HERB - Horehound

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In a message dated 03/30/2000 7:51:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
alineswynbrook at yahoo.com writes:

<< Does anyone know of any uses or growing instructions on this?  My herbal 
doesn't list it...  >>



It will grow in any soil and prefers a sunny spot.  It can be grown from seed 
sown in the spring, or by division of its roots.  It is considered a weed in 
Australia and New Zealand and is under statutory control there. It is a hardy 
perennial growing to 2 feet with erect, branched stems and green gray leaves.

It has been known since Egyptian times, and is thought to have been one of 
the bitter herbs eaten by the Jews at the original Feast of the Passover.

Its reputation as a remedy for coughs and colds goes back at least to Pliny's 
time, and was recommended by 16th century herbalists in a syrup of fresh 
leaves in sugar as a "most singular remedie against the cough and wheezing of 
the lungs."

Horehound Candy  (The Family Herbal 1810)

Boil some horehound until the juice is extracted.  Boil up some sugar to a 
feather height, add your juice to the sugar and let it boil until it is again 
the same height.  Stir it until it begins to grow thick, then pour it on a 
dish and dust it with sugar and when fairly cool cut it into squares.  
Excellent sweetmeat for colds and coughs.

Juliana - Aethelmearc
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