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Thyme
Day 17: Thyme
Inspiration was short for yesterday's image. I ended up passing a parking lot with some really nice leading lines in the covered area and decided to roll with it.
Thought to have brought courage, thyme was once given as gifts to warriors before battle and burnt as incense in temples in the Middle Ages. It was also thought to aid sleep and ward off nightmares. In the same time period, thyme used as incense was burned at funerals and placed on coffins because it was thought to aid passage into the afterlife. The Romans used thyme to purify their rooms and in cooking—probably the most common use of it today alongside its medicinal uses. The essential oil of common thyme is 20-54% thymol, an active antimicrobial ingredient in Listerine and other mouthwashes. It was also used to medicate bandages before modern medicine.
[Again, sourced from Wikipedia's entry on thyme]
Thyme
Day 17: Thyme
Inspiration was short for yesterday's image. I ended up passing a parking lot with some really nice leading lines in the covered area and decided to roll with it.
Thought to have brought courage, thyme was once given as gifts to warriors before battle and burnt as incense in temples in the Middle Ages. It was also thought to aid sleep and ward off nightmares. In the same time period, thyme used as incense was burned at funerals and placed on coffins because it was thought to aid passage into the afterlife. The Romans used thyme to purify their rooms and in cooking—probably the most common use of it today alongside its medicinal uses. The essential oil of common thyme is 20-54% thymol, an active antimicrobial ingredient in Listerine and other mouthwashes. It was also used to medicate bandages before modern medicine.
[Again, sourced from Wikipedia's entry on thyme]