1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Sabor Prediction of iHeart Radio and 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: Stuff Media. I'm An Eeries and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: today we're talking about lavender. Yep. And this one has 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: been on my mind since we got back from Hawaii 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: because while we were there, we found out there was 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: a lavender farm and it was the one that got away. 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: I'm so sad we missed it. Yeah, it was Doun 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 1: Maui and we technically weren't recording anything on Mauie. That 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 1: was a couple of days at Annie and I had 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: of vacation, but we were still going to go out there. Yeah, 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: time was too short, it was. It was. There were 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: just a lot of turtles to see. There were yeah, 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: many turtles, many beaches to go to, Oh gosh, mountains 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: to climb, tunas to eat, Oh so much tunas to eat? 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: Maybe next time. Not another reason to go back. Yes, 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: there are also other lavender farms. Oh really, of course there. 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: I would love to go. Oh man, I am out 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: of practice with those. You guys, It's okay, it's okay, 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: we're coming back. We're coming back. Um. I also wanted 20 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: to know when I was in high school, I was 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: told by a teacher lions don't like the smell of lavender, 22 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: like they run away from it. And it turns out 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: doing this research, maybe not so much. Um, But I 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 1: bought it hook line and sinker, and to this day 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: I wear lavender sent a deodorant just in case, Just 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: in case, I mean, has this ever been a thing? 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: Might have been? Well, I guess you wouldn't know, because 28 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: the lions are running from the spell of my deodorant. Well, 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: and you're also and you're also fresh. Yes, it's got 30 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: multiple things that are going on with the lavender deodorant. 31 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: But okay, okay, let's get to our question. Lavender. What 32 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: is it? Well, Uh, Lavender is a category of herb 33 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: in the mint family. It's a small flowering shrub type 34 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: plants like one to three feet tall or up to 35 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: about a meter. Uh. Those flowers are typically a silvery 36 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: bluish purple, but can range into white and pink too. 37 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: There they're tiny little things and grow and like ring 38 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: or whorl patterns at the top inch or two of 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: these long spikes that shoot up from the plant um, 40 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 1: the one in one to two inches being like three 41 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: to five cis or so. Those flowers contain a lot 42 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: of nectar. Bees and other pollinators love them. Um, and 43 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: the and the calyx of the flower that the sort 44 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: of like support system cupping the petals. Yeah. Um. It 45 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: contains a lot of strongly scented oils. Floral and spicy 46 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: and sweet and like a little fruity and woody and sharp. Yeah. 47 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: H You can grow lavender from cuttings, which is an 48 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: exciting thing that I've just learned in this research makes 49 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: sense mint family types. There are about species of lavender. 50 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: I've seen numbers range from twenty to like forty eight, 51 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: so some disagreement there, but yeah, there are hundreds of varietals. 52 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: The three main categories though, are what's called true lavender, 53 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: which is the species Lavendula and Gustafolia. Then there's spike lavender, 54 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: which is Lavendula Latin folia, and then there's lavand in, 55 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: which is uh Lavendula intermedia, which is a hybrid of 56 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: those first two things. Intermedia intermedia interesting. All kinds of 57 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: uses for lavender. A lot of them are scent based perfume, soap, shampoo's, conditioners, lotions, deodorant, aromatherapy. 58 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: Food wise, More importantly, this podcast and drinks and mayonades 59 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: on meats and chocolates. This was my favorite chocolate flavor 60 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: we had when we were in Hawaii. Lots of sweets 61 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: like cookies, doughnuts, ice cream cakes infused and alcohol like 62 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: Jenner vodka. I have done this. It was magnificent. The 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: French heard their lamb degrees and fields of lavender and 64 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: hope that the resulting meat will be tender in honey, yes, yeah, yeah, 65 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: great in cocktails and salads. Fresh or dried lavender goes 66 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: especially well with tartish fruits like like berries and citrus, 67 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: which really bring out it's kind of sweet floral notes. 68 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: If you're ever like, oh man, lemon would be so 69 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: good with this. Lavender would probably also be good in there. 70 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but so many, so many uses. Different varieties 71 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: and concentrations can work as antifungals and insect repellents, or 72 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: even insecticides. Note do not eat lavender that is not 73 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: labeled for culinary use, or that you or someone you 74 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: know didn't go yourself. The garden variety may have a 75 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: lot of peticides or or just be way way way stronger. 