The leaves can be boiled in milk and used as a poultice for external ulcers. This plant is poison! While it has been historically used medicinally, there are many safer options available to you today. The roots should be dug in the third or fourth year.
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Keep it in a sheltered position in full sun. They should be kept moist and weed-free and not transplanted after the first year. Seeds should be as fresh as possible and scattered over well-tilled, light soil in the fall. It may also have been mentioned in the Song of Solomon. Mandrakes are mentioned in the Bible Leah bought a night with Jacob from Rachel with some Mandrakes which Rachel wanted to help her conceive. Possession of one of these mandrake dolls could be used as evidence during witch trials. Little dolls were sometimes made of mandrake roots and kept to aid the household and answer important questions. Once harvested, a witch must wash it in wine and wrap it in silk for storage. Some legends say that you could harvest only after sunset, or that you must draw a circle with a sword or wand three times around the plant before harvesting. So, to avoid this fate, you were supposed to tie a dog to the plant and he would pull it up and die in the man’s place. The sound would kill a man or drive him insane. The plant was said to grow under the gallows of murderers, sprung from the bodily drippings of criminals and to shriek when dug up.
The Female roots were the most valuable and believed to be a useful charm to promote luck and wealth.
If the root was split into two, it was considered female. The ancients imagined Mandrake root to look human in form and was often pictured in various texts as a man with a very long beard, or a woman with a very bushy head of hair. The Anglo-Saxons considered mandrake, as well as periwinkle, the definitive herbs for use in cases of demonic possession. The name Mandragora comes from the Greek meaning “hurtful to cattle”.
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