III: Borage
Why the plant with a funny name is the best weed.
Good morning. Today is tridi, the 23rd of Floréal, Year CCXXXI. We celebrate la bourrache, a flower, a vegetable, and an herb!
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Borage is one of those traditionally medicinal herbs that turns out to have an actual effect, not just a placebo. Most commercially farmed borage is harvested for the seed oil, which is effective at treating skin burns and rashes, and provides significant relief to people with eczema.
Borage has a bad reputation. Actually, it's reputation among those who know of it is stellar – borage lovers will go on and on about it. But if today is the first time you're hearing the word "borage" then that's what I mean. In a just world, where the name of a plant doesn't have to do all the marketing for it, borage would be well known and celebrated while dandelions would be those little yellow guys that nobody knows the name of.
