{"id":7389,"date":"2018-07-26T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:35:07","slug":"the-strange-world-of-traditional-folk-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/the-strange-world-of-traditional-folk-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Everything That Goes \u201cQuack\u201d Is a Duck!: The Strange World of Traditional Folk Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have all heard older folks tell what life was like back then, you know, the \u201cgood ole days.\u201d I am at the age now that our grandchildren ask if I had ketchup when I was a kid. What we know about foods and medicines and treatments has certainly changed with each generation. I can think of two things today that I am especially thankful for. The first is that I now eat saut\u00e9ed onions and garlic instead of wearing them around my neck. Some of you are saying, \u201cWhat?\u201d Yes, when I had a cold, my mother used to make poultices from all kinds of vegetables and I would wear them to bed at night. Most kids got to sleep with their teddy bears, I got onions and garlic. At least I can\u2019t recall ever having a problem with werewolves or vampires attacking at night. I also never had a problem with girls wanting to talk to me in kindergarten.<\/p>\n

It is possible that garlic alone has more superstitions connected with it than any other food. I have often entered homes in Asia where garlic is hung over doors and windows to keep evil spirits out.\u00a0 Garlic bulbs were found around the tomb of King Tut when it was excavated.\u00a0 Koreans used to eat pickled garlic before they passed through a mountain pass because they believed the Tigers hated it. In Mohammed\u2019s writings, he describes the feet of the Devil as he was cast out of the Garden of Eden. Where his left foot touched the earth, garlic sprang up, while onions emerged from the footprint of his right foot.\u00a0 I wonder if my mom would have put those things around my neck if she had known that? Ancient Greeks would put garlic on a pile of stones to cause evil spirits to lose their way. Roman armies were fed garlic because they believed it gave them courage. Ancient European folklore advised that garlic should be worn or rubbed on chimneys and keyholes. Why, yep, you guessed it, vampires! Did you know that dreaming about garlic is good luck and means you will discover hidden secrets?\u00a0 And the list goes on.<\/p>\n

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Over the years I have found folklore about foods and treatments for whatever ails us to be a fascinating story.\u00a0 So, let me share some of what I have come across or discovered. Each of these is an actual treatment or promised cure that was practiced.\u00a0 After each folk practice or medicine, I will add my own thoughts.<\/p>\n

Before I start, some of you remember that I said I was especially thankful for two things today.\u00a0 The second one is latex paint.\u00a0 When I was four and living in Honolulu<\/a> with my parents I managed to get into a can of lead-based, bright green, enamel paint. My mother said I was totally covered from head to foot with the thick, sticky, stinky slop. It was in my eyes, nose, mouth, underwear, yes, everywhere.\u00a0 Even before Kermit the frog I learned it ain\u2019t easy being green.\u00a0 Today, enamel paint is mostly water-based and no lead can be found in it.\u00a0 But that was not the case in 1950.\u00a0 My mother found all the paint thinner she could get and put it in our bathtub and I took a long painful bath in mineral spirits.\u00a0 It was in my eyes, mouth, ears, and, gulp, my underwear.\u00a0 It burned my skin and left me looking like a sobbing, red tomato.\u00a0 I am glad I can\u2019t remember it but my mother sure could.\u00a0 Actually, since that day, I can\u2019t remember a lot of things. Hurray for easy-clean-up latex paints.<\/p>\n

\"adWhen you read the following folk cures, you can imagine that a lot of people have their own things they are thankful for today.<\/p>\n

Now, it is time to find our local snake oil salesman.\u00a0 Remember, these are actual folk remedies, mostly from the 1800\u2019s, found in journals and local oral and written traditions. (Each cure will be followed by <\/em>My thoughts).<\/em><\/p>\n

ARTHRITIS<\/h4>\n

A cure for arthritis is to carry a potato around in your pocket.\u00a0\u00a0 (<\/em>You can tell that this is not scientific because it doesn\u2019t tell which pocket). <\/em><\/p>\n

TO GROW A BEARD<\/h4>\n

The liquid obtained from boiling old boots has been used to promote the growth of hair on the face of young men. (This practice alone may do more to promote moral abstinence than all current forms of education).<\/em><\/p>\n

NOSEBLEED<\/h4>\n

Stuff a spider\u2019s web into your nose.\u00a0 (If you include the spider you don\u2019t have to keep making new applications).<\/em><\/p>\n

