20 - Sunday, August 23, 1992 - North Shore News

Some home remedies really do work

FUNNY. HERE I’ve been mulling over this
column for you about old-time nostrums, and
when I pick up the current copy of Your Bet-
ter Health, what’s the top featured article?

Home remedies!

Incidentally, do you
receive a copy of this little
magazine from our health
ministry? You’re supposed
to. It’s produced four times
a year and it’s got some
very good articles well
worth attention, but it’s
also got a Chartey-horse in
its distribution arm.

It’s intended to reach
every door in the province,
but the delivery system
needs chiropractic. Your
pharmacist gets a handful
of covies, and it’s received
pretty regularly by people
who live in houses, but not
all of us in apartments and
townhouses are so lucky.

. It’s free, by the way.

{It’s not aimed at seniors,
‘especially, it’s just a fluke
that’ the--current issue,
Summer °92, bears two ar-
ticles of particular interest
to our generation. One of
them is the home remedies
_thing, the other is about the
benefits and challenges of
volunteering in your old
age.

‘ Inspiring.

Anyway, the page
‘devoted to. home remedies
‘starts with chicken soup, in
its: ancient role as a cold
cure. It’s been proven that
‘it does release a particular
-amino acid that works on
lung mucous, and ‘this is
what brings you out of the
doldrums. Garlic well,
you’ve heard ali the jokes,
‘but. it harbors globs of
‘sulphur-rich molecules
‘which are released when it’s
cut, or chewed and these
are champions at cleansing
circulatory systems.

And. broccoli Mr.
Bush to. the contrary not-
withstanding — is deemed
to contain a chemical that

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You may gag at just the

name of it, but cod liver oil was
does work in alleviating the.

pain of some rheumatoid
arthritis. ©

Nobody’s telling you to
lap it up, though, or to lay
into the garlic to stave off a
stroke, because we share
this human frailty of think-
ing if one’s good, two’s

better. Imagine overdosing -

on broccoli.

But the marveious lenitive
I want to tell you about is
simply a _ strange-looking
succulent plant that you can
buy for a couple of dollars
and rely on forever.

For myself, it brought
overnight deliverance from
pain and suffering, and I
shall never again be without
a sprig of it.

Some creature had bitten
me, in two places, in the
soft underside of my upper
arm. It itched furiously for
days, and of course I scrat-
ched it frequently, which
didn’t help. It was especial-
ly contentious at night, and
interfered with sleep.

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Instead of just healing as
it Gught, the arm began to
swell above my elbow, and
to feel hard and inflamed. I
was thinking of lugging it to
my doctor, fearing he
would have to amputate, at
the very least.

Quite by accident (who
knows from accidents?), the
little plant came into my
ken and saved my body. I
had been helping my friend
to a little walk, sticking to
the shady bits, taking it
slowly in the heat, letting us
enjoy the wayside flowers.

Such a good summer for
bloom. We spoke of
gardens we used to have,
and which neither of us
now has either space or
energy tc tend. But plants,
oh yes, we can enjoy our
house plants.

“Do you have an aloe
vera?’ asked my friend.
No, I didn’t know what it
. ‘Ah, then,’’ she said,
“‘you must have a root of
mine. It’s wonderfully heal-
ing, especially for burns.’’

No sooner said.

That night, wakened once
again by the discomfort in
my bitten arm, I thought to
try the aloe vera — any-
thing to give me some

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relief. It’s a strange-looking
plant, more cactus than
anything, I’d guess. It looks
antedeluvian, no stalk, just
greenish mottled tentacles,
asymmetrical.

The magic lies inside
these tentacles, which are
very juicy — one simply
pinches off an inch or so,
and the benign juice begins
to ooze immediately.

I rubbed the juicy end all
over my little wounds, and
again in the morning, hav-
ing been able to fall asleep
after the first application.
Several times through the
day I spread the balm on
my sore skin.

By the following morn- -:
ing, the arm was clear of ~
any discomfort. No swell-
ing, no inflamation. I was
ecstatic. I talked with Bob,
my pharmacist, who showed
me a jar of ointment pur-
porting to contain aloe
vera, but for half the price
of that one could buy a
starter plant at the Quay:
and raise one’s own. ;

Like all those authorities
in the health article, I’m not
suggesting this be the only..
panacea in your collection,”
bui it is surely remarkable.’
Wonderful for children’s *:
hurts and it requires water

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