Levkas / Lefkáda :: Comparisson reports

“Medicines can be divided into three types: 1. those that belong to traditional and scientific medicine; 2. those that originate in ancient and scientific medicine; and 3. those whose origin is unknown but are valid because they have been used for a long time.

Without doubt, this last category includes the different medicines which come from the animal world and were used by ancient peoples. Their origins are in Arab medicine.

These remedies include excrement against hemorrhoids, human urine (especially from small children) against various inflammations and internally as a means to cleanse blood. In addition, cheese and chicken fat are used against hemorrhoids, as is rubbing mother’s milk on inflammations, and eggs with olive oil, no salt, and pig bladder against erysipelas (“Saint Anthony’s fire”) and cold sores.

In addition, internal body heat from birds, for example, pigeons, is also used along the coast to treat inflammation. The animal is cut in half and, without removing the feathers, placed on the inflamed body part. Scorpion oil (oil in which scorpions have been soaked a long time) are also used against bites by the same animal.”