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Ancient Folk Remedies

Sometimes ancient folk remedies worked, sometimes they just make amusing reading:

Eating lettuce or placing a goat's horn under a pillow eased insomnia.

Rubbing a person with a live pig cured epilepsy.

Wearing a ring of lead mixed with mercury prevented headaches.

Anxiety caused by bad dreams was reduced by recounting those dreams to the sun.

Rubbing baby teeth with rabbit brains prevented tooth decay.

Sources: “Folk-medicine” by W.G. Black (1970);
Potions , Remedies , & Old Wives Tales (1969)

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