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Remedia Amoris (also known as Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love; c. 2 AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid. In this companion poem to The Art of Love , Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone.
A love potion (poculum amatorium) [1] is a magical liquid which supposedly causes the drinker to develop feelings of love towards the person who served it. Another common term to describe the potion, philtre , is thought to have originated from the ancient Greek term philtron (' love charm'), via the French word philtre .
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It is used for a variety of purposes in traditional medicine; tulsi is taken in many forms: as herbal tea, dried powder, fresh leaf or mixed with ghee. Essential oil extracted from Karpoora tulasi is mostly used for medicinal purposes and in herbal cosmetics. [112] Oenothera: Evening primrose
Origanum dictamnus, the dittany of Crete, Cretan dittany or hop marjoram, is a tender perennial plant that grows 20–30 cm high. It is known in Greek as δίκταμο (díktamo, cf. "dittany") or in the Cretan dialect as έρωντας (erontas, "love").
Paris quadrifolia, the herb Paris [3] or true lover's knot, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in temperate and cool areas throughout Eurasia, from Spain to Yakutia, and from Iceland to Mongolia. [1] It prefers calcareous soils and lives in damp and shady places, especially old established woods and stream banks.
Not quite as ubiquitous as liquamen, but just as necessary in the Roman kitchen, was the herb silphium...Life in Cyrenaica revolved around [silphium] to such an extent that the dramatist Antiphanes, in the fourth century BC, made one of his characters groan: "I will not sail back to the place from which we were all carried away, for I want to ...
The theory was used to critique a previously asserted evolutionary theory of romantic love proposed by Helen Fisher, [3] that romantic love is a form of courtship attraction. [6] Bode's theory explains not only one process in the emergence and subsequent evolution of romantic love, but also proposed a new model of the mechanisms of romantic love.