Description

Kelp (Ascophyllum Nodosum) Powder

HERB COMMON NAME :  Kelp

HERB SCIENTIFIC NAME :  Ascophyllum Nodosum

OTHER NAMES :  Cut Weed

FAMILY :  Fucaceae

ASSOCIATIONS & CORRESPONDENCES :

• Element: Water
• Planet: Jupiter
• Direction:  West
• Zodiac Sign: Cancer
• Chakra: 7^th Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
• Energy:  Yin
• Gender:  Feminine
• Rune:  Dagaz
• Tarot: The Hanged Man (XII)
• Animal: Sea Otter
• Sabbat or Holiday:
• Deity or God / Goddess Association: Salacia

Parts Used:  Leaf

Description:  Kelp is a type of seaweed, specifically long-frond brown algae, which grows to lengths of 200 feet off Japan, Europe, and North America. Kelp is a rich source of natural iodine. It also contains at least 14 vitamins and 18 minerals, including folate, niacin, vitamin K, calcium, zinc, potassium, and manganese.

Kelp is also added to bath water and to foot soaks to help ease muscle aches, stiff joints, and minor skin irritations.

Early fisherman burned the plant for fuel and wrapped, baked, and ate fish in it.

For several decades in the days before iodized salt, Europeans and North Americans harvested Kelp for its iodine. The fronds were cut off exposed rocks at low tide. Eventually other iodine sources replaced Kelp, and the harvesting ceased.

Historical Uses:  SUPER FOOD, iodine deficiency, goiter, muscle aches, stiff joints, irritated skin

Mystical Intentions:  protection while travelling at sea, safe travel, calming the sea

Taste & Smell:  Kelp has a strong, foul odor when fresh, but baking deodorizes it.

Botany, Cultivation & Harvesting:  Ascophyllum Nodosum is seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean. It is common on the north-western coast of Europe (from Svalbard to Portugal) including east Greenland and the north-eastern coast of North America.

Kelp is an aquatic plant that grows in the ocean attached to rocks. It is found in a range of coastal habitats, mostly on sheltered and moderately exposed sites on ocean shores. Kelp attaches itself to rocks and boulders in the ocean using a structure called a “holdfast”. Its long fronds with large egg-shaped air bladders grow upwards in the water. The fronds can reach 2 m in length, are olive-brown in color, and are somewhat compressed but without a mid-rib.

During low tide, Kelp is cut off of the exposed rocks where it grows. The species is predominantly hand-harvested using sickles, knives and various cutting and raking tools. Harvesting is done both from the shore and by boat. It can be cut from rocks while the plants are suspended using small boats and cutting rakes to minimize the disturbance of the plants. Mechanical “cutter rakes” have also been used in the harvest process.

Kelp is dried and made into granules or powder. Store dried Kelp in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.

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