❤️ The name borage may come from the Celtic term barrach, which means "man of courage".
❤️ John Gerard, a 16th-century botanist, says that Roman naturalist Pliny called the herb Euphrosinum because it "maketh a man merry and joyfull". Pliny also claimed that borage was the "nepenthe" mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, which brought about total forgetfulness.
❤️ In the early 17th century, English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon wrote that borage "hath an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky melancholie".
❤️ Nicholas Culpeper, a noted 17th-century English botanist, commented that the herb was beneficial for treating putrid fevers, venomous snakebite, jaundice, consumption, sore throat and rheumatism.
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