Honey Mud Maggots And Other Medical Marvels

Many modern medical practices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. This book investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by twentieth-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity.
It calls upon the medical establishment to open itself up to the possibilities of alternative therapies - ones that have withstood the test of time precisely because they work. Ranging widely across time and place, from Ancient Egypt to the rain forests of present-day Latin America, this book covers the various and laudable healing properties of "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels".