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People have always been sick. Our ancestors had knowledge that in certain aspects was superior to or equal to modern medicine. But some of the treatments were strange, to say the least.

1. Teeth were treated with a steaming mixture of goat fat

Already in ancient times, people learned to put dental fillings and make dentures. In Northern Italy, a group of archaeologists found a human tooth with cured caries during excavations. The age of the find is about 14 thousand years.

But some methods are confusing. For example, Avicenna advised treating caries by fumigating the patient with a smoking mixture of goat fat, henbane and onions. And Pliny the Elder believed that if you have a toothache, you need to catch a toad during the full moon, spit in its mouth and say “healing” words.

2. Gave birth while squatting or standing

It is curious that in ancient times, during childbirth, a woman did not take a horizontal position, as is customary today, but squatted or gave birth while standing.

In ancient India they knew how to turn a fetus if the child was in the wrong position, and in African tribes sometimes healers were able to perform a Caesarean section with primitive instruments.

In Egypt, an extract from mandrake fruit was prepared for this purpose. In India and China, incense, cannabis and aconite were used as anesthesia for surgery. It is unknown whether such analgesia was effective.

4. Chronic diseases were treated with exercise and holy water

During the time of Hippocrates (460–370 BC), epilepsy was believed to be caused by divine will. The ancient healer was convinced that this disease occurs due to wind, cold and sun. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that those suffering from this disease were possessed by demons, and the unfortunate were treated with prayers and holy water.

Doctors of Antiquity and the Middle Ages treated diabetes with physical exercises and medicinal herbs, but this was ineffective, and patients died.

Skin diseases such as psoriasis were documented in Antiquity. But they were considered incurable. Therefore, in the Middle Ages, people suffering from this disease would hang a bell so that others would know that they were approaching.

5. Almost all diseases were treated with bloodletting

For many centuries, bloodletting was used to treat all diseases. This method of treatment was popular in India and Arab countries, and the first written mentions date back to Ancient Greece and Egypt.

It was believed that the blood contained a “harmful liquid” that needed to be released, then the person would be healed. In the Middle Ages, barbers practiced bloodletting. This method was popular until the 19th century. And one of the founders of the United States, George Washington, was treated for a sore throat with bloodletting, after which he died.

The level of development of modern medicine is very high. We have at our disposal a huge selection of all kinds of drugs and medicines, unique diagnostic techniques, and high-tech equipment. However, medicine has achieved such development literally in the last half century. Even 60 years ago, the treatment methods used were highly controversial. Often, it was not the disease that killed the patient, but its treatment.

For example, one of the methods of curing stuttering was removing part of the tongue.

Doctors of the 18th and 19th centuries assumed that stuttering in patients was associated with problems in the vocal cords. To eliminate the defect, a hemiglossectomy procedure was recommended. In simple terms, removing a triangular-shaped part of the tongue. The doctors assured that this operation would improve the clarity of pronunciation. The procedure was incredibly dangerous and painful. There was no anesthesia and the patient risked dying from painful shock or blood loss. However, there was no reduction in stuttering at all.

A method of treating migraine is craniotomy.

As historians suggest, drilling a hole in the skull is one of the first surgical operations performed by a person. During pagan times, people assumed that all diseases were caused by evil spirits. Having made a hole in the skull, the shamans expelled spirits from the patient’s body. Even in Neolithic times, migraines, epilepsy, and mental disorders were treated in this way. Modern neurosurgeons also perform craniotomy, but only to provide access to the brain for further manipulation.

Cough in children: prescribe syrup with heroin

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were no health institutions that were responsible for testing new drugs and granting approval for their use. Therefore, anyone could sell medical products containing anything. One of the most shocking drugs of the time was children's cough syrup containing heroin. It was a product of Bayer, a company that made huge money selling aspirin and heroin as cough, cold and pain remedies. However, cases of addiction to cough syrup soon became known, both in children and adults. In the United States, heroin was banned from being prescribed in 1914, and a complete ban on it was imposed in 1924.

Treatment of all diseases: let us bleed

In ancient times, healers believed that blood and other body fluids must be in balance to maintain health. One of the favorite ways to achieve this balance was the procedure of bloodletting and it was prescribed for almost any reason until the end of the 18th century. And the first mentions of bloodletting date back to the 5th century BC. e. and found in the writings of Hippocrates, who advised bleeding the patient to “cleanse” the body.

He said that it works the same way as female menstruation - “everything unnecessary and bad comes out of a woman.” This means that other diseases can be treated in a similar way. Today, bloodletting is considered a pseudoscience and its ineffectiveness has long been proven.

In those days when doctors did not yet understand human anatomy and physiology, they acted as priests or healing magicians. Then people believed that the cause of illnesses was demons that settled in the body or the wrath of the gods sent from heaven. Well, the treatment was appropriate.

For example, in ancient Babylon, a human skull was considered a proven remedy for teeth grinding at night. He had to be put in bed and sleep like that for a whole week. This is because teeth grinding is caused by the ghosts of dead relatives trying to make contact with the sleeping person. By the way, it was necessary not only to sleep next to the skull, but also to hug and kiss it in order to lift the curse.

Treatment of many diseases: we prescribe powder from mummies for oral administration

Doctors of the ancient and not-so-ancient past used cannibalism for treatment. The ancient Romans believed that gladiator's blood could cure seizures, and in the 17th century, King Charles of England drank the medicinal drink "Royal Drops", made from crushed human skulls and alcohol and designed to restore the health and vitality of the monarch.

In the 16th century, another strange medical fashion came to Europe: powder from Egyptian mummies began to be sold as medicine. However, few people knew that in fact these were not mummies, but recently killed slaves. A couple of centuries ago, people believed that mummies powder was an excellent hemostatic agent.

It sounds disgusting, but it's absolutely true: the ancient Romans rinsed their mouths with urine to keep their teeth shiny and white. And we are not talking about fresh urine, but about old, aged urine - it contains a lot of ammonia, which is a bleaching agent. Well, fresh urine was used as an antiseptic in the treatment of wounds, burns and scorpion stings.

Today everyone knows that cigarettes and other tobacco products are very harmful, but in the past people believed that inhaling vapors and smoke could clear the chest and cure coughs, asthma and other respiratory diseases. There were cigarettes “especially for asthmatics” and they were recommended by doctors. The first warning labels about the dangers of smoking appeared on cigarette packs in 1966 in the USA, and before that even children could buy and smoke cigarettes quite safely.

Today, women can decide for themselves whether they want to have a child or not. In this case, there are many different methods of contraception. They used to exist too, but they were very special. For example, in ancient Egypt, dried crocodile droppings were considered the most popular contraceptive. The medicine was very expensive and was considered an effective barrier method of contraception. In fact, it often led to infection.

Syphilis: prescribing a mercury-based medicine

If you accidentally swallow mercury today, call an ambulance immediately. And just 100 years ago, people ingested mercury of their own free will and as prescribed by a doctor. For some reason, mercury fascinated doctors for a long time and they considered it extremely healing. Mercury ointments and rubs, mercury-based creams for healing wounds and treating skin diseases, mercury as a remedy for syphilis and typhoid fever... When patients began treatment, they developed symptoms of mercury poisoning, but all these symptoms were usually attributed to the worsening of the disease.

Schizophrenia: we overdose with insulin and give electric shocks

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder. A schizophrenic has difficulty understanding what is real and what is not, and experiences auditory hallucinations, attacks of paranoia and fantastic delusions. Antipsychotic drugs that can help with this disorder only appeared in the 60s of the 20th century, and before that time there were various methods of “treatment” that today can only be called barbaric. One of these methods was insulin shock therapy.

It was first used in 1927 and was widely used until the 50s. The treatment consisted of regularly injecting the patient with large doses of insulin, which caused him to fall into a coma. While the patient was in a coma, he was subjected to electroshock therapy. Unhappy people.

