| Did you know that if you got sick in the middle ages when you were a kid or adult the
doctors used to cut you in the head or arm to let out the blood? The reason was doctors believed that you had to much blood. Medicines were often made at home from herbs and plants. Sometimes herbs were mixed with worms, animals fat, blood, garlic bits, bones, and even fingernails. |
Mint was
used to help with upset stomachs |
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Yarrow was used to treat wounds and bruises and to help cure colds when mixed with mint |
To find a cure, your mother might look for a remedy that had been passed down to your mother from her mother. Some popular remedies were: -for a skin rash-rub with goose fat -for boil on your skin -rub with a mixture of goose fat and garlic
-for sore throat- drink a tea made of blackberry leaves. |
| There were only a few
doctors in villages and mostly they treated rich people. Hospitals were set up by the church and there were 400 hospitals in England in the year of 1250. And the barbers did surgery! Operations were dangerous and painful. They didn't have good painkillers to help the pain. Sometimes painkillers or surgery would kill you or they would not work very well. |
Garlic was also used to treat colds and allergies. It was also used to treat intestinal worms. |
