It's good that the allopathic doctors are taking
things into account that 50 or even 20 years ago
would have been laughed off as looniness.
But 150/200 years ago, he would have been doing the same thing as every
other doctor in the use of remedies like that. The manufactor and use of
Undoubtedly.
drugs is a relatively new way to treat disease and such like.
Well, in a sense. Compounding pharmacies have a
history longer than you'd imagine, and even though
many of the handmade medicines were pretty loony
tunes, some of them worked - and are still in use
in some form, especially botanical alkaloids.
Admittedly, it has helped to eradicate a lot of what used to be killer
issues but by the same token, drug resistant bacteria and such like have mutated, making it harder to treat some issues.
It's largely stupid misuse of drugs that has spurred
resistance. If people used just what was needed when it
was needed, the problem would be much less if not
nonexistent.
It's not easy to determine the right course from a
close point of view. Anyhow, I agree with the poet,
philosopher, and all-around loony Paul Claudel, who
is quoted as saying [and I paraphrase] "don't look
for the path, keep your eye on the goal."
Seems to be a good idea as long as you do keep half an eye out for any possible hazards at your feet or just above your head level.
Sometimes, as with eyes on the prize, one has to fall
into a few holes before achieving any kind of success.
That's why "giving back the land to the natives" won't work either.
It would have unintended consequences that you or I
might find both appalling and amusing at the same time.
Most likely so.
Let's see - leading with the hurting leg, right?
Going down, yes. Going up, the good leg goes first.
Ah, of course.
present. White sugar would work also but is messier and we don't
keep > any in the house.
There are a lot of hygroscopic substances that
presumably would work.
Probably, but how many are common around the house? We use sugar, but
not white sugar so it has "impurities" in it and wouldn't work for long
term medical care. OTOH, the honey we use probably would work but we're staying with the medical grade honey the doctor gave us.
Probably some of the starches would work. I'm not sure
about anything else offhand.
Curtail the use of the internal combustion
engine would be a start. I've been saying
that for 50 years.
And research has come up with alternatives but those still have enough problems that they're not viable to be marketed to the masses.
Mostly it's an economic thing.
Most likely. For a while I was a major booster
of the product.
Before you moved away from the Boston area?
Not sure exactly. I still buy the things once
in a while.
Sweet memories?
To some degree.
The Indians and others make brittles out of all
kinds of seeds and nuts. Some are pretty good.
Others taste like dust, twigs, or marijuana.
Pays your money, takes your choice (or chance).
Yeah. I think I posted some reports about these
including Bansi rajgira chikki, which were the
ines that tasted like marijuana.
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Title: Dampfnudeln (Dumplings)
Categories: Cyberealm, Desserts
Yield: 6 servings
18 oz Flour
3 tb Sugar
Salt
1 pk Yeast
2 1/8 c Milk
1 Egg
2 tb Oil
2 tb Butter
2 tb Sugar
2 tb Poppy Seeds
Dried, seedles prunes
1.Make a yeastdough out of flour, 1 sugar, salt, yeast, milk, egg and
oil. 2. Let rise and then roll out, 2-3 cm thick and cut with a round
cutter into 5 cm diameter circles, let rise again. 3. Fill ech circle
with one prune ,pinch good on edges. 3. Heat butter and sugar in a
skillet and add 1 cup of water; add the dumplings and cover and
simmer 5-8 min on medium. Put the dumplings on platter and melt
butter and mix with sugar and poppy seeds and pour over dumplings. 5.
Serve warm. Translated by Brigitte Sealing Cyberealm BBS Watertown NY
315-785-8098
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