Hazelnuts:
Hazelnuts.. The name filbert is the correct name for the tree and nut.
“in China, from the year 2838 B.C., the filbert took its place among the five sacred nourishments God bestowed on human beings. In olden times the filbert was used as a medicine & a tonic.”
The Greek physician Dioscorides 1800 years ago, emphasized the healing properties of filbert:
“It cures chronic coughing if pounded filbert is eaten with honey. Cooked filbert mixed with black pepper cures the cold. If the ointment produced by mashing burnt filbert shells in suet is smeared on the head where hair does not grow due to normal baldness or to some disease, hair will come again.”
