Wild Marjoram

Wild marjoram is also called also origanum, eastward, marjoram, and grove marjoram. Wild or field marjoram root which creeps much under ground, and continues a long time sending up sundry brownish, hard square stalks, with small dark green leaves, very like those of sweet marjoram, but harder, and broader; at the top of the stalks stand tufts of flowers, of a deep purplish red colour. The seed is small and blacker than that of sweet marjoram. It grows abundantly in the borders of corn-fields, and in some copses.

It strengthens the stomach and head much, there being scarcely a better remedy growing for such as are troubled with acidity of the stomach; it is a stomachic, and restores the appetite, relieves cough and consumption of the lungs; it cleanses the body of choler, expels poison, and helps the infirmities of the spleen; it is an antidote to hemlock, henbane, or opium.

Wild marjoram provokes urine, and the terms in women, relieves dropsy and scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice. The juice being dropped into the ears, relieves deafaness, pain and noise in the ears. It is generally taken as an infusion, which is very serviceable to nervous habits. The volatile oil, called originum, has been highly extolled as a cure for toothache.

*be advised that the above claims and have not been scientifically proven, it is only based upon roamers of some who have claimed that this is the antidote which has cured them; as with all latechef health and benefits, please speak with your family doctor before usage or consumption.

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