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Agrimonia Eupatoria.
Yugoslavia - A member of the rose family, and common on British roadsides. Used as a country tea in France. Cleansing & washing wounds. Sweet smelling.
Magickally used to sweeten troublesome people in your life.
Yugoslavia - A member of the rose family, and common on British roadsides. Used as a country tea in France. Cleansing & washing wounds. Sweet smelling.
Magickally used to sweeten troublesome people in your life.
Aquillaria agallocha
Tropical Asia
This is the REAL pharmaceutical grade pure timber Aloes wood - VERY expensive - but if you can source the REAL article cheaper - please let us know - because unlike most other supplies (which can be of very dubious origin) - this is certified correct.
The price has gone up tenfold in recent years ouch - sorry about that - not in our control.
Tropical Asia
This is the REAL pharmaceutical grade pure timber Aloes wood - VERY expensive - but if you can source the REAL article cheaper - please let us know - because unlike most other supplies (which can be of very dubious origin) - this is certified correct.
The price has gone up tenfold in recent years ouch - sorry about that - not in our control.
Maranta arundinacea
Introduced into the British Isles in the 18th century.
Used as part of a diet for convalescents, as it is easily digested and nourishing. It is also valuable as a remedy in bowel complaints, and can be made into a poultice to soothe insect bites.
Introduced into the British Isles in the 18th century.
Used as part of a diet for convalescents, as it is easily digested and nourishing. It is also valuable as a remedy in bowel complaints, and can be made into a poultice to soothe insect bites.
Medicinal Use
Asafoetida is known as an antidote for flatulence and is also prescribed for respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis and whooping cough. Its vile smell has led to many unusual medical claims, mostly stemming from the belief that it’s foetid odour would act as a deterrent to germs. In several European countries a small piece of the resin would be tied on a string and hung around childrens necks to protect from disease. The shock of the sulfurous smell was once thought to calm hysteria and in the days of the American Wild West it was included in a mixture with other strong spices as a cure for alcoholism.
Traditional Use
Asafoetida is a hard resinous gum, grayish-white when fresh, darkening with age to yellow, red and eventually brown. It is sold in blocks or pieces as a gum and more frequently as a fine yellow powder, sometimes crystalline or granulated.
Bouquet: a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur. The smell dissipates with cooking.
Flavour: on its own, extremely unpleasant, like concentrated rotten garlic. When cooked, it adds an onion-like flavour.
Use in minute quantities, adding directly to cooking liquid, frying in oil, or steeping in water. Asafoetida is used mostly in Indian vegetarian cooking, in which the strong onion-garlic flavour enhances many dishes, especially those of Brahmin and Jain castes where onions and garlic are prohibited. It is used mostly in south and west India, though it does not grow there. It is used in many lentil dishes (often to prevent flatulence), vegetarian soups and pickles. It is also suited to many fish dishes and some pappadums are seasoned with asafoetida.
Ingredients
Fenugreek seeds, asafoetida gum
Asafoetida is known as an antidote for flatulence and is also prescribed for respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis and whooping cough. Its vile smell has led to many unusual medical claims, mostly stemming from the belief that it’s foetid odour would act as a deterrent to germs. In several European countries a small piece of the resin would be tied on a string and hung around childrens necks to protect from disease. The shock of the sulfurous smell was once thought to calm hysteria and in the days of the American Wild West it was included in a mixture with other strong spices as a cure for alcoholism.
Traditional Use
Asafoetida is a hard resinous gum, grayish-white when fresh, darkening with age to yellow, red and eventually brown. It is sold in blocks or pieces as a gum and more frequently as a fine yellow powder, sometimes crystalline or granulated.
Bouquet: a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur. The smell dissipates with cooking.
Flavour: on its own, extremely unpleasant, like concentrated rotten garlic. When cooked, it adds an onion-like flavour.
Use in minute quantities, adding directly to cooking liquid, frying in oil, or steeping in water. Asafoetida is used mostly in Indian vegetarian cooking, in which the strong onion-garlic flavour enhances many dishes, especially those of Brahmin and Jain castes where onions and garlic are prohibited. It is used mostly in south and west India, though it does not grow there. It is used in many lentil dishes (often to prevent flatulence), vegetarian soups and pickles. It is also suited to many fish dishes and some pappadums are seasoned with asafoetida.
Ingredients
Fenugreek seeds, asafoetida gum
Geum Urbanum
Wood avens, herb bennet, clove root.
Common in northern European shaded areas. Used as a potherb in Elizabethan times.
Contains tannin - used as tea for a tonic, or for diarrhoea. Astringent washing water.
Wood avens, herb bennet, clove root.
Common in northern European shaded areas. Used as a potherb in Elizabethan times.
Contains tannin - used as tea for a tonic, or for diarrhoea. Astringent washing water.