As more pleasant, less “messy” cures and commercial medicines came on the market, use of the poultice went down in popularity. This can be an uncomfortable treatment (from the heat it generates), but it was believed that it knocked sense back into the body and did a good job drawing ...
Misconceptions about poison ivy have led desperate sufferers to adopt some pretty bizarre cures. Here are some tried-and-true home remedies that can be helpful in treating poison ivy rash. But the best way to foil the itch is by minding the old saying, “Leaves of three, let it be.” ...
asking Cajun elders about their home remedies. They have numerous unusual cures handed down for the more than two centuries they've lived in Louisiana—swallowing alligator oil or drinking dried chicken gizzard-skin tea, for example—but manure tea is not in the old-time Cajun medicine chest. ...
“The very thought of the dentist’s cures you. Why don’t you go in at once to Mr. Critchlow and have it out—like a man?” Mr. Critchlow extracted teeth, and his shop sign said “Bone-setter and chemist.” But Mr. Povey had his views. “I make no account of Mr. ...
Old wives' tales are like that. They may have been useful at one time and may have some truth to them -- but it's probably gotten garbled in translation from one generation to the next. After all, many of these "old wives" were midwives and healers who were valued medical practitioners...
first wrote about nearly a decade ago called “Esogetic Colorpuncture“? You might recall that this particular form of woo involved shining colored lights on acupuncture points “in order to energize powerful healing impulses in our physical and energy bodies,” or, as I quoted at t...
Miracle cures: dramatic new scientific discoveries revealing the healing powers of herbs, vitamins, and other natural remedies. HarperCollins Pub., 1998. 16. Philpott, WH, et al. Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient Connection, Keats Pub., 1980. 17. Journal of the American Medical Association ...
She was cultured and elegant and she loved opera. Her poodle’s name was Papageno. Julie had had a mysterious illness all her life. When she was young it was thought to be a form of tuberculosis and she spent time in the mountains in Switzerland taking rest cures in sanitariums. By ...
when possible to redress our grievances by legal remedies; but the time has now arrived, when the Law has ceased to be a protection to our lives and property a mob at Nauvoo under a city ordinance, has violated the highest privilege in our Government, and to seek redress in the ordinary...