GRGR(6) - English candy - cubeb

[nconaty at juno.com]

"It is unspeakably awful.  Slothrop's head  begins to reel with camphor
fumes, his eyes are running, his tongue's a hopeless holocaust.  Cubeb? 
He used to _smoke_ that stuff."

About twenty years ago I was staying in a house with lots of cats and
suffering from allergies to them. I read in an herbal that smoking cubeb
berries could help. Having a pipe lying around, I decided to try it.
I packed the pipe with the berries, which looked like pepper corns, and
lit up. As the first wisp of smoke entered my lungs they seized up. No
air went in or out. The smoke backed up through my trachea and nose,
diffused into my brain and withered my eyeballs. This was followed about
twenty seconds later by spasmodic coughing, gasping, wheezing then
panting, sniffling, whimpering and sneezing (a cat had entered the room).

-Neil (just saying no to cubeb)






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