Автор: John Heinerman
Название: Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs
Издательство: Parker Publishing Company; 14th edition
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Размер: 39.87 MB
Язык: Английский
Для сайта: predskazat-sudbu.ru
I think all of us have been exposed to natural remedies at one time or another in our lives. The mustard plaster, the chicken soup, June bug juice for warts and the various cough remedies that your grandmother or auntie put together from some kitchen magic. Back in the '20s and '30s my father, a pediatrician, had a list of remedies for the variety of infections and conditions he was called upon to treat. One of his favorites was the com starch enema. I can still hear him telling mothers over the phone how to cook up the corn starch... "until it clears. Then let it cool, and then let it run in and out of the child." It was to give fluid to the dehydrated, reduce the temperature in the feverish and soothe the lower bowel hit by the intestinal flu. I'm sure it gave the parents something to do, so they felt useful. As the '30s and '40s advanced, he was attracted, really fascinated, with the new pharmaceutical "science."
The promise of medicine - actually of the pharmaceutical industry - was that there would soon be a drug for every disease. The doctor was to be the diagnostic expert; once the condition was named, the remedy was easily found by looking in the index. The detective work was fun, the results were usually predictable and the patients were gratified because they got well so rapidly.
But no one even considered, or remembered to consider, those time-honored, natural, herbal, diet ways of getting well until people began to notice the nasty side effects and uncomfortable allergies from these "miracle" drugs.
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