Mental disorders: doing a lobotomy

A lobotomy is a procedure in which a doctor inserts a sharp instrument, similar to an ice pick, through the patient's eye socket and separates the frontal, parietal, temporal, or occipital lobe of the brain from other areas. This “operation” was very popular in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century and was used to treat the mentally ill. Most often, after a lobotomy, patients became obedient, lethargic, and turned into a “vegetable.”

Hemorrhoids: treated with a hot metal rod

Hemorrhoids are a painful disease that brings great discomfort, but today they can treat it, even in extremely advanced cases. In ancient times, a patient with this disease knew that the treatment he would face was more severe than the disease itself. They treated it by inserting a thin, hot metal rod into the patient's anus. A real execution.

“Hysteria”: we prescribe long-term bed rest

In the 19th century, overly emancipated women who read too much and wanted to achieve the right to participate in elections were labeled “hysterics.” Psychiatric hospitals were overflowing with these unfortunate women who were being treated with "rest." The treatment consisted of prohibiting the woman from getting up for at least two months. She had to lie in bed in one position. It was forbidden to read, draw or talk. At the same time, they were fed for slaughter - since, according to doctors of that time, a well-fed woman has better mental health.

Diagnosis of a patient: taste his urine

Today's doctors have a variety of diagnostic tools at their disposal. And doctors of the past had to rely on their instincts, literally. They worked with what they could see, hear, feel, smell and, yes, taste. And doctors quickly realized that the diabetic patient's urine attracted ants and smelled something sweet. So they began to taste urine to see if a person was suffering from high sugar levels. The optimal diagnostic method.

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Our Ancestors never healed anyone, but restored them. You cannot treat the effect, you need to help understand the cause.

Runny nose
Warm your hands by rubbing against each other and place the middle finger of your right hand on your forehead, and place the remaining 4 fingers in pairs on the wings of your nose for 3-5 minutes. This creates pressure on the active points and the sinuses warm up.

Heart
If a malfunction occurs in the area of ​​the heart - an energy plug, then you need to rub your thumbs with the index fingers of both hands in pairs.

Asthmatic attack
During an asthmatic attack, rub your hands until warm and place them on the patient’s lungs. The temperature of the palms reaches up to 50 degrees during friction and warms up the lungs.

Cold
A glass of warm milk, 1 tsp. honey, 1 tbsp. oils

Toothache
For toothache in the upper jaw, press and release with your middle finger on the area between the eye and ear; for toothache in the lower jaw, press and release on the lower jaw.
You can also tie garlic on your wrist, where the pulse is for a certain time.

For pain in the groin
You need to press under the rib.

Burn
To turn off the nerve endings during a burn, you need to press on the earlobe.

Fatigue
Press the index fingers of the palms of the same hand.

Fainting
Press on the point between the nose and upper lip.

Spinal pain
Using the three pads of the central fingers of the right hand, press and beat on the wrist of the left hand, beating a triple pulse up-middle position-down.

Hernia
Hernia removal ritual.

Perform a ritual before the child goes to bed. Sit opposite the child, if the adult is left-handed, then under the left hand, if right-handed, then under the right hand.
Waist and inguinal hernia. Warm your hands against each other. Stroking your hand clockwise, saying:
"Hernia! Gryz (a diminutive affectionate name for a child, for example, “Olyushka”) you - one, I - two, you - two, I - three, you - three, I - four, you four, I - five, you - five, I - six, you are six, I am seven, you are seven, and I am completely you!”
We read three times during the full moon (5 days of the full moon). If the healer is right-handed, then movements from left to right in the form of a figure eight.

Disc offset
Often, due to incorrect posture and tension, a disc in front of the heart chakra flies out. The nerve is pinched and the load on the heart muscle begins. A person’s heart begins to hurt, but medications can only aggravate the situation, but it is enough to set the disc and the heart will go away. The energy will return normally and the pressure will stabilize (upper and lower).
If a person has interruptions in the functioning of internal organs, first of all it is necessary to look at the spine.
If a child sits askew, then his disc is displaced, in which case it needs to be realigned!

