Anyone have a source of mandrake root? Need some for a herbal formulation. Will barter or swap stuff for it.
Cheers.
Sandsnakes
Cheers.
Sandsnakes
Mandrake
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xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
sandsnakes said:
NO!!! why have you put this in lovely grub?
Harry Potter is fiction, that means a lady made up the story and is not true.
Why do want it?
Mandrake or Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). it's a real plant,xylaria said:
It is legend that the mandrake plant grows under the Hang mans tree, where the dead shed their blood and seed. And the mandrake plant grows from that shedding.
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Tadpole said:Mandrake or Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). it's a real plant,
It is legend that the mandrake plant grows under the Hang mans tree, where the dead shed their blood and seed. And the mandrake plant grows from that shedding.
Boy that is really very very funny, your comments have really got me laughing in that scopoamine kind of way Sandsnakes are asking about american mandrake podophyllum peltatum which is a cathartic or are you asking about a south european plant that was used to put poeple into death like trances?
Because if it is the later you will need to ask at another forum.
Nickys Nursery
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/herb-index.htm
very good service and helpful. However, they might not sell you it if you have kids of hary Potter fan age.
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/herb-index.htm
very good service and helpful. However, they might not sell you it if you have kids of hary Potter fan age.
No need to be so offensive Xylaria. I'm sure a politely worded comment as to the properties of the plant in question would be both sufficient and more in keeping with the spirit of the forumxylaria said:
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Medicinal Action and Uses---The leaves are quite harmless and cooling, and have been used for ointments and other external application. Boiled in milk and used as a poultice, they were employed by Boerhaave as an application to indolent ulcers.
The fresh root operates very powerfully as an emetic and purgative. The dried bark of the root was used also as a rough emetic.
Mandrake was much used by the Ancients, who considered it an anodyne and soporific. In large doses it is said to excite delirium and madness. They used it for procuring rest and sleep in continued pain, also in melancholy, convulsions, rheumatic pains and scrofulous tumours. They mostly employed the bark of the root, either expressing the juice or infusing it in wine or water. The root finely scraped into a pulp and mixed with brandy was said to be efficacious in chronic rheumatism.
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The fresh root operates very powerfully as an emetic and purgative. The dried bark of the root was used also as a rough emetic.
Mandrake was much used by the Ancients, who considered it an anodyne and soporific. In large doses it is said to excite delirium and madness. They used it for procuring rest and sleep in continued pain, also in melancholy, convulsions, rheumatic pains and scrofulous tumours. They mostly employed the bark of the root, either expressing the juice or infusing it in wine or water. The root finely scraped into a pulp and mixed with brandy was said to be efficacious in chronic rheumatism.
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I am not a harry potter fan! Neither do I want to kill, maim or drift off in a delerious state! I have a reason and it is for a friend with a keen sense of responsibility... oh yes, I require european not the usa plant.
So that endeth the matter.
Thanks for your many and varid comments.
S
So that endeth the matter.
Thanks for your many and varid comments.
S
Tadpole said:Mandrake or Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). it's a real plant,
It is legend that the mandrake plant grows under the Hang mans tree, where the dead shed their blood and seed. And the mandrake plant grows from that shedding.
It is also alledged to scream when pulled up...
