Anniemay

By Anniemay

Herbs

Borago officinalis var. 'Alba')


According to Dioscorides and Pliny, Borage was the famous Nepenthe of Homer, which when drunk steeped in wine, brought absolute forgetfulness.

John Evelyn, writing at the close of the seventeenth century tells us: 'Sprigs of Borage are of known virtue to revive the hypochrondriac and cheer the hard student.'

Bacon says that it 'hath an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky melancholie.'

It is also an important ingredient in the popular English alcoholic beverage Pimm's No. 1.

Sounds like the kind of thing everyone should have in their herb garden. Must make more use of mine especially when I need a period of 'absolute forgetfulness'!!

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