Paralysis
Injury to the lumbar vertebrae leads to disruption of the energy flow between the lower and upper parts, and paralysis of the lower part occurs. This is being treated!!! The spine is stretched (often in a bathhouse) and the vertebrae are realigned, energy exchange is restored. For stabilization, a birch or oak corset is worn during the day.

Dream
You need to sleep on hard. During sleep, a person who has had a fever since the evening completely flies away, giving the body the opportunity to recover. The body falls into a state of suspended animation and therefore in the morning the temperature can be 33-34 degrees. If the Person is also wearing a silver amulet, then silver ions penetrate the body and destroy microbes and bacteria in the blood. If the amulet turns black, then the silver ions are used for treatment. The amulet receives energy from the Cosmos and restores itself.

Natural gymnastics after waking up from sleep
A person should do natural gymnastics:
Stretch after waking up
Head rotation
Shoulder rotations
Go outside barefoot and walk on the ground, we release the burden of negative energies and receive a charge of the energy of Mother Earth
We met the Sun - we received Solar energy (it is very useful to look at the rising Sun, it is better not to look at it during the day). When we meet the Sun, we raise our hands up to meet it.
Rinse with cool water.
For breakfast - hot tea, hot milk or hot fruit drink with honey to wash the intestines.
Then there comes harmony from the receipt of internal thermal energy to the already received thermal energy of the skin.

Ways to protect yourself from dark forces
A universal phrase that has been used in many cases:
“The Good Spirit is on the Earth, the Evil Spirit is under the Earth!”
at the same time, show the goat gesture with both hands (the little finger and index finger stick out, the rest are bent.
The highest protection against dark forces is a gesture in which the little finger, middle and index fingers look up, and the ring finger is connected to the thumb.

Protection from the Evil Eye
The evil eye is a short-term (up to 3 minutes) transmission of negative information. There is an evil eye in front and an evil eye in the back (in the back).
Anyone can cast the evil eye, even in their own family. A child under 12 years old cannot be jinxed. If they say that they have jinxed a child, then this means that they have jinxed the parent (his sins).

In this case, it is necessary to hang a red cloth on the window where the child sleeps. Go to the iron door handle (closed circuit), take a ladle of water and pour it over the handle into a jar. Pour this water over the child from head to toe and wipe it with the mother's hem or father's shirt.
If a person was jinxed or his chakra was pierced, then the negativity was removed from him by twisting. If your hands are burned, twist them around (passes) and into the fire (candle).

Black seeds.
Inside is white, outside is black. Information is passed through and not released. In no case should you buy black seeds, especially from grannies, which they can subconsciously talk about, thinking about their hard life and the bad. You can eat striped and pumpkin seeds.

CONSPIRACY
Transmission of negative information through a carrier object. They can speak chocolates and give them to the child. They need to be thrown away. They try to influence adults primarily with negative information. Comb, handkerchief, etc. don't give it to anyone. You can give away the new excess. Don't buy used items.

Hex
They talk about food and water. Our Ancestors did only good things.

Any slander must come from the heart with pure thoughts and the Soul must be put into any action.

A spell for water (spring water, not boiled). Whisper in one breath:
“Pain-Illness from someone else’s box,
Where I came from, I would go there,
Who sent you missed you
I conjure you, I send you back,
For blue rivers, for high mountains,
Where the Slanders won't find you,
Return to the one who sent, who knew no grief,
Stay with him and don’t come back!”
Drink 1/3 glass of water charmed in this way 3 times a day.

Protective belt.
The Living Help Belt is white among the Slavs, and black among Christians. The Slavs write this curse or hymn to Semarglu in black ink on a white linen ribbon. On the body, this ribbon, 1-1.5 inches wide, with the text facing towards you, is sewn with white threads on yourself during the full moon and worn from full moon to full moon. The moon highlights this text and projects it onto the body. The tape then breaks on itself. This protective belt can cure everything...
For pain in the heart, the hex is applied to a pin, which is pinned horizontally on clothing in the heart area with the point up.
For female and male diseases, a pin is pierced with the point down in the groin area of ​​the underpants.

