Live well. Traditional medicine of the world.
Folk remedies herbal medicine.
Live well. The formula: «You are what you eat», attributed to Hippocrates, is fully applicable to the views of the Egyptians on their own health. Sharing the disease on the natural and supernatural, doctors believed that the cause of human diseases associated with poor nutrition.
Based on this logic, it attaches great importance to the purification of the stomach. Incidentally, the invention is attributed to the enema was the ancient Egyptians.
In addition to malnutrition, the contemporaries of the Pharaohs saw the causes of diseases unfavorable climate, as well as the harmful effects of intestinal parasites.
With regard to supernatural causes of disease, then they were responsible for the evil spirits of the dead, that and strive to dwell in the human body. Latest expelled by means of ritual blends, while casting.
Live well.
In the manufacture of medicinal blends ancient Egyptians preferred natural ingredients. The composition of medicines included honey, milk, wheat cereal, beer, vegetable oil, water, sacred sources, onions, pomegranate, aloe vera, grapes, dates, soporific poppy, lotus, papyrus, minerals
(Sulfur, antimony, iron, lead, alabaster, ash, clay, nitrate), and various animal body parts.
Some recipes that are able to decipher the numbering up to 40 components. Medicines produced in the form of tinctures, medicines, ointments, patches, lotions …
The best prevention — is hygiene.
The paradox is that the ancient Egyptians devoted body and span far more attention, than, for example, in medieval Europe.
Religion prescribed cleanliness in the home.
According to Herodotus, the Egyptians carefully watched the body hygiene and the cleanliness of linen clothes they wore. At the same time cut their hair carefully.
The ancient Greeks considered the founders of the Egyptians «preventive» medicine and largely adopted their relation to health.
Mandragora from cancer and depression.
The roots of this plant is sometimes reminiscent of the human figure. Concerning
in ancient times, he attributed magical powers. The ancient Egyptians called the unique perennial grasses Dia Dia.
Generally speaking, the plant is poisonous, but if to withstand the correct dosage, it becomes a drug. Roots, fruits and seeds contain substances
which are depressing the growth of cancer cells (cytotoxins). In small
effective doses of fear, anguish and depression, that is, acts as a psychoactive drug.
The ancient Egyptians used mandrake as a pain reliever and sleep aid for operations.
The sponge soaked with hot juice and mandrake allowed to inhale its vapors patient. After a few breaths, he was fast asleep. After surgery, the patient awakened with a sponge soaked in vinegar.
Mandrake was part of the inhaled fees of various herbs. The medicine from a mixture of herbs was applied on the hot stone, set on top of a clay jar with a hole in the bottom. The hole is inserted a straw and through a pair of inhaled therapeutic.
Magic Nigella sativa.
One of the few truly miraculous medicines, which have reached our time, thanks to the decoding of the papyri.
The seeds of black cumin (Nigella sativa Egyptians called them) called «Magic natural means.»
Today, any excursion to the popular Egyptian resorts necessarily includes shopping wellness oils.
For centuries, black cumin used for health purposes in the form of seeds, powder and oil.
Raw materials are ground and mixed with honey, heated and applied to the sore spot, used in acupuncture and acupressure, simply chew, healing many diseases, brewed as a therapeutic tea.
Black cumin enhances immunity, saturates the body with strength and energy. This is a great tool for diseases of the stomach, heart, eyes, respiratory tract, asthma, bronchitis, liver dysfunction and kidney disease, headache and toothache.
Black cumin oil is used in diseases of the nervous system, disorders of the menstrual cycle, improves hair growth and prevents premature graying of hair loss and even. Moreover, the drug has a natural antidepressant action.
Aloe — not «a hundred years’ history.
Talking about people’s recipes, not to mention a desert plant, which in many countries was called agave, almost every house he rendered honor and respect.
From the leaves of aloe juice squeezed healing and treat it boils, various skin diseases, wounds …oday, aloe juice is used in folk medicine as a remedy for gastritis, gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcers, boils, varicose veins, dermatitis, respiratory diseases, as well as to strengthen the immune system. The juice has an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and anesthetic action.
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