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Description
Wild Lettuce Lactuca sativa or Lactuca verosa (Garden Lettuce, Wild Lettuce, Great Prickly Lettuce)
Medicinal Usage
The sedative properties of wild lettuce, which are most potent as the plant goes to seed, have been known since ancient times. Because it had a narcotic effect and helped to induce sleep, calm anxiety and ease pain, the milky sap or latex contained in the wild lettuce was known as 'poor man's opium'. The plant was also used to treat mania, nervous disorders, coughs, respiratory problems, aching muscles and joints, and liver and digestive complaints. Overdosage may cause poisoning.
Culinary Usage
In medieval times the bitter, loose-leaved variety of lettuce was cooked as a vegetable, and added to porrays and soups. (The lettuce commonly used in salads nowadays has had both the bitterness and the medicinal virtues of its wild relative bred out of it.)
Miscellaneous
The ancient Greeks and Romans credited the lettuce with magical properties, believing it to be a protection against drunkenness, as well as an aphrodisiac. Dioscorides, however, prescribed it to diminish sexual desire, while the Pythagoreans called it 'eunuchs' plant'. In Greek mythology Aphrodite was reputed to have laid the dead body of her beloved Adonis on a bed of lettuce leaves. Pliny mentioned that there were a large variety of lettuce, but that all had a "cooling quality", and "relieved the stomach of distaste for food and promoted appetite." He also mentioned that, during the months that they were out of season, the leaves were kept "pickled in honey-vinegar." The botanical name Lactuca is derived from the Latin for milk, a reference to the milky sap in the stems. When dried the latex was used to adulterate opium.
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Directions
Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
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