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Silphium

Nature · Colors & materials

A vanished fennel-like plant of Cyrenaic trade and medicine. Not wormwood, not ordinary fennel, and not a modern resurrection-claim.

  • Silphium is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists silphium (laser / silphion) among drugs: a Cyrenaic plant prepared as remedies. First-century pharmacological use of the vanished fennel-like ware, not wormwood and not a cult calendar.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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