“Herbal remedies for trichomonas are among the least impressive home remedies. None are more than 50 percent effective.” (1)

Trich is short for trichomonas: a single-celled, four-tailed, protozoan parasite. About five million new cases of trich are diagnosed yearly in the USA.

Trich is normally present in a woman’s vagina, intestines, and rectum without causing problems. Trich is pH sensitive. When the vagina becomes alkaline, trich overwhelms the healthy flora and causes symptoms. A trich infection, or overgrowth, is difficult to diagnosis (without a microscope) and harder still to kill (without poisons).

Trich is an STD and can be spread by intimate contact. But sex is not required; hardy trich can live in wet, warm places like toilet seats, towels, underwear, and swimsuits.

In women, symptoms of trich infection include a thin, foamy, itchy vaginal discharge that is yellowish green or gray in color and foul/fishy in odor. Infected men are often symptom-free.

Trich can move from the vagina into the urethra and up into the bladder, leading to a urinary tract infection. Conversely, if you have a UTI that won’t respond to treatment, it might be trich; check it out.

The homeopathic remedy for women with vaginal discharges that are green and itchy is Sepia.

In my experience, herbs that can coat and dessicate the trichomonas kill them about as well as poisons, either herbal or pharmaceutical.

Powdered charcoal, the kind used against poisoning, is so fine that it drowns the parasite; it also makes a black mess on everything, from your underwear to your sheets and towels.

Oak bark is a first class antimicrobial and drying agent; sitz baths are a classic way to use oak.

Milled medicinal clay, such a kaolin, can be used to dry out and coat the vagina and the trich, likewise, slippery elm bark powder.

The easiest way to use any one of these herbs is buy them already powdered and in capsules. If 4-6 capsules are put well up into the vagina, against and behind the cervix, body heat and vaginal moisture will dissolve them, freeing the agent within. For best results, repeat at least once a day for two or three weeks.

The alkaloid berberine sulfate – found in tinctures of the roots of barberry (Berberine vulgaris), gold thread (Coptis groenlandica), golden seal (Hydrastis canadensis), Oregon grape (Berberis repens), and yellowroot (Xanthorrhiza simplicissima) – is an antimicrobial agent shown to inhibit the growth of – and to induce morphological changes in – Trichonomas in the lab and in the field. A study in India found a Trichomonas-free rate of 90% in berberine sulfate group and 95% of the drug group; at the one month follow up, 83% of the berberine group and 90% of the drug group were still free of trich. The authors of the study commented on the lack of side effects in those receiving berberine.(2) The anti-trich dose of any berberine-rich tincture is 10-20 drops several times daily for 3-4 weeks.

Several weeks of hysterical hygiene are called for when dealing with a trich infection. Strip your bed and your bathroom and wash everything, using bleach or vinegar. Wash your hands after toileting. Swab off the toilet seat with dilute bleach. Remember, trich is hard to kill and persistent.

The standard treatment for trich infection is Metronidazole (Flagyl), a “highly toxic drug that is often ineffective due to resistance, particularly by trichomonas …”(3) Flagyl is a very strong antibiotic; it is not safe for pregnant or nursing women, or anyone with a blood disease, a peptic ulcer, or a central nervous system disorder. Side effects – lowering of white blood cells (which fight infection), nausea/vomiting, headache, diarrhea, joint pain, flushing, a metallic taste in the mouth, and numbness in the extremities – are common and are worsened by consumption of alcohol, vinegar, and mayonnaise. Coltrimazole is a milder drug with fewer side effects; it has a sixty percent cure rate against trich infections.

Herbalist and healer Joy Gardner says regular use of spermicidal jelly can help prevent trich infections.

European herbalists, including my friend Rina Nissim, swear by essential oils to kill all manner of vaginal infections. Valerie Ann Worwood suggests a blend of 5 drops tea tree EO, 4 drops cypress EO, 8 drops lavender EO, and 3 drops red thyme EO to get rid of trich. Of this mixture, she uses four drops diluted in two cups water, or a cup of yogurt, or a teaspoon of olive oil and applied inside the vagina.

Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment. Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom. Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula for you. All material contained herein is provided for general information purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation. Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in need of medical care. Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion.

