Glucomannan is a sugar made from the root of the konjac plant (Amorphophallus konjac). Glucommanan powder, capsules, and tablets are used as medicine. Glucomannan is used for constipation, weight loss in adults and children, type 2 diabetes, blood sugar control, and lowering cholesterol. In foods, glucomannan is used as a thickener or gelling agent. Glucommanan flour and powder are used in food.
Dionysus; God of the vine, grape harvest, winemaking, wine, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre
Back to Top of Page. The Bacchae, also known as The Bacchantes (Gr: Bakchai), is a late tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, and it is considered one of his best works and one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies.nusually for a Greek drama, the protagonist, Dionysus, is himself a god, and a god who is by his very nature contradictory: he is both the divine god and the mortal Stranger, both a foreigner and a Greek, both inside and outside of the play s action.