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Rosemary Chicken Protects Your Brain From Free Radicals
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2007) — Rosemary not only tastes good in culinary dishes such as Rosemary chicken and lamb, but scientists have now found it is also good for your brain. A collaborative group from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham Institute) in La Jolla, CA and in Japan, report that the herb rosemary contains an ingredient that fights off free radical damage in the brain
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Rosemary Chicken Protects Your Brain From Free Radicals
Why does
every generation have to re-invent the wheel in their own "philosophic/scientific' world view?
Shakespeare could have told the researchers this.
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Rosemary is for remembering, remembrance.
"There's Rosemary for you, that's for remembrance! Pray you, love, remember."
William Shakespeare (Ophelia in Hamlet)
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Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
On this fair corse; and, as the custom is
Romeo and Juliet,
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Shakespeare talks about Rosemary celebrating our comings and goings (somewhere WWW search engines will not find it for me).
Golden gilded sprigs of Rosemary were given to brides.
Remembering the Marriage Vows or the loss of a friend.
Sprigs of Rosemary were thrown into graves
Students used to drink a tea of fresh Rosemary sprigs to help them remember for exams.
Too much Rosemary tea will elecvate BP.
BTW
It is much better for lamb ( Roasted lamb leg -Ummo).
If you grow a few plants you can use the woody stems for shiskabobs
It is such an easy herb to grow.
It just needs the sun and no water.
There are a lot of varieties these days even a tumbling pretty ground-cover
"Rose marinus" t
he Rose of the sea.
If you are near the sea grow it and not just one variety.
Some have blue some have white some have pink flowers, some are bushes some are ground-covers or trailing plants
I saw a wonderful example of this in N.Zland wher every floor of a car park had trailling Rosemary comming from it
A fantastic green waterfall..
It is said that originally the flowers were white and when the Virgin Mary dried her clock over it the flowers turned to blue.
Drying clothes on a Rosemary hedge was a common practice as it's fragrance repelled moths.
