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    Herbs are a gift from nature. They include leaves, bark, berries, roots, gums, seeds, stems and flowers. They have been used for thousands of years to help maintain good health.

—courtesy of Austin Nutritional research

    The earliest ornamental gardens were created in ancient Egypt around 2200 B.C.E., about 600 years before the creation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. These gardens were created by Sesh per Ankh priests, primarily for the medicinal qualities of flowers and herbs. The gardens also were considered to show the power of Pharaoh, who grew flowers where nature did not.

Click here for a University of San Francisco web page about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

    Around 1000 B.C.E. Arab traders who supplied the Mediterranean with cassia and cinnamon made up wild stories of their origin to obscure the real sources and hold onto their spice monopoly. In the first century C.E. the Roman general Pliny the Elder wrote that the Arabian tales were crafted to inflate prices.

Some herbs may be poisonious under some conditions. Exercise appropriate care. There are herbs that were formerly believed to be completely safe that are now known to be dangerous. Knowledge about safety continually evolves and changes.

    Wild gathering: Avoid wild gathering. Some plants are endangered species. Some plants can be toxic just by touch. Even experts can make deadly misidentifications of wild plants. Please grow your own herbs in your own goddess garden (or window boxes).

    Magikcal substitutions: Rosemary may be safely substituted for any herb in magick spells and rituals. Roses may safely be substituted for any flower.

    You can learn about growing herbs and other plants in the article about Witchcraft gardens.

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    “Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”, Pythagoras (Greek mathematician). Pythagoras ate bread and honey for breakfast and raw vegetables for supper. He also paid fishermen to throw their catch back into the sea.

Some herbs may be poisonious under some conditions. Exercise appropriate care.

    Wild gathering: Avoid wild gathering. Some plants are endangered species. Some plants can be toxic just by touch. Even experts can make deadly misidentifications of wild plants. Please grow your own herbs in your own goddess garden (or window boxes).

See also: herbalism and nutrients.

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