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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Author: Eric Choong
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