Footnotes:

1. Rina Nissim, Natural Healing in Gynecology, Pandora, 1986

2. S. Gupre, Am J Des Child, 129(866), 1975 (quoted in “Antimicrobial Actions of Berberine Sulfate,” D. Hoffman, Townsend Letter

3. M Torii, et al “In vitro effects of berberine sulfate on the growth of Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas vaginalis,” Annals Tropical Med Parasitol, 85(417 25), 1991

Over the last year, I've been doing quite a bit of yard work myself, and I've done a few experiments. There's one I'd like to explain to you, it is a case study and observation which may be of value to your work if you are an evolutionary biologist working with plant life. Let me explain.

While I was gardening I saw a weed that had its leaves upside down. It did not grow as big as the other weeds of its type, obviously it was not getting the sunlight since the leaves were facing the other way, but there must have been enough energy for the weed to at least grow to a smaller size . I decided to leave the little weed, and take out the bigger weeds surrounding it which had grown correctly. Each week I came back to see how it was doing, and it never grew much bigger and other weeds of its type had grown up around it, and every once in a while there was another weed of that type with the leaves also growing upside down .

Could it possibly be that that particular weed had a genetic defect, one that was passed down to subsequent generations? This happens in animal life all the time, where you get genetic mutation which is passed on. It's clear why this doesn't happen very much, because the other weeds of its type will suffocate it and grow bigger taking all the sunlight, so the smaller version with the genetic mistake cannot reproduce. In a way that is survival of the fittest.

However when we intervened and took out the larger weeds and let the defective one grow, it did pass on these traits and it had viable offspring even if those genetic offspring were deficient. So let's ask a question:

Do these weeds skip a generation with the genetic defects just as humans and animals do?

In the wild while there would not be a human around to protect them so the chances of them passing on this defect would be slim, but it would happen, and we can see evolution in weeds take place before our eyes. Having upside down leaves makes it hard for the weed to grow and harvest the sunlight energy it needs, but still grows a little bit.

It's amazing what you can learn when you observe things, I suppose someone who was just doing their gardening would've pulled the weed, and not thought anything of it, but in this case it had caught my eye because it was out of place, unique, something different, and eventually I realized what was going on. You too can do experiments like this in your own backyard, I would submit to you that you should enjoy life and be more observant of the other types of life around you, because all life is interesting. Please consider all this and think on it in 2015.

Do you want the perfect golf swing trainer? As you know, there are many swing trainers available on the market today, but which one is the best? I found the perfect swing trainer a number of years ago and I still use it to tune up my swing. You can still find these at hardware stores occasionally. If you cannot find one at your local store, ask around, especially with the more “mature generation” and they will be able to locate one for you.

The tool I am talking about is the weed whip, the yo-yo, the idiot stick, or the weed cutter, as it may be known, depending upon where you live. It is essentially a heavy blade mounted on the bottom of a wooden handle, and is swung back and forth to cut weeds. It is shaped like an exaggerated putter with a cutting edge rather than a putting face. You should be able to procure one of these at a very cheap price or even free. They have been replaced with the string trimmer or weed eater. Leave your power string trimmer in the garage and cut the weeds with this old fashioned weed whip occasionally. This tool is much heavier than your golf clubs.

You will get a number of great benefits from this:

You will get the weeds cut.

You will learn the feel of perfect swing through impact.

You will learn the feel of perfect release. The weed whip will force this by design.

You will perfect your backswing and downswing without even thinking about them.

You will experience the feeling of perfect rhythm. The weight of this tool will force rhythm.

Your legs and hips will automatically learn to support your body correctly.

You will understand the feel of total body involvement and synchronization.

You will feel the “club head”.

You will develop stronger swing muscles.

You will hit your next tee shot much farther and straighter.

You never have to concentrate on swing positions and all the other distractions to good golf swings. This tool simply makes you swing correctly because of its design. I guarantee there is no better golf swing trainer available.

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Approximately 300 million pounds of glyphosate are used on US crops each year. Glyphosate is sold as RoundUp.

This bears repeating. The food grown in our country – that we eat – receives 300 million pounds of a deadly weed killer every year. This equates to about a pound of plant killer for every one of us in the United States each and every year.