76 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um. The lavand in tends to have a 77 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: lot more camphor to it, which is fun but maybe 78 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: not maybe not what you want to eat. Yes, and 79 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: going with it, lavender does have a strong flavor. I 80 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: used way too much once in collagen. Oh god, still 81 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: eat it. I still ate the chicken because I was 82 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: a college student who had spent all of her money 83 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: on lavender, but it was not the most pleasurable experience, 84 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: like like like eating a bowl of potpourria. I imagine, 85 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: oh yeah, for days. Because again, but let's talk about 86 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: the nutrition. Yeah, I guess going off of that story, 87 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: probably you shouldn't eat so much lavender that it contributes 88 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: to your daily CLOrk intake. Nope, nope, it's a it's 89 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: a it's a light spice. But there is a lot 90 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: of really interesting research into the possible medicinal benefits of 91 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: lavender um. Preliminary research in vivo in animals and in 92 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: human animals has shown that that lavender can kind of 93 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 1: just chilla being out like like literally, and that it 94 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: can slow down some bodily processes, including the cellular consumption 95 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: of energy and thus production of heat um, but also 96 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: figuratively in that it can reduce anxiety. It seems like 97 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: application orally on the skin and via inhalation can have 98 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: a relaxing effect on a few central nervous system systems. 99 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: In general, better effects have been observed in mild cases 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain management than in more 101 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: severe cases of any of those things. But it has 102 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: performed better than placebo in all of those cases. UM. 103 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: That said, bodies are complicated. More research needs to be 104 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: done the saver model. MM, we need that on a 105 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: T shirt. UH. If you're looking to self treat with lavender, 106 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: do your research, consult a medical professional. UM. Also be 107 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: aware the ingestion of lavender, like medicinal quantities of lavender, 108 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: has been associated with some gastro intestinal discomfort UM, and 109 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: topical application has been associated with mild hormonal changes. UM. 110 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: It can have like a estrogenic effects. So UM, so 111 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 1: maybe limit the amount of pure lavender oil that you 112 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: apply to the skin of young male children. That's a 113 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: very specific advice, like got it heard and seeing Lauren, 114 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Or if you've got other stuff going on 115 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: with your with your hormone balance, then you know, just 116 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: keep that in mind. UM. Again, a short term it 117 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: seems to be absolutely fine and safe for use, but 118 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: more studies need to be done on long term effects. Indeed, 119 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: if we look at numbers, a lot of lavender comes 120 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: from Provence, France, but you can find it growing all over. 121 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: Bulgaria actually produces the most, but yeah, lots in France. 122 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: It's also farmed in England, Russia, Australia, the United States 123 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: and Canada, South Africa and all around the Mediterranean um, 124 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: both the Southern Europe side and the North African side 125 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: and ranging out into Turkey. M Over metric tons of 126 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: lavender oils are produced every year, most of it levandon um, 127 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: which again is kind of sharper and less expensive. As 128 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: of the global market for lavender was worth seventy six 129 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: million dollars um, most of that in non food applications, 130 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: but the food and beverage segment seems to be growing. Wow, Sequiam, 131 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: Washington or perhaps Sequium as the lavender festival and we 132 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: just missed it sty Oh if anyone has been please 133 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: to any lavender festivals, certainly indeed right in it in pictures. 134 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: Is there some kind of crown that we can get 135 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: a scepter? Lavender scepter? It would spell so good, it 136 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: might keep lines away. No, it wouldn't, But I like 137 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:38,479 Speaker 1: to think that it would. Lavender and other edible flowers 138 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: are experiencing a little bit of resurgence when it comes 139 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: to their culinary side. Edible flowers. But how did we 140 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: get here? Well, we'll tell you, but first we're going 141 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: to take one quick break for a word from our sponsor, 142 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: and we're back. Thank you, sponsored, Yes, thank you. Like 143 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: a lot of things we talked about, lavender started out 144 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: as mainly a medicinal thing as far as the historical 145 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: written record goes. Lavender's first mentioned took place over two thousand, 146 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: five hundred years ago, and it was referenced in both 147 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: the New and Old Testament of the Bible. Some historians 148 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: believe that the people of Arabia were the first to 149 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: domesticate lavender. Sometime around six d b c. Lavender made 150 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: its way to France. The ancient Romans used it as 151 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: a medicine and antiseptic for washing and insect repellent. Roman 152 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: soldiers even to lavender with them into battle to have 153 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: available to treat wounds, dropsy, jaundice, kidney disorders, upset stomach, 154 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: and insect fits. Women would be given lavender to clutch 155 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: during childbirth for strength and courage, and from what I 156 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: understand still are in some places it was fairly expensive 157 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: to a pound going for the equivalent of a farmer's 158 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: monthly salary. There's a superstition in Rome at the time 159 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: that asps nested in lavender bushes, which may or may 160 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: not have been a ploy to drive up the price. 