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#FolkloreSunday: Our #Celtic ancestors regarded Swiss chard (Gallo-Celtic: Blutthagio; Breton: Tut Lob, Tut Lub) as a highly respected medicinal plant with a wide range of uses. The Druid physicians prescribed it for intestinal sluggishness as well as nervousness and mild excitability. Swiss chard was also administered when patients had too few red blood cells.`
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“