Next time you are at a hardware store or garden center, look at the gallon jug of RoundUp. Now imagine that you have consumed that amount of the toxic weed killer throughout the last year …

A weed killer is designed to destroy. Extinguish life. So, receiving a pound of glyphosate per person each year means that we are eating poison. You wouldn't dream of chugging a gallon of RoundUp so why would you want to eat it via your food?

Putting a weed killer on plant crops doesn't make sense. Wouldn't a weed killer kill the crops? How can this be?

That is the extra crazy, straight out of science fiction reality of this situation. Glyphosate has actually been inserted into the DNA of crops. Yes, that is right. Scientists have figured out how to alter chromosomes of corn, soy, and many other crops by taking out the natural chromosomes and replacing them with chromosomes of a weed killer.

The practice of putting RoundUp DNA inside the DNA of crops meant for us to eat is known as Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs. Most industrialized countries outlaw GMOs. But not the United States.

And why on earth, would anyone want a weed killer in the DNA of food crops? Cue up the creepy background music because this is truly out of a horror movie …

Let's use corn since corn is a HUGE crop in the United States. If a crop of corn is GMO and has glyphosate in the DNA, then all other weeds that grow within the crop can be sprayed with RoundUp – and not affect the corn. That is the source of the 300 million pounds of glyphosate each year.

Once the glyphosate is sprayed on the corn, it leaches into the soil. It is then taken up through the roots of the plant and becomes even more concentrated inside the corn kernels that we eat. And not just corn on the cob – it is in all corn chips, tortillas, cereals and just about everything that is sweet because much is flavored with high fructose corn syrup. Are you beginning to see how you are drinking that jug of weed killer each year?

Options are to grow your own food, only buy organic, and to speak up often and loudly so that the food industry stops this madness.

If you are a regular, heavy pot smoker, perhaps it is time to admit that certain things in your life are miserable because of weed, things that could almost instantly change if you just stop smoking.

If you have lied to yourself for long enough about your smoking habit and how it affects you, and you’re finally ready to try quitting, here is what you can expect.

The Negative First…

You may have heard you will experience some side effects after quitting-things like depression, irritability, sleep difficulties, etc-and you probably will, but these symptoms are temporary and manageable. There are even a few tricks to avoid most of them. Believe me, with time you will get over it. Whatever you do, don’t let a few side effects get in the way of your health and well-being.

The 5 Instant Health Benefits of Quitting Marijuana

Breathe. In just a few short weeks after quitting marijuana entirely, your lung function will begin to improve and you’ll have more energy and stamina. Not quitting could mean a number of bronchial and respiratory illnesses, including bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.

Sleep. Proper sleep is extremely vital to your overall health, and studies have shown that marijuana use has a negative impact on your sleep cycles and the quality of your sleep. Most marijuana users report the absence of dreams and restless sleep when using, largely because the drug interrupts the REM cycle which is necessary for both dreams and complete rest. However, in just a few short days after quitting marijuana, your body will return to its normal patterns and you’ll finally get the sleep you need.

Mood. Smoking weed affects your mood whether you’re high or not. When using, your mood may be lethargic and apathetic, and you may feel like you’ve not a care in the world. But when you’re not high, you become irritable and anxious. This kind of stress and anxiety can play havoc on a number of different organ systems in the body, including your heart. Once you quit smoking marijuana, however, your mood will eventually stabilize and you will not experience so many highs and lows.

Memory and Learning. Researchers have proven that regular marijuana use affects both your memory and your ability to learn, and long-term use may impact these two areas permanently. The sooner you rid yourself of your pot habit, the sooner your memory and ability to learn will return to normal.

Sex. Thinking about having kids? Not only does smoking marijuana decrease your sex drive and performance, it may also cause infertility. In a number of independent studies, people smoking marijuana were far less interested in sex than peers from the same age group. Moreover, THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, has been proven to cause infertility in men and women alike, mostly due to the way the chemical affects the sperm. Don’t worry, though, shortly after quitting marijuana your sex drive will return to normal, and with marijuana completely expelled from your body your fertility will improve dramatically.

