Cadena de Amor

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Cadena de Amor, Coral Vine, Antigonon leptopus

A tropical climbing, perennial vine I found at the back of an old church in Culion Island.  Cadena de Amor (Chain of Love) is used in folkloric medicine and wild-crafted all over the Philippines.  Studies have shown that extracts exhibit anti-thrombin, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic and lipid peroxidation  inhibitory activities.

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What would the world be, once bereft

Of wet and of wildness?  Let them be left,

O let them be left, wildness and wet;

Long live the weeds and wilderness yet.

~ Gerard Hopkins

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Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.  ~ Kelly Scheaffer

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