Spell on Fire (candle).
“Semargl-Svarozhich! Great Ognebozhich! Sleep away the sickness, cleanse the womb of the child of man, of every creature, old and young, You are God’s Delight. Cleansing with fire, opening the power of Souls, save the child of God, may the sickness disappear. We glorify you, we call you to us. Now and ever, and from circle to circle. So be it, so be it, so be it!”

After the Anthem, requests and wishes are whispered onto the candle. The candle burns out completely and is not extinguished.

All the secrets of the subconscious. Encyclopedia of practical esotericism Naumenko Georgy

Traditional ancient methods of healing and treatment

Traditional folk healing practice of healing and treatment exists in rural areas and at present, it exists according to its own special rules and procedures, the customs of antiquity. This is natural, because residents of many villages, small hamlets, remote from rural centers and cities where there are hospitals, do not have the opportunity to constantly receive professional medical care. Their only salvation in case of a sudden illness is their own healing experience and turning to healers. Another reason why this tradition is preserved is the belief that some diseases are unknown to doctors: the evil eye, damage, hair loss, black face, stubble, etc. Often rural residents are treated to the same extent by both doctors and healers: first they go to the doctor and, if the medicine does not help, they go to the healer. Traditional healing practice is usually transmitted orally and exists in parallel, next to the generally accepted medical practice in the world.

Healing is not a craft. This is a gift. It is as if it descends to a person from above. Only those who 100% believe that they have miraculous healing powers become them, and there is not an iota of doubt about it. Such power of faith in one’s extraordinary healing capabilities rarely arises in the minds of an ordinary person, but more so in a person who has experienced trauma, illness, or strong experiences; or who, as it seems to him, has received some kind of psychic suggestion (from higher powers); and, moreover, having a disposition and desire for this craft. Such a person concentrates his thoughts on one goal, his consciousness leads to the invocation of a real desire - the unity of conscious and subconscious will, which form the basis of the emerging forces. The attitude is important - the desire to help, to do good.

As stated in the scientific literature: “In folk life, for a few sorcerers, warlocks, and experts in black magic in villages, there were dozens of healers and hundreds of simply grandmothers “with nobility,” bringing people healing, goodness, sometimes just hope for deliverance from misfortune, illness, trouble , provision of “first medical aid”.

The healer has his own assistants - this is a special ritual of his magical rites and actions: preparing the patient, symbolic actions, prayers, spells, conspiracies, suggestion, ointments and herbs, water, wax, fire - everything that can increase the awe of what is happening and faith in success.

The healer has preserved the ancient formulas of pagan spells, the sacred words of conspiracies that have come down to us from the depths of centuries. Spell words were included in folk medicine books and herbal books, the manuscripts of which were carefully preserved and passed down from generation to generation only to a select few. There are conspiracies for all occasions; and the healer has the professional ability to understand their application to diseases. Only real healers and healers, guessing women, healers, witches, whisperers and sorcerers own them. Particular respect for the “experts” - clairvoyants who are able to see in water, like a mirror, the disease that has struck a person, or the one who has spoiled the person, that is, caused damage.

Healers are capable of everything, know everything, are omnipotent and contain all the ways to preserve health and all the benefits for different cases: from troubles, evils, misfortunes. And although their work is often attributed to supernatural power, healers are ordinary people, possessing only special knowledge and disposition to healing activities. As soon as something happens, they run to a healer or a fortune teller, and one or the other will charm or perform magic. It was not for nothing that in ancient times a healer was called a magician. Grandma will sort everything out, whisper, teach. Indeed, in everyday peasant life, unexpected situations, illnesses and injuries often occurred that required immediate contact with these grandmother-healers. You also often have to rely on the experience of elders in the family, who have learned a thing or two in their lifetime.

Bruises and cuts, toothache and lumbar pain “from abuse”, sticky warts or styes on the eye, painful burns and much more - for each of these “everyday” diseases, ailments, physical defects there have long been their own remedies. These remedies consist of herbs and potions, actions and manipulations with water and wax, and, almost certainly, “words,” that is, spells. Conspiracies are also used in more severe cases, for example, when suffering from fever, snake bites or rabid dog bites.