Despite what pro-legalization advocates want you to believe, marijuana is a drug, and as with any drug there are certain dangers involved. Fortunately, it’s not too late. If you quit marijuana today, most of these symptoms will disappear and you will be on the road to health and happiness.

Have you ever known a boy who always manages to be first in line? Instead of waiting his turn, he pushes ahead to grab the first hot dog at a picnic or the best seat in the auditorium. Instead of sharing with his neighbors, he takes the biggest helping of ice cream or the last cookie on the plate.

In the rough-and-tumble plant world, weeds are like this boy. If plowed land lies idle, weeds will take it over. Left to themselves, they will take over a garden. They grow vigorously, send strong root systems far into the ground, and reproduce at a rapid pace. They crowd out the cultivated plants by robbing them of minerals, water, sunshine, and growing space.

It is not easy to say what a weed is, for the name has nothing to do with plant classification. But weeds are usually defined as plants that grow where they are not wanted. A dandelion in the middle of a lawn is a weed; dandelions cultivated for fresh greens are not weeds.

Clover sown in a pasture is not a weed; clover in a flower bed is a weed. Sometimes one man’s weed is another man’s wild flower. City people gather daisies, buttercups, goldenrod, and black-eyed Susans. But the farmer who sees these flowers in his hayfield says, “Weeds!” and sets out to get rid of them.

Weeds, then, are plants that are out of place. And they are plants with a special ability for rapid and vigorous growth. In one way or another, weeds are better fitted to survive than most cultivated plants.

When the particular weed killer Roundup had been introduced in the seventies, it demonstrated it could eliminate almost any plant yet still be safer than many other herbicides, plus it helped farmers to quit harsher chemicals and lower tilling which could promote erosion. But 24 years later, a few sturdy species of weed resistant to Roundup have evolved, forcing farmers to go back to some of the less environmentally safe practices they abandoned many years ago.

The situation is the worst within the South, in which a number of farmers now walk fields with hoes, killing weeds in a way their great-grandfathers were happy to leave behind. And the issue is spreading quickly across the Corn Belt and beyond, with Roundup today appearing unreliable in killing at least 10 weed varieties in around 22 states. Some species, like Palmer amaranth in Arkansas and water hemp as well as marestail within Illinois, develop fast and huge, producing tens of thousands of seeds.

These have started to become such a big deal and people don’t know or care about this at all. This is the common sentiment by the locals and agronomists who cultivate soybeans as well as cotton close to the southern Illinois community of Creal Springs. When you have these things and deal with them, they become such real big problems. When Monsanto presented Roundup in 1976, it was like the most wonderful thing since sliced bread. This is what these developers of corn and soybeans next to Auburn in central Illinois think in with this decision.

The grass killer, known generically as glyphosate, is ingested by means of plants’ leaves and kills them by obstructing the production of proteins they need to grow. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency views it to have little toxicity to people and animals, and aside from the plants it’s dispersed on, it’s much less of a threat to the environment because it quickly adheres to soil and becomes inactive. Monsanto’s introduction of seeds made to survive Roundup made things better yet for farmers because they could spray it on rising crops to eliminate the weeds thriving along with them.

Seeds that contain Monsanto’s Roundup Ready characteristics are actually utilized to grow about 90% of the nation’s soybeans and 70% of the corn as well as cotton. With increased reliance on Roundup, herbicide use on corn decreased from 2.76 lbs an acre in 1994 to 2.06 in 2005, the most recent year for which the U.S. Department of Agriculture has information. Spread that out over the 81.8 million acres planted in 2005, and it’s a decline of greater than 57 million pounds of herbicides each year. Farmers also observed they are able to cut back, or in some cases remove tilling, reducing erosion and fuel use. However with any herbicide, the greater it’s utilized, the more probable it’ll encounter individual plants within a species which have just enough genetic deviation to endure what will kill most of their kin. With each generation, the survivors signify a larger percent belonging to the species.

There are many names which the Japanese knotweed can be known as; Reynoutria japonica, Fallopia japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum are the scientific names for the Japanese knotweed. Reynoutria japonica is the oldest name given in 1777 by Houttuyn, a renowned Dutch botanist.

