Scent: Aloe, Camphor, Menstral blood
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In this area I'll me addressing the majority of the known properties of each item rather than just the scent of each.
There are a variety of ways to prepare any type of plant in this entire book; Poultice (thick cream), powder (dried/ground), infusion (tea), tincture (alcoholic extract), and essential oil
(distilled) are the basics. It's mentioned here, that the scent of each usage can be different even if it's the same item.
That is to say that if used as eyewash or to comfort a wound that the preparation of the same item can have different, yet similar, scent associated to the same item.
Say an aloe cream versus an aloe tea or even the essential oil of the aloe can each seem to smell different compared to one another even though they're each from the same plant.
Aloes: There are a good variety of aloes and they're all native to tropical areas. Used for centuries for skin irritations and for the comforting of the wounded.
Its leaves are broken open and directly applied for the treatment of sunburn; insect bites, wrinkles and also crushed to cure ringworm and tapeworm.
Aloe has been noted as a skin conditioner and healer throughout the history of mankind. Its infusions have been used as a douche, eyewash; cough suppressant, asthmatic relief, also
for urinary problems and ulcers. Aloe is obviously watery in nature, evidenced by its make up, thick leaves, and inner pulp. Bearing thick fleshy flowers.
Camphor: Camphor is a resin and crystalline substance that has been used for a variety of reasons from an insect repellent to a food spice.
It is highly poisonous in larger doses. But used to flavor all kinds of foods and ice creams. It's an active ingredient in vabo-rub and steam inhaler medicines.
It creates a cooling effect when applied to the skin. It has a strong menthol scent to it.
It has been traded for centuries and there are records of it in Sanskrit. Camphor was most likely our first menthol in trade.
Menstrual Blood: Menstrual blood has a very distinct quality and essence in the formation of all of earth's cultures since the dawn of man for obvious reasons.
Considering it is the essence of the formation of our human bodies and the nutrition of the female womb for the beginning of our lives I would say that this is extremely important.
Menstruation has a scent and that scent creates effects in far more ways than most people are comfortable talking about.
It is a touchy subject and people like to avoid it as a subject.
It is, however highly potent and extremely powerful to, of course, to the fact of what it actually is in each of our formations.
It is considered that a woman is more powerful during her menstruation period.
As mentioned earlier Solomon would refuse entrance to the temple to women on their period and he had 700 wives and 300 on the side.
Whether or not this was in fact true, the idea here is that he was seeing a lot of women.
He knew the power of women, apparently not well enough as it's fabled to be his greatest downfall, or one of them.
But he also did do a fair amount of writing, listing and diagramming. That is something I thank King Solomon for.
Anyway the point here is made that a woman's menstruation can be used for some extremely powerful work in either the creative or destructive end.
Any of these works should be thought out carefully due to the fact that a woman (or women) using these fluids for ritual works is/are attached to the work being done.
This attachment is long lasting and highly effective for the duration of their lives. I would see it as a tattoo but they can be removed.
I'd say loss of a finger would be more appropriate but it's not always a negative thing depending on the work being intended.
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