Some doctors may smile or scoff when reading about such simple natural remedies. However, they should not forget that these remedies have been known and used for hundreds of years and have outlasted many a modern chemical drug. These natural treatments are always near at hand and invariably provide help when other remedies fail. They will continue to do so long after many of the present-day products of the pharmaceutical industry have been discarded and forgotten.

No less interesting is the story I heard from a Berlin doctor who was attached to the famous hospital ‘Charite’. A person suffering from haemophilia had to have a minor operation and the doctors were worried about stopping the bleeding. A peasant who was a patient in the hospital happened to hear of their anxiety and when one of the doctors was making his rounds, he told him in his blunt rustic way that he knew of something that would stop the bleeding and was better than all the strong-smelling ointments in the hospital.

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