This name became lost over 10 decades with the weed named as Polygonum cuspidatum by Siebold and Zuchharini in 1845. Today, its main scientific name is Fallopia japonica.

International renown

The Japanese knotweed is internationally known in local names such as American bamboo, Mexican bamboo, fleece flower, donkey or sally rhubarb, pea shooters, monkey weed, elephant ears, Hancock’s curse, crimson beauty, Huzhang and wild rhubarb.

This weed species belong to the Polygonaceae knotweed family which include the rhubarb, sorrel and buckwheat. This large herbaceous weed species is native to China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. It was first introduced to the USA and Europe in the 19th century.

Uses

The Japanese knotweed is quite versatile in its uses. It was originally intended to feed field animals, prevent soil erosion and be a decorative plant with its small white and creamy flowers. Its root extract was highly sought after for Chinese medicine.

Its young shoots can be eaten as vegetables and its stalk rind can be used in jams, soups and sauces. It can be made into a dessert dish with some creative culinary skills and condiments.

Downside

However, this weed plant is considered as one of the most invasive weed species on every continent; hence, efforts are made to stem it out through various eradication treatments. UK ha a law against the spread of this weed species in its 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Australia and New Zealand have also encountered much difficulty in controlling the wide spread growth of this weed. It can damage almost any surface be it wall or ground. Foundations of buildings can be cracked and become unstable with the presence of the Japanese knotweed.

A small shoot of this weed can push its way out of any tiny crack to cause massive damages. Hence, pavements, drains, roads, buildings, flood defenses, historical buildings, archaeological sites and even cemetery can be damaged by the Japanese knotweed.

The rapid growth of this weed plant can overtake river banks to prevent access to the rivers. Native plants are crowded out by the Japanese knotweed and soon go into extinction. Land value plummets with the presence of the knotweed. Eradication of this weed plant is difficult, costly and not guaranteed. 

Ever wondered how long marijuana stays in your blood? How long does marijuana stay in your system? It cannot be denied that the effects of weed produce a high that you can feel for a short time. This is what makes pot so attractive and relaxing. Most users love the benefits they get from weed. When you are high, this means that you tend to have an altered perception state, chattiness, giggling, feeling as if time has slowed down, a sense of relaxing and a real sense of well-being.

Of course, when it comes to wondering how long does marijuana stay in your system, the truth is that too much of a good thing has its price. In fact, what most people don’t talk about are the other less-beneficial effects of weed. To them, the benefits they feel when they are high far outweigh the disadvantages of weed. Nonetheless, knowing about the other side of weed is highly advisable. Making informed choices is always beneficial.

Short Term Effects

Short term effects of weed also include paranoia, anxiety, feeling faint, feeling sick, confusion, dry eyes, dry mouth, rapidly beating heart, feeling restless, sleepy, problems with coordination, an increase in appetite and not being able to focus very well. For this reason, you might even be pulled over when you smoke and drive. You could be driving in a wobbly manner without even realizing it.

how long marijuana stays in your system will go a long way towards helping you anticipate the length of time it remains in your blood. Plus, if you have a drug test coming up, it is always a good idea to find out what test they are doing. Are they doing a blood test? A hair test? A urine test? Knowing what kind of test is coming up will enable you to know how many days before is safe to smoke weed.

Lesser Known Effects Of Pot

Pot can also cause psychosis, delusions and hallucinations in rare cases when your dose of weed is extremely high. Ingesting weed or smoking pot on a daily basis can also affect your body and mind. You might increase your risks of having impaired learning, impaired memory, impaired cognition, anxiety, depression, other mood disorders, lung infections, bronchitis, respiratory illness, stroke, heart disease and cardiovascular diseases.

When you smoke weed while you are breastfeeding or happen to be pregnant at the moment, there is an increase in the risks of your baby having brain development defects or birth defects.

But Really, How Long Does Marijuana Stay In Your System?

After your last use of weed, it can remain in your system for between a few days and many months. Depending on various factors and the drug testing method, weed will pass through your system at varied lengths of time. It will also depend on whether you actually ate the weed or smoked it. If you have a drug test coming up soon at the office it is a good idea to get as informed as you can about how long pot stays in your blood.

