nothing as dramatic or rapid as whatever happened on the bike trip).

#24

I thought before I did this search I’d find fewer species. I guessed wrong.
The follow plant species have eye improving properties and have little or no harmful properties to us; most have none.

Referring from Peterson Field Guides: Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs□ Foamflower “Tiarella cordifolia “Saxifrage Family” “[used to treat or cure] eye ailment” ‘rich woods
□ Eyebright “WARNING: experimentally, may induce side effects, including dim vision. Avoid use without physicians’s advice.
â–¡ Narrow-Leaved Plantain
□ heal-all, self-heal “whole plant” [used]
□ Caroline Allspice “cold Tea used as eye drops for failing sight.” “WARNING: Grazing cattle have been reported to have a toxic reaction to eating this plant.
□ Witch-Hazel “Hamamelis virginiana”
□ White Mulberry “Morus alba” “Fruits eaten for blood deficiency, to IMPROVE VISION and circulation, and for diabetes.”

Referring from Peterson Field Guides: Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs
□ miner’s lettuce “improve vision”
â–¡ Eye Bright “WARNING: Avoid use without a qualified health practitioner’s advice” “…other Euphrasia species have been used similarly and interchangeably.”
□ Mountain Sweet Cicely “[treats or cures] eye problems “WARNING: Do not confuse with Poison Hemlock (Conium); see p.60.”
□ Western Sweet Cicely “Osmorhiza occidentalis”
□ Self-Heal, Heal-All “Prunella vulgaris L.” “Mint Family” “WARNING: Avoid use during pregnancy.”
□ Plantago major “Plantain Family”“
□ “Bark tea of Sweetshrub, Calycanthus floridus., was used for hives and urinary tract disorders and as an eye medicine for people who were losing their sight.” “WARNING: Grazing cattle have been reported to have a toxic reaction to eating this plant.” “[use] bark”
□ Broom Snakeweed “Gutierrezia sarothra” Composite Family”
â–¡ White Mulberry “small tree” “Morus alba” “…improve vision and circulation…”
â–¡ Cattail

Referring from Wild Medicinal Plants by Schneider
â–¡ blue berry
â–¡ celandine
â–¡ chamomile
â–¡ cinquefoil
â–¡ common speedwell
â–¡ eye bright
â–¡ mallow
â–¡ mugwort
â–¡ raspberry
Referring from Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Rockies
□ Heath Family, Blueberry “leaves contain moderately high concentrations of tannins.”
□ Heath Family, Low Bilberry “contain anthocyanosides, which are said to improve night-vision.”

I’ve stopped the search here for now…

#25

I’ve been researching eye exercises to improve vision but I don’t think I will go with it. My eyes are pretty bad. My contact prescription is -5.00 and -5.50 and even if it worked it would take a long time and if they only got half good and then stopped I would still see so poorly that it would be worthless. Plus let’s say it does work. I’ve been wearing the same glasses for five years because it is too expensive to get new ones. If my contact prescription changed every month or even every year I would have to get new glasses and contacts and go to the eye doctor all the time and that would be more expensive than getting the corrective surgery. I think the best route for someone with eyes as bad as mine would be to get the corrective surgery and then do the eye exercises to keep them from reverting.

Now my question is I need new contacts and my prescription at the eye doctor is expired. I don’t want to go for a visit. Will any of the places online sell me contacts without one? Do they really check?

#26
Do they really check?

I would bet they do. They don’t call it a prescription for shits and giggles. I’ve never tried to get contacts online and been turned down, but I’ve had optical stores turn me down because the Rx had expired. Apparently, prescriptions expire at different times in different states, too. In Arkansas, they last 2 years and in NY they only lasted 1 year. So maybe you can find some place that has a longer expiration period for prescriptions?