161 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: I have a suspicion that it was. It really has 162 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: been used to treat all kinds of things, insomnia, depression, anxiety, fatigue. 163 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: In Chinese traditional medicine. It was thought to have cooling 164 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: properties for the mind and heart. The word lavender comes 165 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: from the Latin lavarre are lavo, meaning to wash. The 166 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: Greeks and Romans frequently used lavender scented bathwater. Or it 167 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: might come from the Latin lividus, meaning bluish and or 168 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: livid um. Either way, Yeah, the two words were associated 169 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: with each other and and would be for a very 170 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: long time, the the washing sense and the bluish sense. 171 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: Right before we recorded this, Lauren and I were discussing 172 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: how we'd agreed on this right. We both thought it 173 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: was spelled a R at the end. Oh yeah, I 174 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: thought that there were It was just nothing but a's 175 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: I don't know, like I spelling is very strange. Lavender 176 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: heavendar with colors. I feel like that Crayola Crown game 177 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: I used to have it had a a R. I 178 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: think I was probably being improperly influenced by like lavendarbiez 179 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: like yeah, like laundromats. Well, I was thinking of crayons, 180 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: and probably incorrectly. So there that goes all right. Um. 181 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: People would also burn lavender innocence for angry gods, and 182 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: they thought that the scent of lavender might keep untamed 183 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: lions ant tiger's calm. So I guess that's where the 184 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: whole lions don't like the smell of it thing came from. 185 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: I've been living a lie. I don't want to calm 186 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: them down. I want them running fear My lavender deodorant 187 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: will not keep the lions away. I must go back 188 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: to the drawing board. I think that either a calm 189 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: lion or a running away lion, I think both are Okay, 190 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: it's true, but I just like the idea of be 191 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: blocking up all tough in the lion taking off and 192 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: people looking at me like whoa, you know what I mean. 193 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: I never had that dream. I've never had that dream. 194 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: Anny oh, it's a wonderful one. I'll try it out later, Okay, 195 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: you should. I highly recommend it. The Egyptians use lavender 196 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: as a part of mummification and also as a perfume. 197 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: One thing I read claimed that Tuton Common's tomb still 198 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: had the smell of lavender when opened three thousand years later. 199 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: Some accounts called lavender Cleopatra's secret weapon, her scent of 200 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: choice one seducing Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar. The Arabians 201 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: and Phoenicians enjoyed the smell of lavender in their frequences. 202 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: That seduction thing may not have been limited to Cleopatra. 203 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: I don't think it was at all. Apparently, women looking 204 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: for a suitor might put a satchel of lavender in 205 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: their cleavage, and there's even a lullabye about it. Lavender's green, 206 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: dilly dilly, Lavender's blue. You must love me, dilly dilly, 207 00:12:54,920 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 1: because I love you. Romantic Up into the ages. In Europe, 208 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: some folks associated lavender with love and considered it uh 209 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: huh and aphrodisiac, of course, though it was also associated 210 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: with like purity um. There's a belief that sprinkling lavender 211 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: water on a loved one's head would keep them chaste. 212 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: A lavender was also believed by some cultures to ward 213 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: off evil spirits. Churches in Spain and Portugal had lavender 214 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: strewn on their floors, and on St. John's Day, uh 215 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: lavender was thrown into the bonfires, perhaps more for luck. 216 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 1: Some Christians believe that putting some lavender in an entrance 217 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: or a keyhole would keep away ghost and the evil eye. 218 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: Beginning in the twelfth century and all the way up 219 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: to eighteen seventy four France, lavender was used to treat lice. 220 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: Around this time, which was Medieval Renaissance. Women who you 221 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: could hire to do your wash were called lavenders. While 222 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: the plague and cholera were a huge concern during the 223 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: sixteenth and seventeenth century, lavender was believed to be a 224 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: preventative for those things. Lavender made the jury Arney to 225 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: the America's in the sixteen hundreds, and then in sixteen 226 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: fifty two one Nicholas Culpepper published The English Physician, which 227 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: was a book of herbal medicines and astrology, because you know, 228 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: that's sort of how things flew at the time. In it, 229 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: he wrote about lavender, this is so well known, being 230 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: an inhabitant in almost every garden, that it needeth no description, 231 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: no description at all. He also associated it with the 232 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: planet mercury. Okay, yeah, I don't know, Okaytloger. Queen Elizabeth 233 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: the First was a big fan of lavender and always 234 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: wanted a jar of lavender concert which jam yeah, it's yeah, 235 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: like a jelly or jam on her royal table. She 236 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: used it as a perfume too, and on top of that, 237 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: she drank lavender tea from migraines. She hired an official 238 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: purveyor of lavender essence to the Queen, it's a wonderful title. 