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Re: (TFT) Healthful Herbs
Very interesting. If you can find copies of Primitive Archery magazine, they
used to have articles on this very subject in each issue. I recall that oak
saplings were dried and crushed to make a powder. The powder would be put
into an open wound. The high tannin content of the powder has some kind of
antiseptic affect but the primary action was that the powder caused the
blood vessels to constrict and it stopped bleeding. We all know of the
sugar packs and how they've been successfully used to treat infections where
antibiotics don't work. The Egyptians put honey in wounds because the sugar
content was lethal to most bacteria. Make a tea from the inner bark of a
cottonwood tree for vitamin C supplement.
I've always been facsinated by primitive and ancient medicine especially in
a military setting. How did the soldiers get through so many battles or
campaigns? It can't be that they weren't injured, right? Their medicince for
such traumas must have been very effective. I recall that there was a plant
in the ancient world that was a miracle cure; the name escapes me. It grew
in just one part of the Mediterranean/Agean/North Africa (again, I can't
recall). The ancients prized it so highly they tried to transplant it to
other regions but they could never get it to grow anywhere else. I think we
have a drawing of the plant too but it has never been identified in modern
times.
Older and more forgetful,
Aidan
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Subject: (TFT) Healthful Herbs
Wild Plants You Can Eat -Karl Knutsen
Wild Edible Plants Of the Western U.S. -Don Kirk
Stalking the Healthful Herbs -Gibbons
How To Stay Alive In the Woods -Angier
The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal -David Hoffmann
Earth Medicine - Earth Foods -Michael Weiner
Various Farmers Almanac articles
Notes from a bunch of History Channel, Discovery, Nova, etc. programes.
Physicker anybody?
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