Ancient Medical Techniques by Loretta Rojas Zurita

A good treatment for warts

ssuarez60 — 2021-07-13 19:40:54 UTC

The white sap from this common weed, also known as petty spurge, was described by Nicolas Culpeper's Complete Herbalist (1826) as "a good treatment for warts".

Don't try this at home, however, as its also an irritant.

Milkweed made its way from its native Europe to Australia, where biochemist Dr Jim Aylward had it in his garden.

"My mum grew it for 20 years and swore by it," he says.

"She always told me to put it on my skin to help sunspots."

In 1997, Dr Aylward isolated its active ingredient, ingenol mebutate, which he discovered was toxic to rapidly replicating human tissue.

And recent clinical trials of Picato, a gel derived from milkweed sap, suggest it is effective at stopping lesions turning into skin cancer.

The ancient medical techniques of the wars

imoreno59 — 2021-07-13 19:41:01 UTC

In the war, there were some doctors who treated skull ruptures whit gold plaques, actually, we don't use that metod.

Acupuncture: Angel Del Castillo

asdelcastillo2 — 2021-07-13 19:41:12 UTC

Acupuncture is an ancient therapy originating in China, which consists of the application of needles to specific points on the body to treat diseases and promote health.

Ancient medical thecnique with mercury

cinfantas1 — 2021-07-13 19:42:19 UTC

Today mercury is know as a toxic sustance but many years ago it was used to treat syphilis and was also used as a antiseptic.

Willow bark.

gcastanedab — 2021-07-13 19:42:55 UTC

This bark used to be chewed to combat fever, pain, and inflammation

Babylonian Skull Cure

jchambi1 — 2021-07-13 19:43:09 UTC

Babylonian Skull Cure is that if you have problems sleeping at night the doctors recommended you to sleep with a skeleton and if it did not work kiss and hug it at night and the problem would supposedly be solved.

Leech Therapy

asolano13 — 2021-07-13 19:43:20 UTC

Leeches are used to stimulate blood circulation after skin grafts and reconstructive surgery.
They serve as a bridge until the body can re-establish vascular connections.

Trepanation of the skull

msantos102 — 2021-07-13 19:44:01 UTC

there are indications that it was used as a purely medicinal technique to try to cure severe headaches, epilepsy or abscesses. The funny thing is that there is evidence that many patients survived these trepanations.

Mercury

mampuero — 2021-07-13 19:45:41 UTC

Mercury was used ubiquitously for centuries, at all levels of society, in its liquid form (quicksilver) or as a salt. Calomel — also known as mercurous chloride — fell into the latter category and was used by some of the most illustrious personages in history, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Edgar Allan Poe, Andrew Jackson, and Louisa May Alcott.

CURE WITH RADIOACTIVE WATERS

acahuas1 — 2021-07-13 19:46:13 UTC

Have shown benefits on the endocrine system. They make the muscles strong and prevent asma and other chronic diseases.

Removal

vchicoma — 2021-07-13 19:47:05 UTC

A surgical cut that is done to completely remove an organ or a diseased part of the body. Many claim that it was used since ancient times mostly in wars when someone was wounded

Ramiro: leechs

2021-07-13 19:50:34 UTC

If it was because of an excess of blood, they applied leeches to remove the excess and restore balance.

Sutures

mohmura — 2021-07-13 19:50:38 UTC

The history of suturing may go back tens of thousands of years, when primitive man (or woman) invented the eyed needle. But, the first account on record of a surgical suture was around 3000 BC in Ancient Egypt. Accordingly, the oldest known suture is in an Egyptian mummy dating from 1100 BC.

These days, silk and gut sutures are still available, but many now come from man-made materials such as nylon, polypropylene, and polymers.

Bloodletting

jcepeda19 — 2021-07-13 19:50:50 UTC

For thousands of years, doctors held onto the belief that the disease was simply the result of a little "bad blood." Bloodshed probably began with the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians, but it did not become common practice until the time of classical Greece and Rome. With this in mind, patients with a fever or other ailment were often diagnosed with excess blood. In some cases, leeches were even used to suck blood directly from the skin.

Bloodletting

rrios28 — 2021-07-13 19:52:09 UTC

Considered one of medicine’s oldest practices, bloodletting is thought to have originated in ancient Egypt. It then spread to Greece, where physicians such as Erasistratus, who lived in the third century B.C., believed that all illnesses stemmed from an overabundance of blood, or plethora.
In medieval Europe, bloodletting became the standard treatment for various conditions, from plague and smallpox to epilepsy and gout. Practitioners typically nicked veins or arteries in the forearm or neck, sometimes using a special tool featuring a fixed blade and known as a fleam.

Diet with leaves.(Claudio)

2021-07-13 19:52:36 UTC

It is an alternative medicine technique that uses the healing properties of medicinal plants to maintain the health of the body. This method is so old since the world is world, and tries to enhance the benefits of nature to provide preventive, palliative and curative remedies.

The leechs

pquispe — 2021-07-13 19:54:14 UTC

Leeches were one of the most civilized methods of drawing blood, a popular way of curing disease.

Because leeches produce a protein that prevents blood from clotting, and this gives the small veins time to re-weld.

Cannibal cures

2021-07-13 19:54:30 UTC

Medical cannibalism is the consumption or use of the human body, living or dead, to treat disease. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids grew out of the belief that since the human body can heal itself, it can also help heal another human body. [1] This belief was shared among different groups, including ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, and Judaic cultures. [1] Many of the recipes for medical cannibalism applied the principles of sympathetic magic. disease, that is, the belief that the same affects such as powdered blood helps bleeding, human fat helps bruises, and powdered skulls help migraines or dizziness.

Mathias Fraselle

tobbaco smoke enema

fgabriel4 — 2021-07-13 19:54:49 UTC

In the past the stomach problems are were treated with tobacco smoke.

Mercury for everything

jrodriguezn — 2021-07-13 19:55:55 UTC

Mercury was used as an antiseptic to treat skin problems and for all kinds of cosmetic solutions

Medical Techniques of Incas

aayarza — 2021-07-13 19:56:39 UTC

Something that the Incas did many times years ago was to pierce a part of the skull while biting a coca leaf, then extract the part of the skull and do what was needed inside the brain and then put a gold plate on it to be able to seal the part of the skull. that had been previously extracted.

mercury

scofre — 2021-07-13 19:56:53 UTC

Joaquin portugal

2021-07-13 19:57:42 UTC

Bloodletting was used to treat serious illnesses. In fact, America's first president, George Washington, is said to have had 80 ounces of his blood drained from his body in a last-ditch effort to save him in his last hours of life.

Mercury treatment

pmera1 — 2021-07-13 20:00:13 UTC

It was also used as an antiseptic for wounds. "The treatment could be administered orally, rectally or through friction

In the middle of the 19th century, they considered the administration of mercury as basic for the diagnosis and cure of syphilis.

Bloodletting

cherrera59 — 2021-07-13 23:07:53 UTC

A bloodletting is also done to remove excess red blood cells from the blood, to treat certain blood disorders.