[Sca-cooks] Fwd: {OHG} kpNewsletter February 10, 2003 (Thought you might find this interesting)

[robert frazier]

--- CherylLGrice at cs.com wrote:
> To: organichomesteadinggardening at yahoogroups.com
> From: CherylLGrice at cs.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:25:35 EST
> Subject: {OHG} kpNewsletter  February 10, 2003
> (Thought you might find this interesting)
>
> kpNewsletter  February 10, 2003
> www.killerplants.com
>
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> What fruit was used for colds?
> By Chelsie Vandaveer
> =======================
>
> In The Herbal, Or General Historie of Plants , John
> Gerard (1597) wrote of
> the four known citrus--the citron, limon, orange,
> and Assyrian apple
> (grapefruit). Citrus were known to the
> ancients--Greeks, Romans, Egyptians,
> Arabs, and Jews, then mostly forgotten after the
> fall of the Roman Empire.
>
> The poet, Virgil, advised citrus as a treatment for
> poisoning. He wrote of
> the citron (Citrus medica Linnaeus) in 29 BCE,
> "...Media yields the bitter
> juices and slow-lingering taste of the blest
> citron-fruit, than which no aid
> comes timelier, when fierce step-dames drug the cup
> with simples mixed and
> spells of baneful power, to drive the deadly poison
> from the limbs." (The
> Georgics, Book II, Virgil, 29 BCE)
>
>  At the time of Gerard, sweet oranges (Citrus
> sinensis Osbeck) were
> relatively new to Europe introduced in the late
> 1400s or early 1500s. Citrons
> and lemons were best known and usually reserved for
> medicinal purposes.
> Gerard repeated the use of citron for poisons and
> added, "...it is excellent
> good also to be given in vehement and burning
> fevers, and against all
> pestilent...infectious diseases: it comforteth the
> heart...Men of old time
> did not eate Citrons, but were contented with the
> smell, and to lay them
> amongst cloathes, to preserve them from Moths."
>
>  Lemons (Citrus X limon (L.) Osbeck) were
> recommended to treat skin problems:
> "...takes away tetters (crusted, itchy skin) and
> blemishes...and maketh the
> face faire and smooth."
>
>  Gerard offered this formula for the cold and flu
> season: "Two ounces of the
> juice of Limons, mixed with the like quantitie of
> the spirit of wine, or the
> best Aqua vitae (brandy) and drunke at the first
> approach of the fit of an
> ague (fever and chills), taketh away the shaking
> presently: the medicine
> seldome faileth at the second time of the taking
> thereof perfectly to cure
> the same..."
>
> HortResearch of New Zealand has a photograph of
> Buddha's hand, one of the
> more bizarre forms of the citron:
>
http://www.hortresearch.co.nz/products/nzcbs/cultivars/bhcitron/
>
> The Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants, Institute for
> Systematic Botany,
> University of South Florida has a photograph of
> lemons taken by Walter Hodge:
> <A
>
HREF="http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/images.asp?plantID=1833">http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/images.asp?plantID=1833</A>
>
>
> © 2003 C. Vandaveer. All rights reserved.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>


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robert frazier
stallarifannsk household,An Tir
S.S.D.D.

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