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Meaning of silfio



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

silfio
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It is the castilianization of a genus of plants of the Asteraceae family, which corresponds to Silphium in latin and technical way. They are perennial herbaceous plants with flowers. usually yellow. In ancient times it was the name of an aromatic plant, used as seasoning and for medicinal use in Greece. His throat was tapped. Today is already by and corresponded to the laserpicio and very similar to asafoetida (thought disappeared since the middle of the 1st century, due to over-exploitation and the difficulty of spreading it and grow it).

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

In the Greek dictionary the term silphion is translated by laserpicio, aromatic plant. Was in ancient times a plant similar to the giant fennel in Tangiers of the genus Ferula whose specific identity still unknown although we have some description in Pliny the elder, Theophrastus, and Strabo and his image is preserved in any currency of the Roman province Cyrenaica to the North of Libya, where they grew rich to extinction? in the 1st century. I was used in the kitchen, as aphrodisiac, abortion and many other ways. Some have regarded it as the aspirin of the ancient.

  










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