Eye-of-Newt? What is it used for?

Question

I don't want the defintion of what it is, I know what it is. I want to know what it is used for...and please..PLEASE; no fluffy bunny answers from some Silver Steaming Pile Of Camel Crap Ravenwolf Llewllyn book or from a teenage self-proclaimed thousand year old "wiccan" priestess. I just want an answer from someone who knows the herbal and quixotic value of it; not a new age lecture.

Answer 1

Herbal uses: stimulates blood flow and helps to improve circulation and warm the skin, easing painful muscles and sore joints. As a stimulant, it helps to improve digestion and metabolize fat.

Quixotic value:burned as incense to attract money. when eaten, is said to increase fertility in women.

Answer 2

Poison.
Newts have the ability to regenerate limbs, eyes and spinal cords. The cells at the site of the injury have the ability to de-differentiate, reproduce rapidly, and differentiate again to create a new limb or organs which make them handy pets to have around if you are mixing poisons.

Newts produce toxins in their skin and secretions as a defense mechanism against predators. Taricha newts of western North America are particularly toxic; the Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa) of the Pacific Northwest produces more than enough tetrodotoxin to kill an adult human foolish enough to swallow any part(s) of a newt. In order to cause harm, the toxins have to enter the body by being ingested or entering a break in the skin.

Newts must be handled carefully and with covered hands. All instrimunts coming in contact with a newt must also be cleansed.

Answer 3

Eye of newt is used to successfully treat gout, typhus, pattern male alopecia, benign prosthetic hypertrophy, cancer, arthritus, mental depression and can also be used as form of birth control.

Answer 4

The witches in Macbeth include "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog" along with many other repulsive ingredients in a recipe for their potion, but the "eye of newt" stands foremost in the popular imagination as the archetypical arcane spell ingredient.

Answer 5

First off Catherine R...

I love, like the religious nutter you clearly are, you make a comment and then don't allow people to reply to you in IM or email. Secondly, you clearly didn't read my entire question, like bible banger you are, you only read what you wanted and twisted that up! You over-zealous snerts do the same thing with your scripture, you read the bible but you don't study it. Big difference.

Now that I am passed that, I would like to stay I am not a teenager I am twenty-eight...and I am Christian myself (Catholic but I suppose that isn't "Christian" enough for the self righouts likes of you!! Even though without Catholicism you wouldn't have Christianity OR the bible but that is a different topic.) Anyway, I asked about it ONLY. Not because I want to use it or I want to be a witch or wiccan (I moved passed that years ago) I have just herd much talk of it lately and although I know what it is I never really knew what people used it for and I wasn't getting the answers I wanted off the internet. I have no intent of using , it simply was an answer. Just because I am Christian dosen't mean I can't questions about things no necassirly considerde Christian. Catherine R you are one of those people who started out in life with an open mind, trying to understand thing...so you got a few half hearted answers so now think you know everything BUT in reality you don't even know yoursel for who you are; that is why you go around bullying people with your "find God" nonsense when you don't even know exactly what it is they believe in. How arrogant, trite and insolent...not exactly a reply I would expect from a so-called "godly" person.
You have no intent on loving God or bringing people to God YOU just want to lord over others and preach since you think you just THAT great!
You if had any spine you would leave you IM's open for being to defend themselves to your face. I pray that YOU find God someday and come out of your shell of spirtual, mental and emotional immaturity.
Oh and using something for herbal value isn't something a "misguided" teenager does....what do you think early Christians used for various treatments? Read the bible..herbs are all over that. Oh wait you do read the bible I forgot...it is studying it you don't do.
Insulting people unfoundedly and then tossing "gods" name in for arguments sake dosen't make you a Christian little Catherine ok? You are the farthest thing from a Christian I can think of. What an offensive little twit you are.

Answer 6

Hey now, I love Ravenwolf Llewllyn

Don't hate

Answer 7

It is used by newt to see???

Answer 8

http://www.answers.com/topic/amphibians-and-humans