Cuidado com a Cicuta---

Todos aqueles que fizeram estudos mínimos de Filosofia, provavelmente, aprenderam que Sócrates foi condenado à morte, por envenenamento através da Cicuta, com a acusação de os seus escritos corromperem a Juventude. O que pouca gente sabe é que a Cicuta, com o abandono progressivo dos campos, foi-se tornando relativamente frequente em terras húmidas da Beira Interior. Numa comunidade cristã fixada na Beira Interior aconteceu o seguinte: " GoD mAdE a MiRacLe...

We are still in awe and thankful to God for the amazing miracle He made few days ago...Marie-Luise, the one (on the right) who is travelling with her cousin Gloria (on the left), who are staying with us since Christmas, got her life spared on wednesday by A MIRACLE...

How often we don't perceive God's miracles?!!
How often we are spared without noticng, or simply say "Wow, that was lucky !!!"
How often "luck" take the honour which belongs to God?!!
I cannot stop thanking God after seeing His deliverance and healing right in front of my eyes...
Marie-Luise took a reasonable amount of "Water Hemlock" (or "Cicuta") nicely grated into some rice in the morning...
she found the roots the day before and she thought they looked nice to eat, it looked like a carrot (it's actually from the same family) and smelled nice... a lot of us told her not to try anything without knowing what it was, but still she decided to try it next morning...
you can have a slight idea of this plant effects here and many other sites you can find on the internet, but I'll try to describe what happened...
After less than one hour after she ate the roots, she started to feel bad and went to rest in the van she was staying... After a while Gloria came to pick some milk and said Marie-Luise was not feeling good... she didn't sound so alarming, so I just told her if she would get worst we should go to the hospital...
After a while I heard Miri screaming for help...I ran down the hill as fast as I could I knew we needed to go to the hospital...
When I got to the van, our car was there already and the girls couldn't take her out of the van... she was vomiting everything, even blood, they said... her body was not functioning and her muscles would get paralized and her eyes were like she was having hallucinations ... she was also having violent reactions and one time in the car while I was driving like crazy to the hospital, Miri and Gloria told me they couldn't sense her pulse...
We ran to the emergencies of the nearest hospital as fast as possible...
After more than one hour waiting for news while Miri would go in and out to translate to Marie what was going on... Miri said she was hallucinating and it needed at least 3 or 4 people to hold her in the bed...she was really violent and thought people wanted to hurt her... she was afraid and kept bleeding everywhere... They couldn't do much more there, so she was taken by an ambulance to a bigger hospital...

So far we didn't know what plant it was, and how bad it was, and how much she really needed a miracle...
Of course we didn't stop praying since the moment we stepped in the car...
while the Ambulance took her to another hospital we went back to the land to get a sample of the plant so that could help the doctors... when we got there with the plant, they immediately identified it ... it was "Cicuta" ("Water Hemlock) ... when I heard it I could only think that Socrates died with it...
After checking more informations on the internet at night, I found out how bad it was... one of the most deadly plants in Europe and Usa...
3.3mg of it can kill a cow in less than 2 hours..."

A jovem neozelandesa, de 22 anos, na presunção de estar a utilizar um produto comestível, acabou intoxicada pela Cicuta. Felizmente, para ela e todos nós, foi possível salvá-la e livrá-la da morte. Esta planta tóxica era conhecida dos camponeses, como tal e durante a lavra dos prados havia o cuidado de retirá-la e queimá-la. Este conhecimento não é transmitido aos jovens, podendo, inadvertidamente, transformarem-se em seus utilizadores e estarem sujeitos a um envenenamento fatal. Vamos ter cuidado e incluir a formação botânica, especialmente as plantas do meio, nos estudos escolares obrigatórios