The Virginia Creeper

      Something fascinating happened today.
I have been drinking black coffee every day for a few months now, and I find that it's somewhat hard on the bones. Sure it may have its good properties, but if you drink it all day long, every day, well, it takes its toll. So I was wondering today, what in my surroundings would be helpful to me to make an herbal tea from? I thought of that ivy which grows along the wall between my place and the neighbors every year. So I thought to go out there and ask the plant itself for information about it. I went outside, got close to the plant, and started talking to it. I asked it, would it be alright for me to take some of you and make a tea? And it said yes. I asked it what part of the body, or how does it affect the body in healing it? It told me that it works internally in the organs and that it helps in the  area of the joints of the bones. And I thought, heck, that's exactly what I need. So as I was looking at it, it told me to go and take the new shoots coming out of the end, and I turned to look to see that these were growing on the red reconstituted bricks of my home, and that Eric does not like these vines growing in there, and neither do I, because I've seen the damage they do to the structure. Hahaa. So cool. So this plant told me to take the new shoots. So I gently ripped it away from the wall that it had grown onto, about one foot and a half, and I cut it with the pruning sheers how much I was told to take (about 12 inches), and then I re-trained the ivy to grow back onto the wall between the properties. I went inside and the plant kept communicating with me. You see, I think it's the angel of the plant that communicates with you, because once when I knew a few of us were going to get stranded on an island and the mosquitos were going to start biting, I decided ahead of time to protect myself, and I sent the Angel of the mosquitos love from my whole self, and then the mosquitos themselves, and when we were stranded on the island sitting at the picnic table, no mosquitos bit me, but they were madly haha biting the other three who were with me, it was so funny. But I couldn't tell them the secret because they would call me crazy, and wouldn't listen, so there was no point in saying anything anyway. But I had to hide that from them instead. So when the girl who was with us noticed that no mosquitos were biting me, the mosquitos helped me to hide it by going onto my lower leg and biting me so that I slapped at my leg, but not the mosquito, before the other two would have noticed the same thing. So they just ignored her after they heard me slap my leg. Hahahaha...hilarious stuff.

So anyway, the plant also has an angel... but I'm not sure whether it's the angel of the entire plant family, or just of that plant type. But anyway, when I was indoors I was somehow guided by the angel of that plant, because I chopped the first shoots, the young part, and I took off the big leaves and set them aside. Then when the water boiled I put them in and the angel told me to let it steep for fifteen minutes. So I put the timer on and just as I was getting impatient to have some, I walked over to the stove and the timer went off. Haha. I'll make more tea out of the leaves later on. Upon taking my first cup  of tea, it was clear liquid and very delicate of flavor, I couldn't taste it much, so I was glad, because it's not difficult to drink, as some herbal teas are. Then later, as it sat in the pot on the stove, it turned a very nice amber colour, just as some other tea that I've made from other herbs did also. I have been drinking it all day and I have felt refreshed from it. Also I have noticed that my bones are also feeling better. I guess that means that I must have pulled a muscle in my right arm because it hasn't done much for that part, which has been bothering me for a few days now. I'm going to have to find something for muscle healing too. So yea! That tea helped my bones feel good. I'm going to continue drinking it for a while...I don't know, I'll ask the plant how long I should drink it for. The plant and the body are both biological and therefore they work together. I'm so glad.

So anyway, later, I got curious as to what kind of plant that ivy is, and if I could find something on it. So I put into google search that it's an herb with five leaves and a climbing ivy. The coolest thing I found out is that, this plant is exactly used for healing bones. Hahaha. Neat hey? Isn't that the coolest? I love it. Everyone should go and talk to the plants around them and ask them questions.

Here are the links I found:

Virginia Creeper - Parthenocissus quinquefolia

From Botanical dot com Virginia Creeper

After reading about the leaves, I think I'll just try a little bit. Lol.


The one I have here looks similar to this picture. I'm in Canada, so it's different in every country (this one looks like it's from the U.S.) ..but it has around six jagged edges on the leaf edge and five leaves on a stem, as well as it can stick on the wall with these cute little suckers that hold onto anything it finds to climb on and travel by.

This is what the kind around here looks like, see the little leaves and then the large ones, or maybe it's because it's just early in the season?...

Actually, it all happened on Thursday May 18, even though it says May 19. It's because I'm just writing about it now, this evening, after 12, you know?

In the Botanical dot com site it says the leaves have a very unpleasant taste. Not! I just made some tea and they taste lovely. They taste different from the brand new reddish shoots though. They also have a clear liquid upon making them. The plants angel told me after the water boiled and I cut up some leaves into the calm water, that I could drink it immediately instead of waiting for 15 minutes. So if you want to check out this herbal tea, then just put a pot of water to boil in a stainless steel pot, I think about 7 or 8 cups it seems like. Then after it boils turn off the heat, then put into the water about a half of a handful or a handful of leaves. I chopped mine up into it, about a handful. You just go by your own feelings, or ask the angel of the plant like I did...they will guide you. And remember to say thank you, and send your love to them.


Wow! I just read that it helps to heal the spleen! And the angel of the plant was earlier telling me that it works on the organs of the body. Well we found a specific organ! The Spleen. In the Botanical site it says: "Cups ( of tea) made from Ivywood have been employed, from which to sip hot or cold water, for diseases of the spleen."


Oh! by the way... Happy Birthday Dad! Lol. It's so interesting how I end up here when a family memeber has a birthday. Right. May 19 was my dad's birthday. He was born in the year of the Rooster, 1933.