SC - Anise seeds -some toxic, some not!!!

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Hope this helps!  Andrea


>From Waverly Root: Food

"I. verum, the genuine star anise, has a poor cousin, I. anisatum, bitter and 
toxic, sometimes called instead I.religiosum because it plays a role in 
sacred ceremonies in China and Japan. It is used in the latter to drug  the 
desperate into relative insensiblity before the commit hara-kiri."

1980, Simon and Schuster,NY

page 7

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