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8 Old Wives’ Remedies, Revisited
Eating skunk fat, stepping in warm cow dung-2 folk remedies that do not work. These slides explain 8 others that do.
To relieve chest congestion, remove the fat from a skunk and eat 2 or 3 spoonfuls to bring up the phlegm. For athlete’s foot, step in warm cow dung. For a headache, save hair clippings after a haircut and bury them under a rock. For a sick child, take some blood from the child’s arm, put it on a grain of corn, and feed it to a black hen.These folk remedies, however appealing, all have one thing in common: They clearly don’t work. We found 8 others that do, with science to back them up. Click through them, above.
References:
Introduction: Old Home Remedies
3. Starve a Fever, Feed a Cold
4. An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
5. Weight Loss as Simple as H2O
6. Honey Does More Than Attract Flies
Research That Is Changing Endocrinology: Advances, Challenges, and The Future, with Irl B Hirsch, MD
April 3rd 2025ACP 2025: Irl B Hirsch, MD, reviewed findings from 8 papers published in 2024 that he believes have made or will make a difference in the practice or understanding of the clinical area.
