Challenge to my readers

[bunnyjadwiga]

What herb, herbal, or herb-related topic would you like me to research and post a short essay(s) on?

Comments

[vox8.livejournal.com]

I have heard mixed reports regarding the use of Tarragon in period. Did they use it for culinary applications? Did they use it at all? If so, where was it most common?

Is that a narrow enough focus for you?

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Abortifacents.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

Herb safety, similar to what danabren suggested but not

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

Herbs and the Humours, please.

[isenglass.livejournal.com]

Topical agents for external healing.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

How to keep the freakin' comfrey from taking over the village?

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

I have the same issue with oregano... first the mint that wouldn't grow in my friends garden, then the teasels (oh the teasels) and now the oregano... am now too scared to introduce comfrey!

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Don't introduce it: just back the tractor trailer of your choosing up to my house, and I can provide you with all the comfrey you'll ever need.

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Best herbs for planting a planter-box/bench. You know, the little benches where the top surface is sod/turf or some other plant? I remember hearing that certain herbs combine the tightly-packed growth, soft-to-sit-on, and smell nice-but-not-too-strong to make a perfect bench-top...

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Oregano's from the mint family. You could always do what an acquaintance of mine did -- mow it. He had it growing level with the lawn, so he just mowed it along with the grass.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

I like everyone else's ideas... sorry, not feeling exceptionally creative, just spent 4 hours straight reading/typing/editing....

hm... Maybe poultices? Like for bruises and/or sore muscles?

[asaia.livejournal.com]

I second this!

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

Why coltsfoot, mugwort and mullein when burned together smell exactly like pot?

No, I am *not* in a serious mood today :-X

[vox8.livejournal.com]

In period one of the common plants used for the turfed benches was chamomile.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

though it seems the non flowering lawn types are more popular and useful for this.

[pearl]

Angelica, how it was used, if it really originated somewhere in Lithuania like my unhelpful modern herbal claimed.