[Sca-cooks] Catnip - probably more information than you would like to know

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

>From Platina, on calamint:
What is called nepeta [calamint] in our popular language the Greeks call 
calaminthe. It is of great strenght and powerful in heat, whence it 
deserves to be ascribed to the very best antidotes, for it is considered 
useful to stomach and chese, loosens and purges phlegm of head and 
thorax, heals the liver, destroys hardness of the spleen, drives out 
stone, and moves the urine. Not only alone but also with other herbs, it 
is very beneficial for those thigns we have mentioned when it has been 
pounded and sieved and crushed.
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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
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