What were the worst home remedies in history

In ancient times, no knowledge supported the possibility of a cure. The only thing clear was life or death. Therefore, in the Middle Ages they began to do this catalog some diseases and their home remedies by pure intuition.

By trial and error, the first extracting pharmacists appeared natural elixirs from plants and insects. Doctors applied weed-based poultices, leeches, and ointments.

It never ceases to awaken conscious smiles some particular cases which, because they are so unusual, seem impossible.

The Spanish newspaper The avant-garde has created a collection that, according to the illustrations on the bottles and labels, is very real.

The most unusual home remedies

Who knows what was going through the mind of a patient who, to cure a swelling of his eyes, hung a man’s eye around his neck? live crabas recommended by Roman scholar Quintus Serenus Sammonicus in his work Liber Medicinaliswritten around 200 AD

Subsequently, between the 12th and 17th centuries, the pharmacies were sold Egyptian mummy dust as healing. A potion of pepper, weeds and witch’s dust which they called mandrake or dragon’s blood (because it was made from the resin of the dragon tree, a red tree from the Canary Islands) was used for cases of epilepsy, catalepsy, forgetfulness and gastric disorders.

For mitigate spleen hypertrophy which caused anemia, they heated a red iron and placed it in a jug of wine that the patient had to drink. There was almost science here. Iron deficiency, the cause of anemia, was neutralized with the particles released by the red-hot iron present in the wine. Cavity? The bacteria must be killed and there is nothing better than burning them with a lit candle in the patient’s mouth.

In France in the 1500s bezoars were used as antidotes against every poison. The bezoar is a ball of hair and hardness that forms in the belly of ruminants. The rarer the bug, the more effective the remedy. At that time the newly discovered highland flame of America traded well.

Between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, the plague left a compendium of desperate resources to treat the sick. In Venice, during the 16th century, a potion of male child urine diluted in water. In London they made flatulence (like stink bombs) to combat emanations from corpses. The English cured warts by applying a mouse cut in half and children who wet the bed were cured by eating rotten mice.

Burns were treated with dung plasters, and in particular those caused by firearms were treated chicken and goose droppings.

The contemporary age has brought scientific advances, but far from them, man has also invented. Lemon juice enemas in 1822, tobacco enemas in 1828, and port wine enemas in 1858 are documented. Smoking was prescribed to combat asthma and bronchitis, and cigarettes were promoted with the slogan “They cure asthma”.

He arsenic It became fashionable in cough syrups, diabetes, rheumatism, syphilis and malaria. And until after the Second World War, cocaine fought overweight, asthma and narcolepsy, and heroin was sold as cough syrup.

From 1918 to 1928 it was bottled radium dissolved in water and was sold under the name Radithor, recommended for lifting spirits and achieving happiness (it was considered a precursor to Viagra). Of course, the product was radioactive and perhaps people found happiness in another life, to which they came early.

Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.