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'Asafetida' (ass-uh-fuh-TYE-duh) is a soft, lumpy, brown gum resin (thickened plant sap) that is very bad-tasting and which smells awful.
It used to be used as a medication many, many years ago, but is most well-known as a substance to keep away ghosts and demons. In this use, it was carried in a little metal or wooden holder worn as a necklace.
Given its bad smell, it probably kept away other people, too!
I wore it and my children did also. it was to ward off diseases....nothing to do with keeping away ghost or demons. Yes, it did have a pungent odor and not pleasant to smell.
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What is asfidity made of?
Asfidity
Who sales asfidity now?
where can i find it
What is asfidity?
Asfidity was a block of some type of herb with a very strong pungent smell. I know it was sold in the 1950's through the early 1980's. I am sure it was available much earlier but I remember my grandmother would pinch off a small piece of it and put in in a small piece of sackcloth and pin it to the insides of our shirt or dress... it was pinned close to the chest area. She said that it warded off diseases and we had to wear it to school everyday. We used to laugh and say the reason we didn't get sick was because we smelled funny and no one wanted to get close to us. When my children came along in the 70's and 80's I made them wear it also. I am not sure if it helped or not..but I believed in it and they really were never sick that much. I now have grandchildren and have tried to find it but it is no longer sold. I am not sure what it really was...I am thinking some kind of herb.
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