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Old 10-18-2005, 01:39 AM   #289 (permalink)
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"Well, it's of interest to Herbology those plants which have medical properties over magical properties, but too including animated plants which can only be explained with magic. Orchids Salep is very nutritive and demulcent, and it forms a diet of especial value to convalescents and children, being boiled with milk or water, flavoured and prepared in the same way as arrowroot.

"It's said a decoction flavoured with sugar and spice, or wine, is an agreeable drink for invalids and to allay irritation of the gastro-intestinal canal, it is used in mucilage made by shaking 1 part of powdered Salep with 10 parts of cold water," she stopped, noticing she was rambling. "Anyways, it's not an orchid but it's a good guess. Orchids are darker in color and doesn't have the leaves shape."

Now she was positively teasing, "So you want to try another time or should I tell you?"
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