There are “personified” diseases or conditions that are carriers of evil: the twelve sister fevers, scrofula, nocturnal and night owls, crybabies, melancholy, dryness. There are also obvious diseases, designated in detail - boils, barley, clubroot, hair.

Diseases, in the popular concept, are divided into grief, black sickness, falling sickness, sickness, sickness, ghost, evil eye, lesson, flash, itching, chills, hiccups. It is believed that many diseases come from the corruption of unkind people. Damage - causing harm from malicious intent or malice.

Grief is a heart disease. Black sickness - cholera or syphilis. Sickness is a naturally occurring disease. The evil eye (or lesson, prizor, prikos) - comes from the unfriendly, envious gaze of a stranger. Lesson (or wall) means dryness, emaciation. Ozeva - also comes from a thin, unkind eye, as well as from words spoken by someone in their hearts about another, with annoyance, with malicious envy. Slander - also caused by any words of an envious stranger, spoken although from a good heart and even affectionate, but not in a good hour. A flash is an instant fright.

Indisputable were and remain such healing remedies as massage, reduction of dislocations, baths, and the skill of “ruling” and “getting along” with children and adults, so invaluable among the people. The rich arsenal of traditional medicine in the field of medicinal herbs is invaluable. Constant contact with nature, an attitude towards it that was both reverent and economic, contributed to the knowledge of many plants. We find their detailed love descriptions in the ancient “Herbalists”. Healers who treated the sick with herbs and roots were called “herbalists.” “We go for medicine,” say elderly rural women. Plantain and yarrow, mint and chamomile, coltsfoot and St. John's wort are kept in every home where they know a lot about herbs. And, finally, the power of suggestion, the psychological influence of the healer on the patient, is undeniable, which has a direct bearing on the “words” themselves, that is, conspiracies, or rather, their pronunciation.

There is numerous evidence that healers successfully cured mental illnesses. Conspiracies against bleeding, various kinds of pain, snake bites, using bandages, rubbing in herbal ointments and the like have always been successfully used. Hysteria, epilepsy, insanity, impotence, children's, women's and various types of protracted illnesses - all these diseases, the cause of which, according to the concepts of the villager, is damage, tricks, the evil eye, and which quickly and quickly, as the patient needs, are not able to cured by doctors were the concerns of healers.

There is a kind of specialization of healers. Among such specialists there are special “experts” in internal diseases who give patients various herbs to drink - dry St. John’s wort, mint, chamomile, currant and birch buds, etc.; substances such as tar, turpentine, vitriol, “bel” (sublimate), or fumigating patients with cinnabar and herbs. These same “experts” often stop bleeding by covering the wounds with soot, ash, tobacco, crushed sugar, the devil’s finger, or treat abscesses by applying to them their own made patches of red wax and sulfur, flour with honey, cottage cheese with dough, etc. .

There is witchcraft diagnosis and therapy. Healer remedies and techniques are strictly and sometimes strikingly dependent on the views on diseases that people have about them: the therapy of healers is built on the folk theory of diseases and is only a consequence and conclusion from it.

Just as for a doctor the first task is to determine the patient’s illness, so sometimes a healer, when contacting him, begins the matter by performing an examination and making his own medicine diagnosis: illness from fear, from bad wind, from an eye or damage. To determine the nature of the disease, the healer often makes fortunes, looks into the water, in the mirror, drowns the wax, lays out cards, etc. With such a diagnosis, yawning is sometimes of great importance: if the healer yawns a lot when pronouncing a spell, it means that the patient has “great lessons” . Finding out who jinxed it is relatively easy. It is much more difficult for a healer to understand and determine the type of disease. And many of these diseases are more difficult to treat, and their treatment varies. Rural doctors say: “When there is an evil eye, it’s good, but if it’s bad luck, it’s damage. Then it is much more difficult to treat. The evil eye only needs to be reprimanded for three dawns, but the evil eye and the evil eye must be reprimanded for as many as twelve dawns.”

