Musings about the medicinal herb, Stachys officinalis

Check out this quote about Stachys officinalis (from commonwealthherbs.com/betony-herb-of-the-week/ ):

We’ve found betony to be incredibly useful for people who work heavily with machines or computers, to bring them back out of the realms of artificial intelligence and virtual experience.

Anyway, I've never heard of that before. It sounds like an interesting herb. I found this article after researching a number of edible plants (edible Dahlia roots and Yacon), discovering Chinese artichokes, and then looking at other plants in the same genus on Wikipedia; then, I got the idea that maybe it was useful against sleep paralysis and/or sleep seizures (due to folklore section on Wikipedia, and how it talks about dreams, ghosts, etc.; also, the reported effect on migraines might have been a clue there; also, how it's supposed to prevent drunkenness); so, I did a web search and found the site I linked to above (which does mention seizures, but perhaps more interestingly, it talks of grounding computer people in the real world, which seems something to be of interest in today's day and age). I wonder if it affects light sensitivity, mood stability (like I wonder if it might prevent or reverse mania), or such. I wonder this because I tend to think the glowing screens have a lot to do with the disconnect that the article talks about (and light and mania are perhaps related). Light and seizures are sometimes related (so, that's how my train of thought got there).

Anyway, don't mistake my wonderings as saying that the plant is definitely useful for any of these purposes. What I'm doing is providing material for people to research.

Anyway, Wikipedia said, "… [Stachys] officinalis, was the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo-Saxons of early medieval England.": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys

That's what got me researching it (to find out why whoever thought so).

Here's the Wikipedia article on the Stachys officinalis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_officinalis

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