239 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: I love it so much. And she may have been 240 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: onto something with that migraine thing, at least according to 241 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: the herbalist and naturalists of the time. William Turner's work 242 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: herbal included this note about lavender flowers of lavender quilted 243 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: in a cap comfort the brain. Very well. No, I 244 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: don't think that's how I don't think that's how it's useful. 245 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: But I love the idea of people wearing lavender caps. 246 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: Oh man, that that is lovely. Probably smelled nice. John 247 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: Parkinson's wrote something similar in the six Theatrum Botanicum that 248 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: lavender was especially good use for all griefs and pains 249 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: of the head and brain and the tremblings and passions 250 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: of the heart, not only eaten, but also smelled or 251 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: applied to the temples and some of the bears out. 252 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's research to this day about about 253 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: its use in migraines and it can help lessen them. Yeah, 254 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: there you go. Charles the sixth of France wouldn't go 255 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: without lavender on his pillow or in his pillow because 256 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: he thought it would help him have a RESTful night. 257 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: Queen Victoria was integral and popularizing lavender across Europe. She 258 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: kept it in every room for fragrance and cleaning purposes, 259 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: as an air freshener, and for the linen's. The aristocracy 260 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: started growing it ornamentally in their gardens. In the Victorian 261 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: language of flowers, lavender oftentimes represented uh mistrust. Art was 262 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: associated with mistrust, and this is because, according to Henry 263 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: Phillips book Floral Emblems, lavender is frequently used to cover 264 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: disagreeable odors. Yeah, trust anybody trying high disagreeable odors, he 265 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: knew he'd be very suspective by deodor. He would be. 266 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,119 Speaker 1: He would be, I'm like, what if they're just innocently 267 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: trying to ward off lions? Come on, man, I thought 268 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: that's what we were all doing. I thought that's what 269 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: people would assume. It turns out I've just made a 270 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: fool of you and me. It seems the French didn't 271 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: start cooking with lavender until the twentieth century. Combination of 272 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: lavender oil and sphagnum moss was used in the place 273 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: of the limited amount of antiseptic for wounded soldiers during 274 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: World War One, so that's pretty recent. Maud Grieves one 275 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: modern herbal came with this lavender tidbit. In some cases 276 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: of mental depression and delusions, oil of lavender proves a 277 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,719 Speaker 1: real service, and a few drops rubbed on the temple 278 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: will cure nervous headache. Yeah. And then in the nineteen thirties, 279 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: French chemist Renee Maurice get the false so impressed with 280 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: what he saw as the healing properties of lavender after 281 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: he used it to treat a chemical burn, wrote about 282 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: it in a Roman therapy de wheel essentiale ormond Vegeti. 283 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: He coined the word aroma therapy in this book in 284 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: the International Herb Association named lavender the herb of the Year. 285 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah um. And then in a research team out 286 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: of the University of British Columbia sequenced um true lavender's geno. Wow. 287 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. It's all happening. It's all happening right now. 288 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: It is. Oh. And I love I love stuff like 289 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: this that has these these proven anti microbial, anti fungal 290 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: properties that was used to ward off evil spirits uh 291 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: in the olden times, because I'm like, yeah, like our 292 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: bacteria evil spirits? Does that count? Yeah? I think so. 293 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: They were onto something yeah sure yeah. And also I 294 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: guess now that I think about it, I have I 295 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: have this teddy bear that I call heavy Bear because 296 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: he's he's weighted down with like with like barley and 297 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 1: uh and and scented with with like lavender and all 298 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: this stuff inside of him. He's it's it's it's meant. 299 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 1: It's like a line of products that's meant to be 300 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: uh microwaved and then used as like a soothing nighttime thing. 301 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: Although when you tell people that the bear is meant 302 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: to be microwaved, they get very upset. You must serve Oh, 303 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: how could you, But it is very soothing, like I 304 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: don't know, like I like, you know, it's one of 305 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: those things that I guess until I did this research, 306 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: I was never sure if it was just placebo or right. 