After all, depending on your job requirements, it is not a good idea to have marijuana detected in your body tissues even if it is legalized in your state. The reason is that your company or school may not tolerate the effects of pot on your learning and memory. For example, law school or law firms as well as persons that operate machinery should definitely not have marijuana running around in their system as they do their jobs.

There are short term effects of weed and these start tapering off after 1-3 hours. Other effects such as having a hard time sleeping or problems with your memory can last more than a day or two. Depending on your system, the effects will wear off after quite some time. These can last for months, weeks or days after your last use of weed. In fact, some of the effects never wear off and can even become permanent.

Have you been wondering about how long it takes to get rid of the weed in your system? More and more institutions are testing for weed as required for work or as routine, general testing, whether or not weed is legal in the state you live in. As a matter of fact, regular testing is more and more par for the course for most people who attend school, work at an office or even just driving strangely on a freeway. No matter what the reason is, it is always a good idea to know everything you can about how long it takes for pot to get eliminated from your system.

But really, how long does weed last? Well obviously, it is going to take longer for weed to leave your system if you are a heavy user. On the other hand, social smokers who barely use weed won’t have to worry too much about weed leaving their system in a shorter amount of time. Keep in mind, however, that hair follicles do hold weed for up to ninety days after your last use so if a thorough test is performed on you, they may find it in your hair.

It is actually THC that tests detect, which is what they call broken down weed in your body. How long does THC stay in your urine? How long does THC stay in your blood? It really varies. When it comes to how long does weed stay in system, the fact is there are many things affecting the length of time that marijuana remains in your body. Some factors include body mass index, gender and age. In other words, different types of bodies process marijuana differently.

Also, the way you actually use weed affects how this is used. This includes how often you use weed and how much of it you use when you do. Obviously, more frequent usage of higher doses will increase the time it takes to get rid of the weed in your body. More potent weed has high THC doses compared to lower quality types. Good quality weed which has higher THC will remain in your system longer than bad quality weed. When you eat weed, this stays in your system longer than weed you smoke.

Have you been wondering how long does pot stay in your system? Also known as cannabis or marijuana, weed is usually detected in the fluids of the body for between one and thirty days after you use weed last. As with any drug, it can be detected in hair for many months. How long does weed last? The window for detecting weed will generally depend on how much you have ingested or smoked. It will also depend on how often you smoke. Generally, a larger, more frequent dose of week will be related with longer times of detection possible.

For everyday weed users, marijuana can be detected for a many months after you last use it. Some frequent users can sometimes be detected for up to ninety days. Regardless of how often you use weed, there are windows for detecting cannabis in hair, saliva, blood and urine.

How Long Does It Take To Break Down Weed In Your Body?

Weed has an active ingredients called delta-9 tetrahyrocannabinol, also known as THC. This is weed’s active ingredient and is what most tests detect. THC goes into your system and your blood absorbs it. Some of the THC is stored in your fat tissues and organs. When THC goes to your kidney, your blood can re-absorb it.

It is in the liver where THC is broken down. There are a lot of different metabolites that THC breaks down into. What a drug tests does is that it looks for these metabolites which stays in your bloodstream even longer than THC.

Later, as days pass and you don’t use any more weed, the metabolites including TCH are washed out of your body through your stool and urine.

How Long After You Last Used Marijuana Can Drug Tests Detect It?

When you go through a drug test, what the tests measure are not the plant itself but rather, the byproducts, which are called metabolite. After the effects of marijuana has worn off, the weed by products remain in your system for a very long time.

How To Get Marijuana Out Of Your System?

To be honest, there isn’t a lot of tings you can do to get rid of the marijuana that has found its way into your tissues in your body. Just like pretty much everything else, it takes time for weed to be broken down and eliminated once it is in your body. Staying hydrated, which means drinking a lot of water, eating healthy food and exercising can help excrete marijuana more rapidly, but not very much.

There are many detox remedies for weed as well as kits you can avail of. Some of it involves tea and drinking a lot of water to get rid of weed in your urine. Using herbs like vitamin B12 and creatinine is supposed to mask the weed in your pee, but are not really one hundred percent reliable.

