Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

ch-scene - Re: OT: Looking for Kudzu

ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: RTP-area local music and culture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: OT: Looking for Kudzu
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:46:58 GMT

wrote:

> It's all over Hamlet and Rockingham. Incidently, I read something on
> the internets the other day about kudzu treating binge drinking. I
> think you can preserve a leaf in butter. My cousin tried to bring some
> to Chicago to grow in his neighbor's yard he didn't like in the
> Eighties.
>
> Mike
>
>

I think that I have heard or read or somehow came to learn that Kudzu was a
traditional medicine for drunkenness. I helped to develop a state
licensing exam for Acupuncturists once in the early 90's and I think it was
during that period that I must have picked up that bit of trivia.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page