BOILS AND INFECTIONS<\/h4>\n

Cow dung has been used as a poultice for boils. (Why am I glad my mother used onions and garlic?).<\/em><\/p>\n

PREVENTING GRAY HAIR<\/h4>\n

While standing on your head, massage your scalp. (I don\u2019t think an Olympic gymnast could do this.\u00a0 Maybe this is why so many have gray hair).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"adDIPHTHERIA<\/h4>\n

A Nova Scotia<\/a> remedy was to get a live trout, put it down the throat, pull it out and throw it back in the pond. (Someone, please help me with this one. How do you stuff a live trout down someone\u2019s throat?\u00a0 How would you even convince someone to let you try it? Excuse me, sir, but I can help your pain. Let me take this four-pound, spiny, wiggling, angry fish and cram it down your throat and you will be cured)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

RHEUMATISM<\/h4>\n

One large thimble of gunpowder, mix in a spoonful of milk.\u00a0 After taking that. Drink a good half-pint of milk separately. Then go to bed with a lot of warm blankets and sweat a lot.\u00a0(Do you realize that when this remedy was used, most families had lanterns with open flames near their beds? After I drank gunpower, I think the last thing I would want to do was try to blow out the flame in the lamp).<\/em><\/p>\n

EARACHE<\/h4>\n

Boil an onion, when it is hot remove the heart and place it in the ear.\u00a0 (Now that we got the fish out of your throat we have this boiling onion we want to cram into your ear. It will get your mind off your bleeding throat).<\/em><\/p>\n

A HEADACHE<\/h4>\n

Pick up a knife and make a cross in front of you with it. Then throw the knife on the floor! (Wait a minute, I thought that was how you cast demons out of your sofa!).<\/em><\/p>\n

BRONCHITIS<\/h4>\n

Wear the sock you wore all day around your neck at night to bed, with the foot part near the throat. (What if you still have a cough in the morning?\u00a0 Can you imagine showing up at work that day for a business meeting with an old stinky sock around your neck?).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Machine for curing nervous diseases<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HICCUPS<\/h4>\n

Put your head between your legs and look at the sun. (Sorry to keep interrupting and acting dumb. I am not a very flexible person but even if I got into that position with my head looking up and the sun in my eyes, I would be scared I might have acid reflux and burn off my trousers?\u00a0 Are hiccups really that threatening?).<\/em><\/p>\n

A SORE THROAT<\/h4>\n

Eat molasses candy made with a small amount of kerosene oil.\u00a0 Some people just boiled molasses and kerosene oil (or Minard\u2019s Liniment) and took a couple of spoonfuls every few hours.\u00a0 (Why do folk remedies not mention life expectancy?\u00a0 Now how long will a person live that drinks molasses and kerosene?).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ad<\/p>\n

A COUGH<\/h4>\n

In the early 1900\u2019s the Bayer Corporation used to sell bottles of Heroin as a cough suppressant for children. (The label on the bottle said \u201cHeroin.\u201d) Scientists believed that it was a non-addictive alternative to morphine, from which it was synthesized, but of course, that was soon proven wrong. In 1913, as hospitals teemed with patients addicted to the \u2018medicine,\u2019 Bayer decided to stop making it. (No comment, nothing funny in this story).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ad<\/p>\n

WARTS (Three remedies)<\/h4>\n

Rub pork grease on your warts and then scrape it off and give it to a dog.\u00a0 (Actually, my neighbor has a dog I would like to try this with).<\/em><\/p>\n

Put butter on the wart and have a cat lick it. (Make sure the dog watches since he is still mad).<\/em><\/p>\n

Apply snail slime to warts. (Sorry, I am unclear about this one. Do you do this before or after the dog licks it?).<\/em><\/p>\n

Idea!<\/strong> Wouldn\u2019t it be quicker just to combine some of these to save time? Make sure you have the old sock tied around your neck and Crush a snail and smear it all over your face while you throw your knife at the floor, and while the dogs and cats are sucking off your warts drink kerosene and light yourself on fire; then do the old stop, drop and roll while cramming a trout back and forth down your throat. Quickly smush cow dung in your ears and swing your flaming head between your legs and stare at the sun. That should just about cure everything. You will never worry about your warts or your breath again, or ever getting a date.<\/p>\n

The next few stories will be about the strangest foods that people eat around the world.\u00a0 I have actually eaten some things that made me want to stuff a live trout down my throat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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