Hair–How Long Does Weed Stay In Your Hair?

Testing hair follicles to test whether or not you used weed can be done for up to ninety days after you last smoked, ate or inhaled weed. Believe it or not, marijuana gets to each hair follicle on your head through tiny blood vessels. Of course, very small amounts can remain in each hair. Hair grows about half an inch per month. Thus, a hair section measuring about one and a half inches that grows closest to your scalp will provide an indication of whether or not you used weed for the last 3 months or ninety days.

Saliva Testing–How Long Does Pot Remain In Your Saliva?

Weed can be found in saliva through testing. If you don’t use weed very often, the saliva test will reveal cannabis between one and three days. On the other hand, if you are a heavy user, saliva tests will reveal weed in your blood for up to twenty-nine days. You can have weed in your saliva even if you are simply exposed to the smoke. It will obviously be detected when you smoke weed directly. The metabolites or by products of weed can be found in saliva when weed has been ingested or smoked. When getting tested in states in which weed is legal, saliva can be used for road side tests.

Blood Testing–How Long Does Marijuana Stay In Your Blood?

Lab testers use a blood test to see if you have used weed recently. Typically, weed is detectable in the blood for up to two days. If you are a heavy weed user, weed can be detected in your blood for up to twenty-five days. The more often you use weed, the longer it stays detectable in your blood.

Within seconds of when you inhale, weed can be detected in the blood. The cannabis is then distributed to the rest of your body systems. Some is broken down and reabsorbed in your bloodstream, where it can remain for days.

Urine

The most common method of testing for weed is through your urine. Marijuana can be detected in urine after last use depending on the amount you used. Heavy users multiple times a day can have weed detected in urine for up to thirty days.

Daily uses that use marijuana everyday but just once or twice a day can have weed detected in their system between ten to fifteen days. Four times a week moderate users can have weed in their system for up to one week or seven days. Social users up to three times each week can have week in their system up to three days.

Metabolites or by products of weed are soluble in body fat. This means that they bind themselves to your body’s fat molecules. Because of this, it can take time for the weed to get out of your system.

Have you tried your hand at planting food for whitetail deer on your property? Did you feel as though your did everything correctly and had your food plot overrun by weeds? You're not alone. This is common issue faced by many a deer hunting enthusiast.

Controlling weeds in your deer food plots can be a very complicated issue and one which is almost impossible to deal with. There are literally hundreds of different varieties of weeds across this country and just like plants, there are annual and perennial varieties as well. This makes identifying the weed which is plaguing your food plot critical.

I remember the first time I attempted to plant a food plot. I figured "why do I even need to deal with the weeds, the forage I planted would just overgrow the weeds and kill them off." Well, I learned very quickly that the opposite is true. It was long before the weeds had taken over.

The bottom line is not controlling the weeds in your food plot is a recipe for disaster. The weeds will compete with your forage for moisture, sunlight and the nutrients in the soil.

So what options do you have to combat a weed infestation? There are some general step you can do to keep the weeds under control. Here are 3 keys to setting yourself up to win the battle of the weeds.

1. Identify the weed – There are hundreds of varieties of weeds. The only way to properly plan how to remove it from your food plot is to know what it is. Take a sample of the weed the agricultural extension agent, wildlife biologist or perhaps a farmer in your area.

2. Learn how to eliminate – This is where you develop your plan of attack. Once you identify your problem, plan an opposite crop. If you have a weed which is a grass, plant a broadleaf and vice-versa.

3. Decide on and implement your plan of attack – some of you possible options include cutting the culprit, planting something to compete with it or use chemicals to kill it. Of these options, chemicals are often the best choice. They are safe and cost effective and developed specifically for the weed which is plaguing your food plot.

You can win your battle with the weeds in your deer food plot. Identification, planning and a proper plan of attack are the keys. However, this is a very broad stroke to a very specific problem . So, is it possible to safely remove the weeds which have infiltrated your food plot?

The answer is yes. Learning the specifics of weed control in your region of the country can make all the difference. If you use the wrong method to attack these weeds you could lose your entire crop. What a waste of your time and money. Not to mention, you all but guarantee the fact that no whitetails will come through your property during hunting season.

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