The cabbage is a humble plant.

Do bees hibernate? I think they do. It would make no sense for them to be flying around in he dead of winter, since there's no food for them, and besides insects are cold blooded and so require an outside heat source to stay active.



I like bees, theoretically. They pollinate my food and make honey. They're smart and they're pretty interesting, as far as insects go. I support the bee. I'm terribly worried about the tragic worldwide decline in bee populations in recent years. However, despite all of this, I must admit that I'm scared of them. How can something so small cause SO MUCH PAIN??

You see, yesterday I got stung by a bee. I was shopping for onions and all of a sudden I felt something very sharp and very painful and when I dropped the onion I watched a bee fly out and realized I still had its stinger embedded in my right ring finger. I was trembling so badly that I had to ask the onion lady to remove the stinger for me. Luckily, I'm not allergic to bees (at least, not more than normal), but I went to the pharmacist anyways and picked up some antihistamines and went home to ice it.

The cabbage is a humble plant.

In addition to its use by Europeans for food, it has many useful medicinal properties (from Wikipedia):

Cabbage is an excellent source of Vitamin C. It also contains significant amounts of glutamine, an amino acid, which has anti-inflammatory properties.

In European folk medicine, cabbage leaves are used to treat acute inflammation.^[6] A paste of raw cabbage may be placed in a cabbage leaf and wrapped around the affected area to reduce discomfort.

Estonians believe in the power of cabbage. They will wrap any body part with its waxy leaves and insist that it will cure anything from a sprained ankle to a migrane.

So I decided to try it.


I slept with a cabbage leaf taped around my finger and this morning when I woke up the swelling had gone down and it didn't hurt as much. True story. ...I'm as amazed as the next person.

So in conclusion, I believe that this very careful scientific experiment proves the power of cabbage. All hail Brassica oleracea (Capitata Group)!