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Before there were drug stores and grocery stores, there was the land. Before there were doctors, there were medicine men and Take the asafetida bag, or the granny rag. Please. The asafetida bag, a supposed cure-all in its day, consisted of a fetid gum resin that carried with it the pungent taste and odor of garlic.
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www.texasescapes.com/ClayCoppedge/Folk-Medicine.htm
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Herbal lessons from American history ... Slaves also wore their herbal remedies, most often asafetida and garlic, to ward off disease. “I wore a asafetida bag ’round my neck, when a child, to keep off croup, measles, diphtheria, and whoopin’ cough,” recalled Ben Leithner, eighty-five.
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www.herbcompanion.com/health/Slave-medicine.aspx?page=3
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Peg Masters Hobrock's book, "Asafetida: that was my bag," is a quaint look at life in a small town in the Mid-Atlantic during the first quarter of the 20th century.
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www.amazon.com/review/R2UJWC2IN6LCE5
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She said that children wore this bag at night while they slept and some children were even sent to school with the asafetida bag dangling from around their necks. It was thought that this would keep children from catching diseases.
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After four years, when it is ready to yield asafetida, the stems are cut down close to the root, and a milky juice flows out that quickly sets into a solid resinous mass. ... Learn more about asafetida with a free trial on Britannica.com...
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Select the Correct Letter for each of the following: ... 1. An "air-tite" is a. a trapeze costume b. a rubber overshoe c. store brought coffin d. jar lid ... 5. An "asafetida bag" is a a. style of asafetida b. nostrum for colds c. strainer for blinky milk d. stocking cap...
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faculty.uncfsu.edu/sshorter/cultural_test.htm
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Some folks in our neighborhood believed that wearing an asafetida bag around the neck would prevent colds. This, no doubt, worked as the bags smelled so bad no one would go near the wearer. The reduced contact with other human beings probably resulted in fewer colds.
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www.springhousemagazine.com/v7n4/remedies.htm
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