The Bible and Cancer: Can the vegetables name in the Bible fight cancer? by MD Ettore Piroso

Author:MD, Ettore Piroso [MD, Ettore Piroso]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Isaiah 28:27

“For the dill is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart wheel rolled over the cumin

in; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.”

In 1627, English poet Michael Drayton wrote Nymphidia. A story about a fairy court centered on Queen Mab, King Oberon, Titania, and other fairies. The plot is narrated with a subtle sarcastic and mocking tone that did not sit well with some of his contemporaries. Others, instead, praised the poem as a timeless masterpiece. One of the verses read:

“There with her Vervain and her Dill,

That hindereth Witches of their Will”

Drayton, who acquired relevance during the Queen Elizabeth era, did not fabricate the notion that dill could fend against witches. It was a credo of the Anglo-Saxon popular culture. He reflected in his lines the fact that for the people living in Medieval England. The existence of witches was real.

And of course, the “remedies” against them were real too. A number of rituals and recipes were common knowledge: a tea brewed from dill could erode the malicious powers of the witch who dinked, keeping dill seeds under one’s pillow will keep sorceress away, mothers seeking a restful and safe sleep for their children would hang dill from the child’s crib, and so on.

Far from away from the land of Shakespeare and in another time, New England Puritans used dill to resolve more palpable issues: calm their children’s appetite.

Alice Morse Earle, in her book “The Sabbath in Puritan New England,” gives a detailed account of how they worshiped. The congregation houses were immersed in an ambiance of austerity and simplicity. Long planks with legs served as traditional sit. As they become more sophisticated, the sits incorporated three tiers: the lower for support of the feet, the highest one to put hats, and the one in the middle was the place to lay bibles and sermon books.

The services were extended and the time always to seemed to pass painfully slowly for the children, particularly during the sermon. The little ones were the more vulnerable to the calls of the human body and when that would happen, as children usually do. They would become restless and noisy.

Puritan parents, in anticipation of this problem during the Sabbath, would carry the solution in their pockets. When the onset of hunger would strike, they will give them seeds of dill to quench their sudden needs. Effective and natural, the remedy would remain in the memory of the concurrence as a symbolic part of the Puritans way of life during the colonial times

The book of Mrs. Morse Earle quotes a poem written by an elder Puritan in remembrance of his former church no longer in existence. His narrative is as clear and descriptive as a photograph:

"And when I tired and restless grew,

Our next pew neighbor, Mrs. True,

Reached her kind hand the top rail through

To hand me dill, and fennel too,

And sprigs of caraway.”

"And as I munched the spicy seeds,

I dimly felt that kindly deeds

That thus supply our present needs,

Though only gifts of pungent weeds,

Show true religion.

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