by Diane Morris | Dec 18, 2019 | Flaxseed
Are you wondering how to brew flaxseed tea? Then you’ve come to the right place. The impetus for this blog was a query posted by a reader who brewed some flaxseed tea and found it too goopy to stir. Her request for an explanation of why her flaxseed tea was so...
by Diane Morris | Dec 22, 2016 | Flaxseed, Medicine
My previous blog post described flaxseed’s chemical and therapeutic properties as shown in Dr. Andrew Duncan’s book The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, published in 1803.1 He described flaxseed’s historical uses, its mucilage content, its oil (expressed...
by Diane Morris | Dec 8, 2016 | Flaxseed, Medicine
One of the top keywords that bring readers to my blog is “flaxseed.” I’m not surprised, for flaxseed—also called “linseed”—is popular here in North America and elsewhere for its many dietary and medicinal uses. I love to talk about...
by Diane Morris | Jul 7, 2016 | Childbirth, Medicine
My previous post on childbed fever described the widespread belief that childbed fever — what today we call puerperal infections — was mainly caused by breathing foul, noxious air that arrived on the wind, permeated hospital furniture and people’s clothing, or...
by Diane Morris | Oct 9, 2014 | Jane Austen, Life & Times, Medicine
During Jane Austen’s day, linseed tea and other preparations made with linseed were prescribed by doctors and apothecaries to treat a variety of aliments. A simple recipe from Dr. William Buchan’s popular book Domestic Medicine was among those medicines commonly used...
