SEC-S16 / W5 | " Ancient Medicine"🌍👩⚕️

My Forefather's Medicine

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Good day to all health lovers in the healthy Steem community. I am enjoying good health and wish you the same. Let us look at how we took care of our health and combated ill health the local way.

👩⚕️ In your country, ¿what type of ancient medicine did they perform?

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The medicine practiced by my forefathers was herbal concoctions. Treating the sick with a variety of lives, roots, tree backs, shrubs and other natural materials was a skill that was passed down along family lines as well guided secrets.
The efficiency of the herbalist spreads by word of mouth. Some are specialized in handling fractures and dislocations. Mixing concoctions that massage and quicken the healing of broken bones.
An area with more women is midwifery. With the skill to touch and tell the orientation of a baby in the womb. Massage and reorient the baby and mix potion to easy delivery.

_{herbal medicine was a common practice}

👩⚕️ ¿Can you give your honest opinion according to your beliefs? (your point of view is valuable to us)

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I personally do not like herbal medicine because it is not consistent and often lack dosage. Depending on the time and place where the leaves and roots are obtained, they may have a deffrences in concentration that is not taken into consideration when you are asked to measure one glass of the potion. The real size of the glass you are to use is not specified.
The medicine has no record of side effects and you can't tell it's content because it is a tread secret and can easily suffer the adverse effects of allergies.

👩⚕️ ¿Can you describe some elements they used at the time? What was the special use of each one?

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Leaves, roots and barks are the source of the active ingredient in the porion. The potion sometimes include spices.
The mixture is put in a corked bottle and the juice is extracted with alcohol or palm wine or water.
A small glass called a short is used to measure the potion once or twice a day.
Some mixtures are applied on the affected area and are for external use only, like in the treatment of Whitlow.

_{mango leaves}

👩⚕️ Design a scenario about ''Ancient medicine''

My forefathers and we today have always been affected by malaria and they handed down some concoctions for treating malaria. It starts with the collection of leaves from neem, pawpaw and mango trees
The combination is boiled with some lemon. the sick is sitted close to the pot and covered with a thick blanket. Look at it from the perspective of a traditional Sauna spa.
The high heat, high humidity works on the respiratory system, the sweeting clears the skin purse and has positive effects on the circulatory system, detoxifying the body in the process. Drinking some of the warm potion attacks the malaria from inside.

_{a blanket over a hot pot of herbs was our traditional sauna}

👩⚕️Conclusion

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My forefathers had the mastery of herbs, the field was so well developed that people in the practice had areas of specialization like herbal midwifery, herbal orthopedic and herbalist that treated general sickness.

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