Folk Medicine

Folk Medicine is similar to what we might call "home remedies." It's those cures you never read in a book, but which your parents or grandparents always swore by. Of course, before there were doctors, all remedies were folk remedies. Some of these are tried and true.

Click here to go to an example of a folk remedy.

Click here to go to a alt.folklore.news, a newsgroup on folk medicine.

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