Word: herbal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...
...rate posters sully the Lascoff windows-each has its traditional jewel-colored globe of tinted water, many of them museum pieces. The shop itself is museumlike. One wall is covered by part of Dr. Lascoff's collection of herbal prescription jars, bottles, mortars and pestles, some of which date back to alchemists of the Middle Ages. A tiny gallery is lined with cabinets of rare drugs, books and neatly arranged antique scales and measures. Behind two neat enamel benches there begins the largest drugstore library in the U.S. The 1,000-odd volumes are in many languages...