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Textile use: things to do
There's lots of room to expand the textile uses of madder: traditonal "red coat" uniforms, "hunting pink" coats. Madder was also an important economic crop in Europe prior to the invention of synthetic dyes. Will add as time permits. - PKM 03:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Medical Quackery
The final paragraph in the "History" section seems gratuitous. It could be shortened to "Madder was believed to have medicinal purposes in the 1600's." or some such, using Culpeper's Complete Herbal as a reference. I don't think anything would be lost by omitting the (lately disputed) fact that it is ruled by Mars and its use for "swollen spleen" 75.172.64.61 (talk) 06:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)