unspoken thoughts

heaDaChE rEmEdieS

what happens when u get a bad headache during

a period around 5000 years ago??
Chances are your local medicine man would hav diagnosed the presence of evil spirits and prescribed trepanning which is boring a hole in ur skull, without the benefit of anaesthetic to provide an easy exit for whatever malevolent force had managed to get in

ancient Egypt??
The treatment wud hav been somewhat less severe but rather more bizarre. The Egyptians believed pain wuz caused by angry gods and, in effort to appease them, you’d b told to make an offering of herbs which u place in the mouth of a clay crocodile and bind it to your head!!

Middle Ages??
U wud hav had the advantage of painkillers. Belladonna and hemlock were in use, and opium and mandrake root, long used in the Middle East, had found their way to Europe. Although if the superstitions surrounding the two-pronged mandrake root did not worry u, haphazard administration of this highly toxic drug probably would

17th century??
The standard treatment for recurrent headaches was shaving the skull, after which a special plaster wud b applied to ur bare head. Not surprisingly, herbal remedies were rather more popular and effective. The herb feverfew, for example, was frequently prescribed [recent studies hav confirmed its ability to prevent migraine when taken daily], and u may hav been encouraged to eat mouldy rye bread, although it was not until 1868 that ergot, the product of a grain fungus, was identified as the reason this cure worked so well. Like feverfew, ergot became an established treatment for headache in the early part of century, and is still considered an effective drug

today??
Common remedy is 2 tablets of Panadol and a short nap afterwards

*alhamdulilah kita sudah maju dlm bidang perubatan.. tak payahla nk pi bukak kepala org and buat benda2 jahilliah ini.. =)

posted by || intan || @ 3:36:00 AM