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(OP) User ID: 67492766  United States03/31/2015 09:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The recipe comes from this book, Bald’s Leechbook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53265608 There's only one copy in existence. Now if the recipe works, what else could possibly work in the book? One cure for headache was to bind a stalk of crosswort to the head with a red kerchief. Chilblains were treated with a mix of eggs, wine, and fennel root. Agrimony was cited as a cure for male impotence - when boiled in milk, it could excite a man who was "insufficiently virile;" when boiled in Welsh beer it would have the opposite effect. The remedy for shingles comprised a potion using the bark of 15 trees: aspen, apple, maple, elder, willow, sallow, myrtle, wych-elm, oak, blackthorn, birch, olive, dogwood, ash, and quickbeam.[7] A remedy for aching feet called for leaves of Elder, Waybroad and Mugwort to be pounded together, applied to the feet, then the feet bound.[8] In another, after offering a ritualistic cure for a horse in pain requiring the words Bless all the works of the lord of lords to be inscribed on the handle of a dagger, the author adds that the pain may have been caused by an elf.[9] In March 2015, the Leechbook made the news when one of its recipes – which included garlic and the bile from a cow's stomach – was tested in the United Kingdom as a potential agent for use against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).[10] [link to en.wikipedia.org] If your dreams don't scare you.. they aren't big enough. |
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(OP) User ID: 67492766 United States03/31/2015 01:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It really saddens me to know we have lost so much. Chinese medicine is said to have been able to diagnose illnesses by the characteristics of wrist pulses - they had over 30 varieties of pulses, each linked to an illness. More recently, before all the technology, leeches were used to stop blood clots in blood vessels. you put the leech over the spot, let them feed, and it would dissolve it. Well known in Germany. now there is a cream made with the ingredient in the leeches saliva that prevents clotting - Hiruduine or similar was the name. 1970s nursing school in Germany. Yes, you are right. It is so sad all the knowledge we have lost only because all of a sudden something more "technically" (more money making) was considered the cure. I am convinced that for everything there is a natural remedy, the combination of the ingredients is of great importance. During my nursing studies up to now I have always enjoyed reading about old cures and folk medicine. Also the different diagnostic methods, there are so many of them. Iris reading is most interesting too. A lot of today we bring onto ourselves, also known as "generation sagrotan" here in germany I am confident we will rediscover. Wow! I forgot Sagrotan! the leech lesson included how they would be shipped - in glass tubes - and how you would prod them out of the tubes with a little glass rod - a Staebchen - and then how they would be disposed of. We never saw the leeches in action though. Hoerensiemal - that was a blast from the past - Sagrotan What is sagraton? If your dreams don't scare you.. they aren't big enough. |
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User ID: 68740291  Germany03/31/2015 05:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: beeches It really saddens me to know we have lost so much. Chinese medicine is said to have been able to diagnose illnesses by the characteristics of wrist pulses - they had over 30 varieties of pulses, each linked to an illness. More recently, before all the technology, leeches were used to stop blood clots in blood vessels. you put the leech over the spot, let them feed, and it would dissolve it. Well known in Germany. now there is a cream made with the ingredient in the leeches saliva that prevents clotting - Hiruduine or similar was the name. 1970s nursing school in Germany. Yes, you are right. It is so sad all the knowledge we have lost only because all of a sudden something more "technically" (more money making) was considered the cure. I am convinced that for everything there is a natural remedy, the combination of the ingredients is of great importance. During my nursing studies up to now I have always enjoyed reading about old cures and folk medicine. Also the different diagnostic methods, there are so many of them. Iris reading is most interesting too. A lot of today we bring onto ourselves, also known as "generation sagrotan" here in germany I am confident we will rediscover. Wow! I forgot Sagrotan! the leech lesson included how they would be shipped - in glass tubes - and how you would prod them out of the tubes with a little glass rod - a Staebchen - and then how they would be disposed of. We never saw the leeches in action though. Hoerensiemal - that was a blast from the past - Sagrotan What is sagraton? Just home from work and trying to catch up  I think Sagrotan is called Lysol in the US"He who people call a fool is not a fool, but he who takes flattery for Truth, is." |
