Sawbones: Asafoetida
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Is Silphium a Good Food?
The substance we're talking about asked Fatida comes from India now. It probably initially arrived in India from Afghanistan because that's where it grows, as early as 600 BCE. The Europeans were like, Oh my gosh, this is an overwhelming smell for us. And so they called it devil's dung or stinking gum. So you could use it in place of those things if either you didn't have those things or in some religious traditions, you couldn't eat them.
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