Scientists define a conspiracy as a verbal magical formula that is necessary and sufficient to influence the surrounding world, its phenomena and objects in order to cause the desired result. They believe that the most ancient conspiracies were short formulas explaining magical actions - “enchantments”. Conspiracies were passed down from generation to generation, both orally and in writing - copied from sheet to sheet, from notebook to notebook. In oral history, the storage and transmission of spells formed an integral part of the tradition. They were usually passed down only from eldest to youngest, often through relatives. “White” conspiracies and amulets are always voluntary, upon request and willingly. The carriers of “black magic” – sorcerers – had to “get rid” of their knowledge before death and often passed it on by force or deception.

Spells, or hexes, conspiracies and approaches, are to the authorities, for love (girls, for the separation of a married woman, for the love of everyone), for healing from wounds, illnesses and diseases (from a lesson, the evil eye, from wounds and boils, from uncleanness, from bleeding, bleeding, ghost, from a burn, from a hernia, from drunkenness, from bruises, from parables, from arrows, from a midnight owl, from a toothache), to receive respect, happiness, self-interest.

I know about the practice of folk healing, about the healing art of healers and the magic of sorcerers first-hand, not from literature, but from my many years of experience in contact with this phenomenon, as an ethnographer and collector of folklore. Over more than thirty years of work, I have visited many protected corners of Russia that have still preserved their ancient way of life, and on hundreds of ethnographic expeditions. I observed with my own eyes the work of healers, how healing rituals take place, incantations and spells are performed, medicinal potions and herbs are prepared. Some of the collected materials were included in the book “Ethnography of Childhood.” Most materials on this topic have not yet been published. And this is where my acquaintance with folk healing began.

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From the book Himavat author Roerich Nikolai Konstantinovich

Ancient Medicines Dr. Bernard Reed is busy with extremely useful work. From yellowed, forgotten and often ridiculed manuscripts of Chinese pharmacopoeias, he rediscovers for the scientific world many facts that are currently attracting the attention of modern science. Us

From the book Legends of Asia (collection) author Roerich Nikolai Konstantinovich

Ancient Medicines Dr. Bernard Reed is doing good work. From the yellowed, forgotten and often ridiculed sheets of the old Chinese pharmacopoeias, he rediscovers for the scientific world many considerations that deserve great attention of modern science. The works are especially precious to us

Since time immemorial, healers and provincial people have gotten rid of this nasty thing by rubbing lichen with sultanas or raisins cut in half. This kind of lichen goes away immediately.

Folk remedy for lichen
Pour flammable sulfur into wooden oil (used for lamps) to form a thick mixture. Spread a thick layer of the mixture on a clean body and do not wash for three days. If after three days it turns out that traces of lichen remain, lubricate it again.

Remedy for warts
One prominent American doctor, earning tens of thousands of dollars a year, said that it is the most rational and correct. This remedy is acetic acid.
Every evening, before going to bed, you need to drop - always with an eye dropper - one drop on each wart, being extremely careful. It is not recommended to use more than one drop: The acid is very caustic. In a few days the warts will disappear.

True healer's remedies for warts and moles
   A. Pull out the stem of the mown ear of bread by the roots. Poke the tip of the straw into the damp soil several times, root up. In a few days, when the straw rots, the warts will disappear without a trace.
   B. If there is no stem with roots, healers recommend the following method. Take a small potato, cut it in half, throw away one half (superstitious healers say that you should throw it over your head back), and rub the other half on all the warts (the cut side). Immediately bury this part of the potato in the ground in a dry place so that it dries out there and does not start to grow. After a few days, when the potatoes dry, the warts will disappear.

Acne remedy
Take native (lumpy) sulfur (cream-colored powder) on the tip of a knife, put it on your tongue and wash it down with warm water. Take in the morning, on an empty stomach. You can drink it every day until the acne disappears completely. This remedy is considered fast and reliable.

Folk remedy for yellow and gray spots on the face
Prepare a solution of three parts fresh, unpasteurized milk and one part full-strength pure wine alcohol. Rub this mixture into your face at night. You can also take half a glass of hydrogen peroxide and mix it with two drops of ammonia. If the disease is not of internal origin, healers recommend rubbing warm Provençal oil in the evening before bed.

