Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Livin, Svetlana Konnikova [classic fiction .TXT] 📗

He added. “You are really lucky, sir. Are you aware of that? Your body is perfectly healthy, and you have successfully overcome this pathogenic infection—even under the harmful influence of this green mud. You could have contracted a life-threatening blood poisoning or sepsis.”

This sort of prejudice has prevailed for many years. An awful green mold or mud was scorned by doctors even long after Sir Alexander Fleming, a British bacteriologist, discovered the antibiotic qualities of the lysozyme in 1922 and the mold fungus penicillin in 1928. Lysozyme is an enzyme present in human body tissues and it is lethal to certain bacteria. This discovery at first prepared the way for antibiotics.

Later Fleming made a great discovery with penicillin and scientifically proved its valuable antibiotic qualities. Then penicillin was developed as a therapeutic drug by Lord Howard Walter Florey and Sir Ernst Boris Chain. All three scientists received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. Penicillin saved the lives of millions of World War II soldiers. After the war penicillin continued to be a successful healer of pneumonia, wounds, inflammation, and a wide spectrum of other sicknesses, and it brought back to health thousands of men, women, and children everywhere in the world.

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However natural “antibiotics” had been known to folk healers, midwives, and “witches” for centuries.

Be smart! Start your own green clinic right in your house. Probably you already have in your house a good stocked “apothecary” with dried herbs and herbal teas. Now you can add something new and useful to that pharmacy. Begin by buying aloe ( Aloe vera) in a small pot. You can easily find it in a supermarket for about two dollars. Learn how to cherish this noble plant, whose motherland (or origin) is tropical Africa. Aloe vera was known to the Greeks and Romans, who used the gel for wounds. They carefully sliced it along the center of a leaf and peeled back the edges. Then using the blunt edge of a knife, they scraped the gel from the leaf.

Keep your potted aloe plant on the windowsill in the kitchen. Now if someone gets burned while in your house, you can help them with your plant. Prepare your first remedy in natural medicine by making aloe gel. It’s easy and it takes only a few minutes. To soothe minor burns, scalds, or sunburn, cut off a fresh leaf from an Aloe vera plant. Split the leaf open and apply the thick gel to the affected area immediately. Since the safety of such treatment has never been questioned, this is a therapy you can offer to your family or friends as well as a treatment for dry skin, insect bites, and fungal infections. And this is not all you can do. You can offer inhalation too. Use the gel in a steam inhalant for bronchial congestion. Bring to a boil three cups of water. Soak one Aloe vera leaf in the water for five minutes. The water will absorb the medicinal qualities of this plant. Then place your face over the boiling concoction, cover your head with a towel, and breathe in the steam. Use the Greeks’ and Romans’ method of preparation of aloe gel by carefully slicing the leaf along its center and peeling the edges. Then with the blunt edge of a knife, scrap the gel from the leaf. Put the gel into a pot with boiling water. If you find this method too complicated, just use the first one mentioned above because it is really easier to do. Split the aloe open. A thick gel will appear in the center of a leaf. Put a whole split leaf in a pot with boiling water. Let it steep for five minutes. Then cover your head with a towel and breathe as long as you can to relieve you bronchial or nasal congestion.

Do you know that extracts of aloe leaves were used once in some countries on children’s fingers to stop nail-biting!?

Ancient Egyptians treated various inflammatory diseases with mold from barley grain. We now refer to this particular type of mold as tetracycline, an antibiotic with a wide spectrum of action. 12 ^ Mama’s Home Remedies

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In ancient times people knew and understood the medicinal qualities of thousands of plants, trees, flowers, and stones—more so than we do now. Today these substances appear to most to be “exotic” or “preposterous” cures. And