Ekaterina Zhuzhaeva, About Traditional Medicine

In this interview Ekaterina says that in the past traditional medicine was very limited. Ekaterina: In the past, there was no medicine. When children had a fever, they were quarantined. Since there was no medicine, people boiled water, added flour and drank it. There were no doctors either. The sick who were destined to recover, recovered. Others died. Question: How did people cure toothache? Ekaterina: In the past, there were no methods. Teeth rotted away and simply fell out. Question: How did people cure sores? Ekaterina: People went to see folk healers who applied hot butter to sores and burned the soars off. Syphilis was cured in this way. Simple soars were not treated, but were left to heal by themselves. I heard so, although I was never treated by the ‘burn off’ method. ; Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin