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Heath Pea
by Amy Ling in news
The Heath Pea is making a comeback as a weight loss aid
The Heath Pea was used in jolly old England by King Charles II. He used it to help keep his mistresses slim and shapely. Now experts in the U.K. are hoping the humble Heath Pea could make a comeback and help with the nation's battle against obesity.
The Heath Pea was traditionally used as an appetite suppressant in troubled times when crop failure occurred regularly. Dr. Brian Moffat is an expert on medieval remedies, and he told BBC Radio Scotland that he thought the Heath Pea could really work.
"We have been dealing with some anonymous little tubers, which have been chopped up in to quarters.
"The tubers are of heath pea or bitter vetch.
"If you ate one of these pea sized tubers you are meant to 'not eat, not want to eat and not miss eating for weeks and even in to months'.
"They were actually used as a measure to ward off hunger once crops had failed in the fields.
"We thought we must take this further because the plants seemed to become obsolete really at the time when mass potato cultivation came in.
"Before that it was a common measure in crisis.
"We thought if this can ward off hunger for weeks in to months, and by all accounts they are otherwise innocuous, there are possibilities in this.
"We have taken our idea forward and set up a company, just upon the unlikely assumption that a medieval medicine might have modern usefulness."
Published: Thursday 06th of March 2008 09:43:59 AM
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