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Alain Touwaide is on a mission to unearth lost medicinal knowledge from ancient manuscripts
What would the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates have used to treat, say, a bad headache?
A cataplasm – or poultice – made of iris mixed with vinegar and rose perfume. And for a chronic headache, squirting cucumber.
What if he had a stomach ailment?
Dates, a hen’s broth and cultivated lettuce.
What is the most memorable remedy you’ve come across?
Spiders’ webs. Amazingly, I found spiders’ webs and many other materia medica mentioned in the ancient literature when my wife and I visited the…
