Re:Wales’s Trade in Leeches and Maggots
by jph on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:46PM
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Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth, because of the appreciation of folk remedies, herbal treatments, fungi supplements, and more. Healers can recommend tonics, tinctures, barefoot walking in the woods, cold river plunges, and hot water bottles.
It turns out that many of the Wales natural approaches do align with westernized medical research, and often are available at a fraction of the price of westernized treatment.
Re:Wales’s Trade in Leeches and Maggots
by Isamu on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:33PM
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>Like leeches, maggots have a long history in treating wounds. They are thought to have been used by the Mayan tribes of Central America and Aboriginal Australians. Their first recorded use by a doctor was during the American civil war.
>The first documented therapeutic use of maggots in the United States is credited to a second Confederate medical officer Dr. J.F. Zacharias, who reported during the American Civil War that:
"Maggots in a single day would clean a wound much better than any agents we had at our command ... I am sure I saved many lives by their use."
He recorded a high survival rate in patients he treated with maggots.
Re:Wales’s Trade in Leeches and Maggots
by neilv on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:08PM
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As children, in Outdoor School, we were taught that if you're lost in the woods with a wound, and maggots get into it, that's good, because they'll clean the tissue that would otherwise cause worse problems, so you should say "I love them there maggots."
It turns out that many of the Wales natural approaches do align with westernized medical research, and often are available at a fraction of the price of westernized treatment.
North Wales, perhaps. Snowdonia is beautiful, but have you ever been to Cardiff on a Saturday night?
A little like Mordor?
What? I don't know where you ended up in Wales, but I live in a regular, city-like part of Wales and I can tell you that the healthcare is awful.
More from here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy
>The first documented therapeutic use of maggots in the United States is credited to a second Confederate medical officer Dr. J.F. Zacharias, who reported during the American Civil War that:
"Maggots in a single day would clean a wound much better than any agents we had at our command ... I am sure I saved many lives by their use." He recorded a high survival rate in patients he treated with maggots.