The Road to Morocco day 4

My partner needed to head into town for some essentials, so I took the opportunity to hitch a ride and buy some myself, like cat litter and food... and a coffee plant ;)

Walked from Aldi's car park to Wilkinsons and back, so that is my 'functional walking' done for today! Knee feeling a tiny bit better yet again and it seemed marginally less swollen this morning.

So, I even manage to squeeze Mono Monday in this week, as the purchase of Coffea Arabica can be classed as work: it will form part of the collection of medicinal herbs. A tea (!) made from its leaves is even more powerful than our regular drink made from its roasted beans!

Coffea Arabica Medicinal Action and Uses---An active brain stimulant, which produces sleeplessness, hence its great value in narcotic poisoning; in acute cases is injected into the rectum. Very valuable in cases of snake-bite, helping to ward off the terrible coma. It also exerts a soothing action on the vascular system, preventing a too rapid wasting of the tissues of the body; these effects are not only due to the volatile oil but to the caffeine it contains. The Malays infuse the leaves, which contain even more caffeine than the berries. Caffeine is valuable for heart disease, ascites and pleuritic effusion and combines well with digitalis; also valuable in cases of inebrity; is a powerful diuretic, but loses its effect with use.

P.S. photographically this phone cam shot isn't the most exciting, but I have no time to get the proper camera out and be creative, I have WORK to do ;)