Natural remedy for sunburn and strong winds
The sun and wind can greatly disfigure the face if you do not apply any ointment. Here is the best folk remedy that is completely harmless to the skin.
Take a little raw yolk from a fresh chicken egg in your palm and generously lubricate your face. When the yolk dries, it should be washed off with soap and water. The result is always great.

Folk remedy for softening facial skin
People call this remedy cucumber water.
After cutting the cucumbers into slices, put them in a bottle and fill them with good purified vodka or diluted pharmaceutical alcohol. Leave it in the sun for two weeks. After this, the cucumber water is ready. Use it undiluted, soaking a towel in it and wiping your face. Cucumber water is considered the best skin softener.

Russian folk remedy for eczema and many other skin diseases
Take a dozen eggs, hard boil them, remove the yolks. Putting the yolk on a knitting needle or fork or placing it on a metal mesh, hold the candles over the fire. The heated yolk will produce drops of juice, which must be collected in a bowl. As soon as you notice that the drop on the yolk is increasing, you need to substitute the dishes. If it drips, heat the yolk again. It takes a lot of time to melt the right amount of “precious” ointment.
The number of eggs in the recipe - 12 - is taken arbitrarily. It is necessary to take into account which area of ​​the skin is affected by eczema or other skin disease. Sometimes two eggs are enough, and other times a whole hundred or even more are required. This “oil” should be thickly lubricated with gauze or a cloth and applied to the affected area. Change occasionally, no more than once a day, but preferably once every two days.
If you need to work, you can tie it, but so that the bandage does not absorb the precious product - put wax paper or something like that. Continue treatment until complete recovery.

Folk remedy for boils (boils)
Bake a medium-sized onion, cut it in half and place one of the halves on the boil while the onion is hot; apply a bandage. Change the hot onion dressing every four hours.

Folk method for treating gangrene and abscesses
Do readers know that doctors of Russian folk medicine saved tens and tens of thousands of arms and legs, hundreds and hundreds of fingers from amputation due to gangrene?
Doctors for gangrene almost always resort to surgical treatment methods. Doctors of Russian folk medicine use the following remedy.
Take freshly baked black bread, preferably rye, and, after adding plenty of salt to it, chew it thoroughly. The sore spot is covered with a thick layer of chewed bread and bandaged. This remedy is true and unusually strong.
Several Russian doctors of official medicine tried... to improve this “wild” method of folk healers, adding to black bread and salt some of the apothecary wisdom, which, in their opinion, should have replaced chewing. All these attempts came to nothing. When chewed, bread and salt are mixed with saliva, and the latter apparently plays an important role in the treatment of gangrene and abscesses.
Although the described folk remedy is strong and reliable, in most cases you should consult a doctor, because gangrene is a very serious disease.
One lady developed a malignant abscess on her finger, which soon turned into gangrene. The finger began to turn black, and the doctor advised it to be amputated. The operation was scheduled for two days later. The unfortunate lady, with tears in her eyes, began calling everyone she knew. Luckily for her, one of them knew a folk remedy for gangrene, and the lady immediately began treatment. On the day of the operation, the doctor sterilized and boiled all surgical supplies. Having removed the bandage from the patient’s finger, the doctor was amazed at the wonderful metamorphosis: the patient’s finger was white instead of black. Declaring that the operation was completely unnecessary, the doctor became interested in the method of treatment. The lady willingly told him about the chewed black bread.

Siberian healer's remedy for calluses
Soak onion skins in vinegar for two weeks. Apply to calluses and tie overnight. Repeat several times and the calluses will disappear.

Remedy for sweating and bad foot odor
Grind boric acid crystals into powder. Every morning, sprinkle it generously on your feet, especially between the toes and soles. Every evening, wash off the powder from your feet with water, the temperature of which should not exceed 35-40°C. During the first week of treatment, clean stockings should be worn every morning. This remedy is widely used in Central Russia and the Urals. Often, foul foot odor disappears after two weeks of treatment.