HERB - "Hortulus" - "Horehound"

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Here's today's Strabo. - Raisya

"X.  Horehound

	Horehound comes next, and what shall I say of this
Powerful worker?  A precious herb, though biting
And sharp on the tongue where it tastes so unlike
Its scent:  for whereas the scent is sweet, the taste
Is not sweet at all.  Yet taken in a draught,
For all its nastiness it assuages pain
In the chest, and most when drunk still warm from the fire
And ladled out quickly to close the meal.
										If ever
A vicious stepmother mixes in your drink
Subtle poisons, or makes a treacherous dish
Of lethal aconite for you, don't waste a moment -
Take a dose of wholesome horehound; that
Will counteract the danger you suspect."
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