Are Hops used for anything other than beer?
There is one german patent for adding hops to sausages as a “natural” preservative. Substance prevents gram-negative bacteria from growing in the beer or wort. Oil of Hops also used in perfumes, cereal beverages, mineral waters, and tobacco. Extracts are used in skin creams and lotions, in Europe, for alleged skin-softening properties Folk Medicine Dried it is used medicinally as a bitter tonic, sedative, hypnotic. The decoction from the flower is said to remedy swellings and hardness of the uterus. A cataplasm of the leaf is said to remedy cold tumors. The dried fruit, used for poultices and formentations, is said to remedy painful tumors. The pomade, made from the lupulin, is said to remedy cancerous ulcerations.
