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Old Fashioned Remedies
Despite progress we always have those
among us who believe the "old fashioned" ways
or products are better. It has to be said that in some
instances they are correct. Sadly, with each passing
generation, some of this old fashioned wisdom disappears.
Progress is so contemporary and so closely
a part of our daily lives that we sometimes fail to
recognize that we, ourselves, may fail to keep up with
what is happening. Things that we would have considered
very modern because we witnessed their creation only
a few years ago may already be "old fashioned"
to high school students.
In the medical world, treatment that
might have been popular for a disease in 1986 may be
completely outmoded in 2006. Even medical discoveries
of the 1990's may be old fashioned today.
However, over the years, and for generation
after generation, a great number of home remedies for
many illnesses have managed to stay alive. They have
been passed down from elders to youngsters in each country
throughout the world. Many of them are strikingly similar
although they may have originated on separate continents
among completely alien peoples.
This area of medicine is commonly called
"folk medicine." Few people will have failed
to have come into contact with this term at one time
or another. Usually folk medicines are the "old
fashioned remedies, the cure that "Grandma used";
the wisdom of the oldster who remembers when "My
old friend Betty would have died if they hadn't used
that old remedy! Yes sir, even the doctor had to admit
it worked."
Periodically there seems to be a revival
in folk medicine. We appear to be now experiencing such
a time as more people are becoming concerned, not only
about the high cost of medicine, but also the increasing
discoveries of side effects.
Basically most folk medicine is closely
associated with herbs, food, oils, minerals and components
found in any household. Techniques and methodology of
folk medicine are especially adaptable to home use.
It is not difficult to understand how
many of these medicines and treatments originated and
why they were popular. Among pioneers and peoples where
doctors were few and far between, or nonexistent, medical
aids were the products of experience and necessity.
People used what they had at hand. Sometimes what they
"had at hand" are still used by our most modern
medical experts.
For instance, over two centuries ago
an English woman herb doctor used a concoction of over
twenty herbs to treat symptoms of dropsical. Dr William
Withering of Shropshire in England became interested
in her success and, after considerable research, concluded
that the foxglove in her treatment was the answer to
her success. Medicine, derived from foxglove, is still
considered an excellent treatment.
Nature has given us many natural remedies,
with little or no side effects. I am sure, with more
research in this area, she would be more than willing
to give up more of her healing remedies.
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