307 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, my mom's favorite scent is lavender, and when 308 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: I was growing up, I did not like the smell 309 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: of lavender. And it wasn't until because I'm a wild 310 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: woman that I heard maybe do'll protect me for flyings. 311 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm on board. Mom. I love 312 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: the smell, but it does like she has it kind 313 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: of throughout the house and it makes me think of 314 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: her now, which I really it does have that kind 315 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: of nostalgia thing, but it's also through that and possibly 316 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: through some of this research we went over, it has 317 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: been comforting. Yeah. Yeah, all right. It's a divisive flavor 318 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: I found. Do you like floral flavor stuff? Um? Yes, 319 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: but I did not used to. I did not used to? Um, 320 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: but now oh yeah, yeah, I think I always had 321 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,959 Speaker 1: or maybe, like I'm not sure if I encountered floral 322 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: flavored candies and stuff until I was a little bit older, 323 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: maybe like college, high school or call ledge. And yeah, 324 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: by that time, I was like, yeah, I want to 325 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: eat stuff that tastes like roses, like what like, yes, 326 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: I want that a um, yeah, lavenders, it's a really 327 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: it's like a lavender swordbet oh yeah, or like a 328 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: doughnut with the lavender glaze ourcake. Oh no, oh no no. 329 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: Well that's what we have to say about lavender for now. 330 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: Hopefully we will get to one of those lavender farms. 331 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, but we do have a little bit more 332 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: for you. We do, but first we've got one more 333 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: quick break for a word from our sponsor, and we're back. 334 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 1: Thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you, and we're back with listen. Um, 335 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: very soothing. Everyone fell asleep, right, and so you won't 336 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: get to hear this wonderful listener. Janice wrote, I've been 337 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: to write this email for some time, and finally, now 338 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: that I have a batch of Jack Tors chocolate chip 339 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: cookies in the oven after forty eight hours of doubt chilling, 340 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you about Bar Snacks in Lebanon. 341 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: My fiance and I traveled there last year and much 342 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: are surprise, Bars won only served complimentary mixed nuts, but 343 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: a small plate of lightly salted carrot sticks and lemon juice. 344 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: These snacks were served without fail at every bar we 345 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: visited in Beirut and in the town of Biblos. The 346 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: only bar that we happened upon that didn't do this 347 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: was an Irish tab pub owned by a Russian woman. 348 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: I love that kind of stuff for bar snack. Raw 349 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: vegetables certainly are not the first thing to come to 350 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: my mind, but chilled carrot sticks and lemon juice make 351 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: for a really pleasant tasty side on any warm Lebanese night. 352 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: I have no idea about the origin of this tradition, 353 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 1: and questioning our bartenders mostly resulted in the shrug. Again, 354 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: it's just what you do for an answer. Huh. But 355 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: that does sound really refreshing. It does sound delightful. Oh man, okay, 356 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: all right snacks Ideas Gretchen wrote while listening to your 357 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: m R. E episode, I was struck by how concerned 358 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: he sounded at the idea of heating food over C four. 359 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: Having seen this in a documentary, I wanted to assure 360 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: you it's much safer than it sounds, thank goodness. S 361 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: four only explodes when it's exposed to electrical current. If 362 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: it's exposed to flame, it burns slowly. A small amount 363 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: would be separated for a single use, or one corner 364 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: of a large block would be lit then easily smothered 365 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: when the heating was done. It also reminded me of 366 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: an interesting anecdote I was once told about my grandfather. Apparently, 367 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: while he was a mechanic in the Air Force, he 368 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: and his buddies would chill beer with jet fuel. As 369 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: described me, the method was to one barry a six 370 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: pack in the ground with several inches of soil on top. 371 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: Two douse the soil over the beer with the jet fuel. 372 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: Three light the jet fuel. Shocked face, Yep, we're making it. 373 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: And in the email in a moj form, I us 374 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: the intense flame at the top of the soil created 375 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: a lot of air flow through the loosened soil around 376 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: the beer, thus chilling it. Innovative this that that was. 377 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: That was a roller coaster of an email, because I 378 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: was at once comforted and then terrified of another thing 379 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: that I didn't know you needed to be terrifized. Yeah, 380 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: well we were, so we gotta find a way to 381 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: chill out of beer. I know, Hey, you make do 382 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: with what you've got. It's true, It's true, very impressive. 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