Brazilians attribute stomachic, emollient and resolutive properties to the bitter roots.
French trappers knew the plant as racème amer (bitter root).
He experimented with ingredients like bitter dandelion roots and decided they would not sell.
They were obliged to eat whatever they could: bitter roots, the bark of trees, and even mushrooms.
So-called "bitter" roots of the cassava plant may contain up to 1 gram of HCN per kilogram.
That conflict had ancient, bitter roots.
It is the mataput - the word means drinking a bitter root from a common cup - and it is a traditional reconciliation ceremony.
And this is horseradish - any bitter root will do, for all the years of bile they swallowed as slaves.
They gnawed on the raw roots, bitter and dry, and ate a slice of bread each.
In 1972, he turned his back on New York and returned to his southern roots, broken, bitter and alcoholic.