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Turmeric is purported to have all of the qualities attributed to Silphium where as Asafoetida does not.
by antattack 5y ago
Turmeric is purported to have all of the qualities attributed to Silphium where as Asafoetida does not.
- mcguire 5y ago"[A]safoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium [by the Romans], and had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both." -- the article