Butcher's Broom Root | Ruscus aculeatus

🌿 Overview:
Tough, tawny roots once pulled from Europe’s dense woodland underbrush, butcher’s broom root bears an earthy, subtly bitter essence carried through generations of old-world tradition.

🔮 Traditional Uses:
Historically infused into folk remedies and ritual blends. Today cherished more for its cultural legacy and craft applications than for any culinary purpose.

✨ Lore & Myth:
Named for its role in sweeping butchers’ blocks clean, this humble plant was also hung by doorways to ward off unwelcome spirits and shield homes from ill luck.

🌍 Origin & Sourcing:
Responsibly wild-harvested and gently dried to preserve their rugged texture and deep, woodsy fragrance.

🧭 Notes:
Rustic, woody, and faintly bitter, evoking shaded forest floors and the timeworn hedgerows of a distant countryside.