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  • I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donn

    A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. August Bier

    Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Proverbs

    People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan

    Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. Norman Cousins

    Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life!Emily Dickinson

    In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. Cicero

    Medicines are not meat to live by. German Proverb

    Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. Franklin Pierce Adams

    Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding. Norman Cousins

    Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. Norman Cousins

    Common sense is in medicine the master workman. Peter Latham

    Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. Peter Mere Latham

    Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. Martin H. Fischer

    The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. Elbert Hubbard

    It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. William Osier

    The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale

    Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand Hippocrates

    Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates

    The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison

    There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus

    Tea is a cup of life. Author Unknown

    What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones. Max Lerner

    No doctor is better than three. German Proverb

    How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Florence Nightingale

    It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. John Brown

    Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. Chinese Proverb

    O' peppermint tea -two delights per sipas steamy hot as passioncool as a wintry lake dipAstrid Alauda

    Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession. Haven Emerson

    Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. Jean-Martin Charcot

    'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. Henry David Thoreau

    Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates

    Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once, but when they camethey answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.' Hilaire Belloc

    It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. Chinese Proverb

    Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. Roul Turley

    Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity Hippocrates

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August 17, 2009

First Aid for Stinging Nettles or Poison Ivy

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Stinging Nettle

I discovered a great way to treat “plant stings” while in the woods.  I was in the woods doing an herb walk for my master herbalist seminar, and I was at the back of a line of 32 people, so I didn’t hear the teacher talking about the Stinging Nettles plant they were walking by.  When I got up to it, it caught my eye, because I had been studying plant identification cards.  I asked the guy behind me, but he didn’t know what it was and suggested I pick off a part to ask the teacher.

I didn’t see any thorns on it, so I picked off the top with my bare hands. I felt a tiny sting, but not enough to think much about it. I took it to the teacher, who informed me that it was indeed stinging nettle. Duh!

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Plantain (some regard as a weed)

I thought it was novel I was actually holding it, so I showed the other students at the back of the line, and then tossed it away.  One of them handed me a leaf of Hound’s Tongue, which I started rubbing on my finger that was stinging a little. My finger felt better, but I felt a little idiotic about the whole thing.

Dr. Christopher taught that if you ever close encounter Poison Ivy or Stinging Nettles in the woods, a remedy will be growing nearby. When you’re camping or hiking, especially with kids, this is a valuable thing to know!  Just look for plantain, mullein or hounds tongue, pick a leaf, bruise it up a bit, and rub it on the affected area.

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Mullien (take a drive in the mountains and you'll see those stalks all over the place)

I have a couple field guides I take camping to help me identify plants. After learning and locking in to my brain what a few certain plants look like, I am noticing them everywhere. It’s a wonderful thing to have so many helpful plant tools available for our use.

Dr. Christopher does sell already made rash ointment, which I’ve used on many occasions and highly recommend.

Picture credit for top left: From a website called kitchentablemedicine.com with a great article on The Healing Power of Stinging Nettles. Bottom pictures: From a card reference set called Nature’s Medicine Chest ID and Use Cards.

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