| CAN ANIMALS HELP HEAL US? Do you know of someone in an assisted care or convalescent facility that has animals brought in for their residents? We have re-discovered the benefits that our relationships with animals can have on our health. I have done wildlife programs in care facilities and seen first hand how the unexpected sight of a Great Horned Owl brings instant smiles and childhood memories to the elderly. That kind of joy is very healing on a physical level. And the animals remain alive. There are many facilities that have resident cats or dogs or have pets brought in on a regular basis because their therapeutic benefits are recognized as more than just an enhancement to living - they enhance LIFE! But animals were used in medicine in other ways by our ancestors. Remember the methods prescribed in the story of Tom Sawyer to get rid of warts? It involved a CEMETERY AND A DEAD CAT.....! Here are only a few of the remedies brought to America by our pilgrim forefathers and mothers. I haven't tried any of them, so I am not reccomending any of these myself. Personally, I'd rather PET THE CAT. But keep in mind that these potions and poultices were used for hundreds of years in other countries, and SOME still are. Shasta County recently held a trial to prosecute hunters who were killing WHOLE BEARS to sell their gallbladders for export for male virility. Now, that's sexy! |
| *These recipes were researched in the Court House Museum archives of the Old Town of Shasta on Highway 299 in Shasta County. |
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| For rheumatism: Rub on an ointment of oil of geese, or wolves, or polecats, or bears. Rheumatism again: Apply live stinging bees to the affected joints. (The bees die.) Diptheria: Drink a tea of mashed snails and earthworms. Diaretic: A drop of scorpian oil in a cup of tea. (Really?) Stomach ache: Drink a tea made from steeping dried chicken gizzard linings in water. Bleeding: Apply cobwebs. Consumption: A meal of fried ratlesnake heart or skunk meat. (As if consumption weren't bad enough.) Warts: Rub them with ground green walnuts mixed in bacon fat. More warts? Rub them with chicken feet. (It doesn't specify whether the feet are removed from the chicken) Whooping cough: Drink owl broth. (And we were busy blaming the loggers) Heart disease and dropsy : Boil up a toad for lunch Earache: Drop in the ear the blood of a "Bessie Bug". Carbuncle: Apply a poultice of mud dauber's nest. Chapped hands: Apply kerosene mixed with beef tallow.(This will not put L'Oreal out of business.) Hives: Drink a tea made from steeping the scrapings from stallion's hooves. To Relieve Teething: Rub baby's gums with the warm brains of a freshly killed rabbit. (Oh Baby!) Shingles: Drink and apply to the affected areas the hot blood of a chicken* |
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| HEALING OF PEOPLE AND ANIMALS IS AMAZINGLY ENHANCED BY THE GENTLE ENERGY ARTS, WHICH INCLUDES REIKI. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS, GO |
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