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Monday’s post was an
explanation about taproots. While this
topic does seem a deviation from my normal posts, this topic follows a book I
am reading and an interest I have held for some time: Healing
Secrets of the Native Americans by Porter Shimer.
What did Native
Americans use to battle illnesses that afflict all mankind? What about headaches, infected injuries,
liver ailments? Kidney stones? Bad
breath? Cancer?
With a strong
understanding of the plants and their medicinal advantages, early man were
beyond Old World methods, some of which including bleeding the patient to
remove the “evil humours”.
In 1916, my
grandmother, Amy Nichols, was studying to become a pharmacist. While I could not take her huge volumes of
her studies, I did receive a book on botany that would prepare her to study the
natural healing characteristics of plants.
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The book? Gray’s school and Field Biology by Asa
Gray, published in 1887.
Well, now. This book is as boring and dry as the pages
upon which the information is printed.
It is WHAT was found within the pages of the
tome that surprised me.
That
will be posted…later. It has changed my entire view of Amy Nichols and her
sister Pearl.
A book with a hidden message?
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DeleteOh come on don't leave us hanging! :)
ReplyDeleteOur ancestors were not saints.
DeleteGeez, now we have to wait haha some of the ways they healed may seem odd but I bet they worked, some were just out to lunch though
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DeleteSome were amazingly accurate.
DeleteDear Susan, I read today's posting on taproots and the one you wrote Monday and I'm hooked. I so hope you'll write more about your grandmother and her studies and what you are learning. We so need to "tap" the wisdom of our ancestors.
ReplyDeleteI've been away from blogging for about six weeks and during that time I've missed all you've posted. If there are some postings that you'd especially like me to read, please let me know. Peace.
It is so good to see your name. The upcoming post will focus on the papers that fell out of the book as I fanned the pages.
DeleteAt my other site where I write about my family my next post should be next week "Only miles away..."
Your teasers are captivaing.
ReplyDeleteI hope these won't disappoint.
DeleteThere are lots over very natural products which are healing. We need to know more about them.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and Bear hugs!
It is something I have always wondered about and now want to pursue.
DeleteOooh. Looking forward to the big reveal.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am always tickled by how often scientists/pharmacist suddenly discover that old healing methods WORK.
Oh, the pressure is on...I hope I don't disappoint!
DeleteLooking forward to it
ReplyDeleteWhat is known and unknown about our ancestors never ceases to amaze.
DeleteFound within?
ReplyDeleteBoy am I curious now.
I have a mild interest in herbal remedies, but when I have a headache, I go for the panadol, a migraine gets the codeine treatment. I'm a wimp with pain.
Being a migrainer myself, I run the gamut of both holistic and traditional meds. Lavender, eucalyptus, and peppermint oils help, but it has come down to pain killers.
DeletePeople should think twice about the notes made in the pages of a book, and the notes left behind!
Cliffhanger! Oh, my.
ReplyDeleteNot so much a cliffhanger, but a discovery and enlightenment.
Deletethis is a very interesting subject to me---i am always curious about natural healing :)
ReplyDeleteThere is more to be learned about nature than we know.
DeleteWonderful topic. We've gotten a bit away from the hiking hobby but when we did, I'd occasionally find myself curious about what plants we'd encounter might have medicinal benefits. Peterson publishes a field guide.
ReplyDeleteI research quite a bit here and there for natural remedies to various ills since I don't like using medications. I'd love to know quite a bit more, and sometimes think growing up in an era where it was a part of life to learn these things would have been interesting. But I never could have grown up in all the times that interest me, or lead all of those lives (or could I?)
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Natural healing is very interesting. After dealing with some very bad problems caused by prescription meds I am becoming much more interested in natural and alternative medicine.
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