(1 April 2015, 10:01)Barneyboy Wrote: TTH its true mate ,you have meet me am I the sort of guy that would make this up ?
I believe you mate, and I don't doubt some traditional medicine works, after all we now know about Willow bark and Aspirin, Garlic and its antiseptic qualities etc. Unfortunately along with the good there are countless "Old Wives" tales that are just wrong, and more importantly dangerous. Here are a few examples, I'm sure we don't want to do.
COMMON SICKNESSES AND CURES
RINGWORM
Wash har in a males urine.
PLAGUE
Eat powdered emeralds, bathing in human urine, wearing of excrement, placing dead animals in home, use of leeches or drinking molten gold.
SKIN DISEASE
Cover sore spot with the skin of a wolf.
LOSS OF MEMORY
Eat ginger.
INSOMNIA
Eat treacle.
BRUISES
Apply a plaster of bacon fat & flour.
FAINTING
Breathe the smoke of burnt feathers.
BLOCKED NOSE
Stuff mustard & onion up the nose
INTERNAL BLEEDING
Wear a dried toad in a bag around the neck
GOUT
Apply a plaster of goats droppings mixed with rosemary, herbs & honey
KIDNEY STONES
Apply a hot plaster smeared with honey and pigeon poo.
TOOTHACHE
Get a candle and burn it close to the tooth. The worms that are gnawing the tooth will fall into a cup of water held by the mouth.
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