Our herbs are of the highest quality. They are Organic food grade herbs, shipped to us from all over the world. Gentian Root is an excellent herb for drawing love & creating better luck in romance. Suggested magical uses for Organic Gentian Root: -Make a tea of Gentian Root, Red Rose Petals, Tonka Beans, Catnip & Burdock & apply it to your body to attract a new or known lover. -Carry a pinch of Gentian Root, Cardamom, & Lovage in a red flannel bag to creating a lucky love mojo bag. -Dress a Come to Me candle in Kiss Me Now oil & sprinkle a pinch of Gentian Root on top to attract a passionate love. -Burn Gentian Root, Copal & Patchouli on a charcoal for a love incense to draw someone to you. Description They are generally perennial plants, a few species are annual or biennial. Most have a rosette of few basal, sessile, opposite leaves. The flowers are usually large in proportion to the modest dimensions of the plants, usually blue, but some species have white, cream, yellow or red flowers. Blue flower species predominate in the northern hemisphere, red in the Andes, & white in New Zealand. Solitary or in inflorescences, almost always spikes, sometimes more or less complex tops. Flowers generally tubular or bell-shaped, actinomorphic, pentameric. Well developed calyx tube, sometimes cleft & spataceous. Corolla lobes shorter than the tube, alternating with others, petaloid, shorter; stamens inserted below the middle of corolla tube, without appendages, pollen in monads; ovary stipitate, style short or indistinct, persistent, with two stigmata; nectaries on the stipe of the ovary, with five petals on the corolla & the calyx formed by five sepals. The ovary is sessile & has nectariferous glands. The fruit in capsules, pointed ovoids; & the seeds are very numerous & small, with a reticulated cover. Uses Many beverages are made with gentian root. Gentiana lutea is used to produce gentian, a distilled beverage produced in the Alps. Some species are harvested for the manufacture of apritifs, liqueurs, & tonics. Gentian root is a common beverage flavouring for bitters. The soft drink Moxie contains gentian root. The Swiss apritif Suze is made with gentian. Americano apritifs contain gentian root for bitter flavoring. It is an ingredient in the Italian liqueur Aperol. It is also used as the main flavor in the German after-dinner digestif called Underberg, & the main ingredient in Angostura bitters & Peychaud’s Bitters. The bitter principle of gentian root is primarily gentiopicrin (also called gentiopicroside), a glycoside. A 2007 paper by a Japanese group identified 23 compounds in fresh gentian root. Gentiopicrin was absent from fresh root, so it possibly develops during drying & storage of the root. Select the weight of your order since 1 oz to 4 oz of the Herb. The volume of the bags varies by the density of each herb. WHY ARE HERBS MAGICAL? Herbs are living things which have a vibration. The energy that herbs give off can support our
