[Jonty30]

Sometimes the cure is worse than the illness.

Drink up.

[Cicero]

MMM, mmm, oxgall.

[loungitude]

straining to purify it

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Straining to purify. Got it.

[BobL]

I don’t care what anyone says, this kind of stuff didn’t just ‘get invented’ by accident.

And heck, if it ends Staff Infections, it’s great in my book.

[Awgie]

Interesting...garlic is still touted for its anti biotic properties.

[Secret Agent Man]

Manuka Honey can kill mrsa, and so can oil of oregano.

[bgill]

We need to get a copy of the book in English.

[Jane Long]

Reminds me of the story/tale about Thieves spices and oil mixture. Named after the thieves who robbed victims of the plague (gold teeth, etc.) and supposedly never caught the disease themselves....due to the spice mixture they protected themselves with.

The story goes that the thieves were eventually caught, but were told they wouldn’t be jailed if they gave up their secret of not getting the illness.

[EternalVigilance]

Another big favorite of the Saxons:

http://www.mariatrebenherbs.com/?pid=55&sid=81:PLANTAIN-RIBWORT

[wintertime]

I would think that any one of these ingredients, if applied topically or directly to the infection, would rupture the cell wall of any staphylococcal bacterium simply due to its PH ( either acidic or alkaline).

Ah!...But the trick is to get it into the blood stream.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Holdeth my mead! Watcheth this thou all!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Allergic to poison ivy ? grab a handful of the weed touch me not and crush it up and wipe on your skin before you go to the woods it will prevent the oil from penetrating your skin you may have to reapply if you sweat a lot but it does work

[snarkpup]

(Modern) English version here:

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest by Cockayne, Thomas Oswald

This book has the original text and the modern English translation side-by-side. The two PDF versions work fine. One is color and the other is black-and-white. Both are searchable.

Enjoy.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You have to wonder what technology we lost from ancient man. They must have discovered some amazing things that have just been lost to the centuries. So many cultures and nations, and so many people experimenting. We can’t even guess the extent of technology and home remedies, and knowledge that ancient man had that is so far lost or took centuries to re-discover.

Just amazing.

[snippy_about_it]

Bflr

[Moltke]

A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections

I know how these old remedies always work: Step 1, remove the eye...

[CommieCutter]

Bfl

[central_va]

Did this manual also contain instruction for "Ye Holy Hand Grenade"?

[trisham]

Very cool.