15 years in a row for the Gilmer Buckeyes to wake up early on Thanksgiving Day for football practice! I told my youngest son this morning “all players in Texas would love to wake up early today and go practice! It’s an honor and privilege to do this.” We are grateful in Gilmer. pic.twitter.com/wNlWgJFH1W
— Brian Bowman (@jbbowman7) November 25, 2021
By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b
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