I just got a call from Mistress Alizaunde who noticed a rash at Pennsic, and when she got it checked Monday was admitted to the hospital for Lyme Disease,...
For anyone interested, Stephen Buhner now has an excellent book out on herbal treatments of lyme disease. Any herbalist will tell you to get on antibiotics...
I do not trust Stephen Buhner's advice on herbalism. Having read his "Sacred and Healing Herbal Beers" book, I find him to be extremely irresponsible when...
Alright, i have to ask.. how do you get the moths to hold still long enough to freeze them? And once frozen, how do you defrost them without killing them?? Did...
I recently went to a class taught by Thomas Handwerker about Baba Yaga. That sparked a discussion about vodka. Since he is also a brewer, I asked him if he...
We make our own pepper vodka for making bloody mary's. I use a combination of white/red/and black. Never thought about period references though. But you're...
I have a newborn so naturally I was up late watching infomercials. One of them was Wen, the shampoo/conditioner with no bubble additive. Checking out the...
Generally, I've heard, you soak /simmer the stems/leaves in warm water, or soak and boil the roots, to get a soapy solution. It's used by textile conservators,...
You would boil the roots down as a decoction. I'm not sure off the top of my head about its use as a shampoo. It was definitely used as a laundry cleaner...
Sudsing action is always added to commercial product, and it's just cosmetic. As it were... It doesn't actually add to cleaning power. So I have no real...
I've never had a shampoo go bad. You could always add some oils, and some vitamin E oil as an extra preservative. I've experimented, but never perfected an...
I've never seen any reference to pepper vodka in all my cordial research but you might want to try The Domostroi. At the very least it's a starting point for...
I think the closest thing you'd get would be 'water of pepper', made by distilling pepper with grain beverage. I don't know if they made such a thing but the...
There are two different kinds of pepper. Black (and white and green) peppercorns are piper nigrum, and period. The pink ones are schinus terrbinthifolius....
I don't know about in period, but in general white pepper is more commonly used now in both Asia and Europe. When you go to restaurants it is white pepper that...
Greetings, ... The pink ones are schinus terrbinthifolius. Long pepper is piper longa. I'd been told long ago that the white peppercorns were actually some...
*White* peppercorns are the same fruit as black peppercorns, but they are allowed to ripen more, and stripped of their black outer coating. There is a 'pink'...
Greetings, ... Ahhhhhh, thank you!! That makes sense - white berries in this area are often poisonous, therefore the association. I'll look that up next week...
Stoli's used to make it, and it was sort of like drinking at your favorite Greek burger/wimpies/chili burger place. Escpecially good on cold winter nights....
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Hi, Just in case anyone is interested, not period but all information can be adjusted paracol <paracol@yahoo. com> wrote: Hello all Just a reminder for those...
Greetings, Is there an herbal remedy / preventative to those darn humongous millipedes? I'm tired of being ambushed! (The big ones with all the big wiggly...
Greetings, Avacyn! I was just talking with a friend about sheep-shearing today, and then I saw your question about extracting lanolin. I wish I could find you...
Hmm, I've never seen them much out of the compost pile. I think they like moist environments, so I guess the question is what is it inside the house that...
Thank you. The only difference I've heard in the process is from a woman who said to put the wool in a very large "jelly bag" to boil and the dirt is strained...
You don't have to count legs. Just count how many on each segment. If there are 4/segment it's a millipede - herbivore, no problem. If it's a centipede, though...
Greetings, ... like moist environments, so I guess the question is what is it inside the house that attracted them in the first place. They've suddenly popped...
The link is wrapped - you'll have to cut and paste. That said: === "Apothecary Jars. Pharmaceutical Pottery and Porcelain in Europe and the East, 1150-1850,...
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