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Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
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- Cooked with meat
- Brewed into tea
- Relieve headache
- Cure colds
- Baby bath
- Indigestion
- Remove acne
- Poultice
- Treat gingivitis
- Relieve gas problems (farting)
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| The flowers are said to be quite tasty and a nice addition to a summer fruit salad |
Is it also known as bee balm? Earl Gray tea? Brings to mind a line from somewhere in classic poetry: "Who knows where the wild bergamot grows?" What poem? What poet? My search didn't turn it up.
ReplyDeleteFound it. Not a poem but an essay I had in my files. So this means you are a revolutionary!
ReplyDelete"Life has become so mechanized, life is so lacking in flavor, that anything learned about anything rescues people from the boredom of civil obedience. In a technological age the man who knows where the bergamot grows in some brushy back field or knows when and where to look for Pleiades is a revolutionary. He has published his declaration of independence."
--Brooks Atkinson, from his essay "The Bird Habit"
Deb,
ReplyDeleteI guess I am, if Brooks is to be believed. You must have a good memory if you remember every sentence of every essay you've read! It is a great quote.