Pertinax
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Do you know how it worked?
I will post a shot of a "new model" they made at Vindolanda
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Is this a type of reed bunting?
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See the violence inherent in the system!
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Is that related to other forms of Geranium? Or is Geranium simply a word meaning "Herb"?
The Geraniums are a very large and diverse family-geranium comes from a latin root word meaning crane-so unsurprisingly cranesbill herb is...a geranium !
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Pretty much like any incense I suppose. If that's a tiny amount the stuff must not be very dense, or else the camara was very zoomed in lol.
Does it at least have a good odor? My neighbors seem to like to burn odd things...various forms of trash...at odd times and it isn't very pleasant. I hope this is better
Ive zoomed in quite close to give an idea of the texture-its a dried resinous gum that feels slightly pliable and leaves a soft white dust everywhere. It is one of the basic ingredients for churh insence-the odour is quite striking, heavy with a deep but not sickly sweetness , quite subtle and then you realise it is pervading the whole room with its heaviness.
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I had no clue that any form of St. Johns Wort was useful for burns...I knew of lavendar and caledula...
yes indeed, the Romans always considered it a digestive/urinary tonic (primarily) but it seems that a use for wounds was not unknown. It is also very good for severe spine pain (in relation to severe nerve pain) though not for other limbs.
Time magazine ran an article on Hypericum many years ago showing its clinical performance versus prozac/ritalin, I regret to say someone "borrowed" my copy-if anyone finds it please tell me the date! I suspect that article to be perhaps 10 yeras old.
nb:Pantagathus -Madame Pertinax says a definite nix to being a succulent.
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It looks quite odd...I honestly thought it was a pile of snails when I saw the thumbnail LOL.
That's quite a bit of frankincense do you know who sent it? No matter, enjoy it
thats only a tiny amount! I have 1Lb of it here in a sealed container.A herb and spice merchant sent it to me-though I have had to wait quite a while for someone to find any. I intend to burn small quantities to cleanse the house in spring-what one should do is, briefly set fire to the gum, then extinguish the flames and let the smouldering fumes of the resin waft around . It should only be done late at night-if using a reasonable amount-as the smoke is very soporific.It is excellent for very bad colds or sinus infections -freeing the sinuses and cleaning the airways.
leading American natural herb companies sell Boswellia extract capsules as treatment for arthritis and severe stomach problems.
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So would you classify the plant itself a succulent?
& When I see Hypericum I think of Hyperion which I guess matches up with the breakdown you gave!
I thought it was an unusual marshland succulent-but with a "transplanted " flower which I recognised-in this form ,(for which I am struggling to give much additional data ). it is confined to bogs and coastal marshes on acid soil, only in a few locations in the west of England .Phillips (1977-Wild Flowers of Britain ) says that it is not a succulent
I will watch hypericin development with interest to see if the "stigmata" show on this much heavier leafed plant.Madame Pertinax will issue an edict and all will be resolved, her Linnaean knowledge is excellent.I thought it was some sort of Stonecrop (Sedum) and introduced non-native.We also have H humifusum the trailing woodland variant.
I suspect that some hypericum wil be home brew bound this year.
Hypericum is a particular favourite of the Norse brewers, today favoured mostly in Norway.
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Or simply people dressed up in ridiculous camo
drunk people in ridiculous european pattern camo.
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I see that Atropine, a common antidote to chemical weapons is derived from this plant.
so-keep taking the mandrake or henbane beer in case of chemical attack.This plant is under the special care of the Evil One-only on Walpurgis Eve can Christian people divert him from his nefarious botanical ambitions.
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AWWWW LMAO another fuzzy eared squirrel! And you can actually tell that it's long hairs in this picture.
So cute! And goofy looking!
Oh its those ears again!
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No, I'm Bigus Dickus, comander of a quack legion.
I darent ask about your rank.
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We are all Britons! I am your King!
your fooling yourself, were in a dictatorship!
the Lady of the Lake -Her arm clad in purest sammite......
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I am Arthur , son of Uther Pendragon , King of the Britons , Defeater of the Saxons!
Youre using coconuts!
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can you tell us anything about these people?
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I have created a monster!
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you must be Incontinentia Buttox then?
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No, no. Spiwit, siw. Um, bwavado. A touch of dewwing-do
you dare to waid us?
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Quite possible. I described something of this nature (or tried to) but I had no clue what it was called really. I've seen them before somewhere, just not quite as viscious looking as this
Dolbra I think is the correct word-entrenching tools have a long history as secondary armament -WW 1 trench raiding parties used sharpened shovels as weapons amongst a specialised selection of close quarter in-fighting equipment.
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Or how exactly where 'wolf's nipple chips' prepared...
all rich Imperialist tidbits.
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I've said it before but I imagine that's exactly what a rich Phoenician merchant would have looked like...
You just had to post this...
someone had to do it sooner or later...it was the bag of ocelot spleens that reminded me...how did they get those?
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I wonder why 'niger.' Is the inside of the flower blackish?
very ,especially in the much deadlier Egyptian variant H.muticus.Hyoscine ,derived from this source is still a common pre-op medication.
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Do you happen to know if "tench slime" has any real medicinal value? (though I would imagine the bacteria present on the fish would do more harm than good thus negating any value)
Pertinax, you should write up an article on Roman medicine (or have you already? If you have, I've missed it and I'd love to read it!)
Having kept and bred fish ,I would only suggest that perhaps they ( the Tench) were seeking to dislodge external parasites on other fish, all healthy fish are nice and slimey!.Alas the best medicinal use for any fish is to become a wholesome oleagenous meal for a hungry biped.
I am slowly building up to a paper on materia medica of the Roman World but I am working backwards from contemporary herbalism via medieval practice -I need more Roman and Celtic information and artefact knowledge.Cruse is excellent on medicine as an art ( I reviewed her work on the site) but I need to look further to known natural resources.The difficulty is that I am constantly being pulled toward Celtic and Pictish sources .
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it's really pretty!
and very interesting 
A powerful plant-pretty but not for the unknowing person. A sophisticated medicine that should be treated with greatest respect.
Roman lock-rebuilt
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None of the locks/keys looked at all "fragile" , a hardwood can be very tough indeed. Also quite a lot of people patrolling with pointy spears might dissuade those of larcenous intent.