Lettuce in history

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Lettuce through the ages

Historians suppose that lettuce originated from a wild green plant with bitter leaves from the Mediterranean area. Lettuce was cultivated in Ancient Egypt about 4500 years ago. Min, the Egyptian God of fertility, was frequently portrayed with a rosette of lettuce in his hands. At that, ancient Egyptians valued the seeds of the plant, because they were producing oil from lettuce seeds. Ancient Persians were the first to use lettuce leaves as food, and the Romans were the first to discover therapeutic properties of this plant. It is said that Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar ordered to built a statue in one of his temples to honor lettuce: according to Augustus, therapeutic effects of lettuce saved him from an illness. Source: guide2herbalremedies.com Read more at www.altmeds.com

 

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