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What is Peganum Harmala?
Peganum Harmala aka Syrian Rue is a shrub that grows in most of the world. It is very drought tolerant as well as cold tolerant. It has a giant tap root that can go 30ft or more into the ground making it very hard to kill. It dies and grows back from any root left each year. The only way to get rid of it is strong weed killers.
It has many different names for just one plant including
- Syrian Rue
- Wild Rue
- Mountain Rue
- African Rue
- Esfand
- Harmel
It contains many different chemicals including
- Harmine (Telepathine)
- Harmaline
- Tetrahydroharmine
- Vasicine (Peganine)
What are the uses of Peganum Harmala?
Peganum Harmala is believed to have been used for thousands of years for a huge variety of things. Traditionally Peganum Harmala has been used for treatments including
- Kills body lice, worms, and some other internal parasites.
- In Yemen it was used to whiten the unleavened bread for Jewish Passover.
- Body Cleansing Rituals
- Protection from the Evil Eye and Djinn
- MAO Inhibitor
- A Hallucinogen
- Incense
- Red Dye
Historical Uses of Peganum Harmala
In the 1500s in Europe it could be bought under the name harmel in the apothecaries, and was also known as 'wild' or 'mountain' rue. It could be used for a few dozen ailments, such as to treat woman of their natural disease when the leaves were used in only water, or when the juice were drunk with wine and the leaves pressed against the wound it could cure bites and stings from rabid dogs, scorpions, bees and wasps and the like. Supposedly those covered in the sap, or having eaten it sober, would be immune to poison for a day, as well as to poisonous beasts. Other cures were for 'drying' sperm, 'purifying' woman after childbirth, causing an abortion, curing earache, getting rid of spots and blemishes on the skin, and soothing bumps and pain caused by hitting a something, among many others.
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