HERB - Re: Arnica

[Gaylin Walli]

Mistress Christianna wrote:

>So Arnica is an old-world plant used in period?  That's interesting
>information to have.

Well, I only have secondary and tertiary mention of it, but I
think yes. I also have a note of a legend that an old woman told
me when I was in germany. She said that a long time ago, people
in the Alps use to chew the herb to make their soar climbing
muscles get better. I asked her how long ago, and she said
long before when Germany was just starting to be Germany
and before that even.

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME. Arnica taken internally can be fatal
if taken in the incorrect dosage.

Most of my plant identification books say it is an indigenous
Central European plant that was naturalized in the US (no dates
given, unfortunately, in the books I have). The books also mention
that it was "found in England and Southern Scotaland, but is
probably an escape" (Grieve, Vol 1, pg. 55 of the Barnes &
Noble reprint).

I'm still actually searching for a period reference to the
plant that I can quote. I make a bruise ointment (from the
fabled ointments of Jasmine's Mysterious Medicines that I
keep promising) that includes it.

Jasmine "Who really should be going home now" de Cordoba

Jasmine de Cordoba, Midrealm (Metro-Detroit area of Michigan)
jasmine at infoengine.com or g.walli at infoengine.com

"Si enim alicui placet mea devotio, gaudebo; si autem
nulli placet, memet ipsam tamen juvat quod feci."
-- Hroswith of Gandersheim
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