I also read this on Facebook today - @umirais, another cancer one. But it struck me how deeply ingrained our fear of some plants is!
I met a woman today who was eating red Yew berries!!
I asked her what she was doing as I was brought up to think that they were really toxic. So toxic that even if you got some on your fingers toxic you’d drop down dead. She said she had cancer and how they were full of antioxidants and full of lovely healing stuff. She said it was the black pips inside the berry that are the poisonous bit.
As we were chatting she was spitting all the pips out and eating the berry.
I have a brain tumour and I want to be brave and try them but there is something so deep rooted in me that says absolutely no way!!
Gotta say some of what I read on those cancer threads scares me beyond regular Halloween level scared - cos they don't understand that if you trash your liver nixing the cancer, your immune system collapses and you have little chance of surviving in the long term.
Yew berries - Yikes!!
Yeah I know right!!!