Making Your Own Tinctures and Extracts - Featuring Cayenne
Holy Shit! Almost exactly repeats the "Cyanne" tincture recipe! I will definitely try it and report findings.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
"Cyanne"
Tonight I found an old Popular Mechanics magazine (from March 1947) that I'd bought over ten years ago at a long-closed secondhand book shop. Leafing through this sixty-year-old publication, I found a piece of old green-and-white striped computer printer paper covered on one side in a cryptic scrawl. It took me a minute, but then I remembered that an old chain-smoking general contractor who had finished the basement of my former house in the early '90's (or maybe it was the tree man from Culpeper who took down some big dead branches from the oak in back around the same time) had written me this recipe for a cure-all that he swore by. It's in All-Caps, which I'll tone down. Here's what it says:
"CYANNE
POWDER TINCTURE
MEXICAN HERBANO (or HERBARO)
Cyanne Peppers (Dry - Powder)
Fill any jar 1/2 to 3/4 full and pour 80 proof vodca over to just 1" above and let set min 14 days, best 28 days. Every day shake 3 times & keep in dark cabinet (Do NOT expose to sunlight!). Best squeezed out on full moon (no kidding!) at end of time using rubber gloves squeeze thru any clean cotton cloth & through away remains leaving only the liquid. CAUTION! This stuff will burn the skin if precaution is not used. It can be taken in a tee, when used on an open cut it will not burn but on an abrasion of the skin will give a harsh burning sensation but the discomfort will only last 15 to 25 min. Afterwords healing affect is grate. Note: when using on an open cut use a medicen dropper and apply internally to the cut (it will not burn) only closing any cut need only a butter fly bandage & steril gauge over, w tape to hold on. Remove bandage in 12 to 24 hrs. YOU WILL BE AMAZED."
Well, I know that capsaicin, the active heat ingredient in chile peppers, has been found to have medicinal properties (or at least they're marketing the supplement that way), so I'm determined to try it. Plus, the vodka --along with the shaking three times and the full moon part-- have me sold. And also just that fact that this resurfaced tonight, after years of being hidden away and with my remembering the only the slightest bit of its origin (pretty sure it was the contractor, who did a good job), makes it seem like a necessary experiment. It even looks cool the way it's written, like it's the real goods.
"CYANNE
POWDER TINCTURE
MEXICAN HERBANO (or HERBARO)
Cyanne Peppers (Dry - Powder)
Fill any jar 1/2 to 3/4 full and pour 80 proof vodca over to just 1" above and let set min 14 days, best 28 days. Every day shake 3 times & keep in dark cabinet (Do NOT expose to sunlight!). Best squeezed out on full moon (no kidding!) at end of time using rubber gloves squeeze thru any clean cotton cloth & through away remains leaving only the liquid. CAUTION! This stuff will burn the skin if precaution is not used. It can be taken in a tee, when used on an open cut it will not burn but on an abrasion of the skin will give a harsh burning sensation but the discomfort will only last 15 to 25 min. Afterwords healing affect is grate. Note: when using on an open cut use a medicen dropper and apply internally to the cut (it will not burn) only closing any cut need only a butter fly bandage & steril gauge over, w tape to hold on. Remove bandage in 12 to 24 hrs. YOU WILL BE AMAZED."
Well, I know that capsaicin, the active heat ingredient in chile peppers, has been found to have medicinal properties (or at least they're marketing the supplement that way), so I'm determined to try it. Plus, the vodka --along with the shaking three times and the full moon part-- have me sold. And also just that fact that this resurfaced tonight, after years of being hidden away and with my remembering the only the slightest bit of its origin (pretty sure it was the contractor, who did a good job), makes it seem like a necessary experiment. It even looks cool the way it's written, like it's the real goods.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Mullet Recipes
Mullet Recipes: "Source of information:
Results of interviews, photographing, discussion, and editing of all team members of Gold Diggers"
Results of interviews, photographing, discussion, and editing of all team members of Gold Diggers"
Friday, May 25, 2007
NPR : Crab Discovery of Interest to Genetic Scientists
NPR : Crab Discovery of Interest to Genetic Scientists
Listen online: June 19, 2005 · Rom Lipscius of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science explains what the discovery of Jerry Springer the crab -- which marine biologists call a "bilateral gynandromorph" -- means for the study of blue crab genetics.
