traditional folk medicine

[jacobitedreamer]

Hi Scots,

could anyone please tell me a wee bit about folk medicine in Scotland (rites, herbs, recipes). I have my room stuffed with dry herbs for any sort of health disorders, but I would like how these things were or are handled in Scotland, as this is where my family once came from. Any book you could recommend?

Yeah, call me a witch, but please don't burn me! ;=)

Thanks heaps,

Franziska

[Mamie]

but if they burn you you may have quite a bit of company up there with you.LOL

I hope someone does answer your question as it is one of my many varied interests too.

[jacobitedreamer]

Are you sure my way would go up with the smoke? Or rather to a place far warmer than heaven? Not so fond of finding out too early ;=)

[Mamie]

I don't believe in heaven and hell. So I'm not going either place - just back here to work on those lessons that just don't seem to sink in.LOL

[jacobitedreamer]

Hi then,

I don't quite know sometimes what to believe. Communist by school education, catholic by family tradition and heart, but very superstitious!

I love life and I believe in tomorrow! And I believe in the thousand things one can learn with an open mind - be it about herbs or poetry or anything else.

All the best,
Franziska

[crying-charlie]

As most of you know, my father has Cancer; well he has been taking natural alternatives and has stopped all Radio/Radium treatments.

He got the results of his scan last week and the Cancer has stopped spreading and he is now well over the life expectancy that the specialist gave him.

So this to me is a plus point for

1) Taking natural alternatives
2) Stop putting poisons into your body i.e. Radium etc

[jacobitedreamer]

Hi Crying Charlie,

I am happy to hear of your father's successful fight against cancer, I hope everything will turn out the way he hopes.

Actually I have entered the university last year to study "normal medicine", but just to know better how the human body is structured, how it works and what diseases exist - in many things I have far more faith in folk medicine. My father suffered from a severe heart inflammation last summer and I managed to get him "back to life" with mistletoe, saint John's word (root and flower) and other herbs, so the doctor was astonished that there was not even a scar left.

About cancer there is a lot to find in traditional medicine. My books recommend mistletoe, verbena and whitethorn, St.John's word never did harm. In Poland they use a tea made of dried carrots.

I would be curious to know how your father managed to get so far?!

Hey, the signet under your message, I have a silver necklace bearing the same symbol. It was a present from a penfriend of mine. What does it symbolize? Freedom?

All the best wishes for you and your father.

Franziska