Aromatic Of the Day with Associated Facts and Customs:
Rosemary has been used for centuries as a hair tonic. It stimulates the follicles. That sounds ticklish, but it’s a fairly subtle effect. Rosemary stimulates blood circulation, and is a general and respiratory tonic.
The rosemarinus officinalis essential oil used in dollop TM is Spanish, a robust, camphoraceous Mediterranean type with good levels of a-pinene and 1,8-cineole.
Of course rosemary is a well-known culinary herb. Hippocrates the Father of Medicine thought you should cook it with vegetables as a tonic for your liver and spleen.
Back in the day, the splendid physician Nicholas Culpeper said of rosemary: “It helps a weak memory and quickens the senses.”
Rosemary’s penetrating, refreshing aroma certainly is a cephalic wake up call: the right dose is as good as a morning coffee for rubbing on your head.
Note: do not rub the coffee on your head: for optimum results use dollop.
Word of the Day:
dollop
–noun
1. a blob of some substance: dollop of whipped cream.
2. a small, globulous quantity: a dollop of mud.
3. an all-natural aromatic hair styling pomade, launched in 2008 in Wellington, New Zealand.
–verb (used with an object)
1. to scoop, or dispense in dollop-sized amounts: to dollop pomade through the hair.
[Suspected origin: Norse dialect: dolp = lump; Icelandic: dolpur = fat man]