Listen online: June 19, 2005 · Rom Lipscius of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science explains what the discovery of Jerry Springer the crab -- which marine biologists call a "bilateral gynandromorph" -- means for the study of blue crab genetics.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Getting to know you - blue crabs National Wildlife - Find Articles
Getting to know you - blue crabs National Wildlife - Find Articles
"...Observing behavior of untethered crabs in the wild is nearly impossible. Swift swimmers, crabs flee if they detect motion or any hint of approaching danger. Consequently, at VIMS, part of The College of William and Mary and the nation's foremost center for estuarine research, exploration of blue-crab ecology often occurs in the GEM (for Glucksman Experimental Mesocosm) Lab. Two huge tanks filled with sand and water from the nearby York River are stages where crabs interact with prey or predators for days at a time under the unblinking gaze of computer-controlled video cameras and in dim infrared light that simulates the nocturnal conditions in which blue crabs do much of their foraging..."
"...Observing behavior of untethered crabs in the wild is nearly impossible. Swift swimmers, crabs flee if they detect motion or any hint of approaching danger. Consequently, at VIMS, part of The College of William and Mary and the nation's foremost center for estuarine research, exploration of blue-crab ecology often occurs in the GEM (for Glucksman Experimental Mesocosm) Lab. Two huge tanks filled with sand and water from the nearby York River are stages where crabs interact with prey or predators for days at a time under the unblinking gaze of computer-controlled video cameras and in dim infrared light that simulates the nocturnal conditions in which blue crabs do much of their foraging..."
Benthic Environments VII: Shallow-Water Habitats Posters - Ocean Sciences [OS]
Benthic Environments VII: Shallow-Water Habitats Posters - Ocean Sciences [OS]: "The Importance of Benthic Macro-algae (Gracilaria) as a Refuge Habitat for Juvenile Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus
* Falls, J A (jfalls@vims.edu) , William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, P.O. Box 1346 Rt. 1208 Greate Road, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 United States
Seid, C (gs04@vims.ed) , Thomas Jefferson High School fo Science and Technology, 6560 Braddock Road, Alexandria, VA 22312 United States
Lipcius, R (rom@vims.edu) , William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, P.O. Box 1346 Rt. 1208 Greate Road, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 United States
The availability of nursery habitats for juvenile blue crabs is important to population persistence. Prior studies have shown the importance of sea grass, shallow mud flats, and marshes as nurseries for blue crab recruits. The importance of benthic macro-algae like Gracilaria has not been previously demonstrated. In summer 2005, a mesocosm predation study was used to compare the mortality of free and tethered juvenile crabs in contained mudflat and macro-algal systems. Juvenile crabs (12mm-21 mm carapace width) were placed in these systems with larger blue crabs (80mm-140 mm carapace width) as predators. The tanks were checked once or twice daily and the survival time in hours was recorded. In addition, suction sampling was used to compare juvenile crab abundance between mudflat and macro-algal habitats in the field. The results indicate that crabs survive longer in habitats with macro-algal nursery habitat, which may therefore be a critical nursery habitat. The field comparison is continuing and will be completed fall 2005. "
* Falls, J A (jfalls@vims.edu) , William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, P.O. Box 1346 Rt. 1208 Greate Road, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 United States
Seid, C (gs04@vims.ed) , Thomas Jefferson High School fo Science and Technology, 6560 Braddock Road, Alexandria, VA 22312 United States
Lipcius, R (rom@vims.edu) , William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, P.O. Box 1346 Rt. 1208 Greate Road, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 United States
The availability of nursery habitats for juvenile blue crabs is important to population persistence. Prior studies have shown the importance of sea grass, shallow mud flats, and marshes as nurseries for blue crab recruits. The importance of benthic macro-algae like Gracilaria has not been previously demonstrated. In summer 2005, a mesocosm predation study was used to compare the mortality of free and tethered juvenile crabs in contained mudflat and macro-algal systems. Juvenile crabs (12mm-21 mm carapace width) were placed in these systems with larger blue crabs (80mm-140 mm carapace width) as predators. The tanks were checked once or twice daily and the survival time in hours was recorded. In addition, suction sampling was used to compare juvenile crab abundance between mudflat and macro-algal habitats in the field. The results indicate that crabs survive longer in habitats with macro-algal nursery habitat, which may therefore be a critical nursery habitat. The field comparison is continuing and will be completed fall 2005. "
Blue Crab Life Cycle Article
from Virginia Coastal Management magazine, by Dr. "Lipscious" ... pp. 12-14
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