Amazing and frightening ways of treating diseases in African tribes that still exist today!
Medicine was born a long time ago, but by the time developed countries were just mastering this science, some tribes had long been able to heal people and heal wounds.
If you are sure that all the skills of a medicine man are dancing around a fire and calling out to spirits, then you are deeply mistaken! Some tribes have surpassed modern science, but what did it cost them? Many scientists are inclined to believe that all their knowledge is a trial and error method!
Many of the tribes that exist today still use these methods! Maybe that's why they still exist?
“Do not build huts where mosquitoes live, because mosquitoes are evil, they make the blood hot,” said the sages of many tribes. Aconite roots are a powerful diaphoretic that relieves the suffering of a malaria patient. They knew how to heal and the so-called "black waters" back in the days when most of Europe became extinct from this disease.
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The method of treating tetanus with shormugra seed oil, discovered by European scientists in the period between the two world wars, has also been successfully used by African doctors for a long time.
Long before radium was discovered in Europe, Congolese people cured rheumatism with black river mud, and women used the same mud for a variety of purposes. For example, they wore it in amulets if they did not want to have children. Finally, scientists condescended to make analyzes of this dirt and found that it was radioactive. Radium not only relieves rheumatism pain, but also causes infertility.
The natives of the Alur tribe, who have long been united in the upper reaches of the Nile, cured madness by burying the patient up to the throat in a large anthill. It is only recently that modern physicians have begun to use formic acid as a tonic and to cure neurasthenia.
Among the most unusual African remedies is the treatment of malaria with spider webs. For centuries, healers have made pills from certain kinds of cobwebs. At the end of the last century, using the same cobweb, the Spanish pharmacologist Odiva obtained an antipyretic agent called arachnidine, which is similar in its properties to quinine.
Open wounds were taught to sew up by tribal healers long before the appearance of doctors in the world! Ants were placed one by one on the wound. And then each ant dug its jaws into the flesh, connecting the edges of the wound. In the end, the wound was sutured as neatly as if the needle of a skilled surgeon had worked on it. And the infection, you ask? In the Congo, the sun will take care of that.
Relapsing fever, caused by the bite of the spirilla tick, is another disease that healers have defeated. In areas affected by this typhus, the natives, wherever they went, always carried their "personal" ticks with them, allowing them to roam freely throughout the body and thus providing the circulatory system with natural antitoxin.
For many centuries before the invention of modern serum, black healers learned to save a person bitten by a snake. In this area, they are still far ahead of mainstream science, because they know how to develop immunity in their patients. Look at the feet of the Gold Coast bearer - these are the people most likely to step on snakes - and you will find small cuts on each foot between the thumb and second toe. They are applied every few years, and the person bitten by the snake survives.
The Hottentots used sheep's wool to treat many skin conditions. Lanolin, a well-known modern remedy, is extracted from the grease secretions in sheep's wool and is readily absorbed by the skin.
Any African medicine man has a whole arsenal of laxatives, in his bag there is always a full set of herbs with diuretic and anesthetic effects. Witch doctors know the male fern that drives out the tapeworm.
Back in the Neolithic period, craniotomy was done in Africa to relieve increased intracranial pressure in the event of a cranial injury. And the most interesting thing is that some patients managed to survive while doing this. This is evidenced by the skulls, which keep quite obvious traces of the operation. Instead of sterile instruments, these surgeons used fragments of stones or volcanic glass. Herbs, fire, and alcohol served as antiseptics.
Egypt - home to many civilized arts and crafts - was in all likelihood witnessing the birth of medical science. The doctors who grew up on the banks of the Nile were several orders of magnitude superior to the healers who inhabited the rest of the continent. The papyrus of 1568 BC, e, has preserved a whole list of miraculous remedies.
One way to treat colds is alligator urine! Egyptian healers hunted it with the help of hunters who hunted these reptiles. The doctors cut out the bladder and advised the patient to drink this drink hot. The urine had an antiseptic and antiviral effect, which helped to heal in a few days. Theraflu of our time, so to speak.