An important and much undiscovered area of plant medicine here in the Uk and I imagine around the globe. I was looking into the uses of Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed earlier this year, knotweed is made into a soup in its native lands, I havn’t tried it, off the top of my head I think balsam can be used to heal skin conditions and seeds, flowers and leaves are edible in small amounts. Need to get some fancy foodies interested and make it popular.
'Invasivorism' is a thing already, or seeking to be. There have been attempts to do as you suggest. James Wong wrote about Jk some years ago, Silo restaurant did something with Hugh F-W et al a year or two ago, whilst recently I've contributed to this initiative: https://www.nmeplastic.com/invasive-species. Regulations tend to get in the way of it however I'm told. As for the medicinal aspects, it often seems to be the case that the more 'invasive' a plant, the more potent its plant medicine. Then if you match that with the context of their 'invasion' and the degree of habitat disturbance/wounding, you start to see a pattern.
An important and much undiscovered area of plant medicine here in the Uk and I imagine around the globe. I was looking into the uses of Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed earlier this year, knotweed is made into a soup in its native lands, I havn’t tried it, off the top of my head I think balsam can be used to heal skin conditions and seeds, flowers and leaves are edible in small amounts. Need to get some fancy foodies interested and make it popular.
'Invasivorism' is a thing already, or seeking to be. There have been attempts to do as you suggest. James Wong wrote about Jk some years ago, Silo restaurant did something with Hugh F-W et al a year or two ago, whilst recently I've contributed to this initiative: https://www.nmeplastic.com/invasive-species. Regulations tend to get in the way of it however I'm told. As for the medicinal aspects, it often seems to be the case that the more 'invasive' a plant, the more potent its plant medicine. Then if you match that with the context of their 'invasion' and the degree of habitat disturbance/wounding, you start to see a pattern.