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Interesting fact that we learned today is that the old treatment of a Ganglion (which is basically a cystic degeneration of tissues) was to hit it with the family Bible which led to the rupture of the cyst and BAM, all cured! Man it must've been fun practicing medicine back then!
And how they used to put worms on the wound to prevent infection or suck unwanted fluids out. What was that called, Worm therapy?
So I did a little research about it and found something else very interesting:
So I did a little research about it and found something else very interesting:
In 2006, a man named Jasper Lawrence travelled to Africa to deliberately infect himself with hookworm by walking barefoot in a steaming mound of human excrement. He and other proponents of so-called helminthic therapy say that industrialized societies have become too clean,
and in the process of sterilizing our homes and bodies, we’ve eradicated an essential piece of our biology: intestinal worms.
The therapy requires the deliberate infection with helminths, or parasitic worms, by swallowing them or letting them crawl through the skin.
The therapy requires the deliberate infection with helminths, or parasitic worms, by swallowing them or letting them crawl through the skin.
It claims to alleviate a range of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases like allergies, inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Strange? Yes!
The article also states that there was a man in California who had severe IBD. Standard treatment of steroids wasn’t effective for him, so he went to Thailand & got a doctor to infect him with human Trichuris trichiura [whipworm] & surprisingly enough, he got better right away.
The parasite only stays in the body for a few years, so when it disappeared, he started to come down with IBD again. So then he got himself infected once again and got better, AGAIN!
Not sure if it was merely the placebo effect or he had some really strong belief in this therapy (People feeling better by some strange treatment simply because of firm belief is nothing new) but I find this old school way of practicing medicine very cool.
No nerd shit but when exams end, I'm gonna dig all these old practices up. Will be updating you guys too.
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