What Did Women Use Before Modern Medicine To Cure Yeast Infections and Itching?
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Potassium permanganate, an intense violet-red liquid even in dilute solutions. It would be impregnated into large cotton swabs and inserted into the vagina.
Another treatment was gentian violet, another intensely purple dye.
a concoction of pine tar on burlap
Yogurt. They say eating yogurt works really well because of the bacteria in it some how kills the yeast infection. I don't know why, but hear it works really well.
I've heard consuming garlic is great for them.
My guess is yogurt and cranberry juice. They are still used today.
One such remedy is the eating of live-culture yogurt to reduce vaginal yeast infections
Usnea is a common and scientific name for several species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae, that generally grow hanging from tree branches
Goldenseal (Orange-root, Orangeroot; Hydrastis canadensis) is a perennial herb used in a tea
Cubeb (Piper cubeba), or tailed pepper, is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil. It is mostly grown in Java and Sumatra, hence sometimes called Java pepper.
There are many antibacterial natural remedies. Diet is also important. Just don't try something because you heard it on the internet.
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No no no no, people, if you want to CURE a yeast infection, soak a tampon in PLAIN yogurt. OKAY for like an hour or two, it'll be soggy and gross, but insert it anyway, and lay down and take a nap for a couple hours. CURED! Trust me, I did this when I was too poor to afford the 20 bucks for Monistat - 1 or something, and I would seriously never spend the money again. I'd do it again today if I thought I needed to. It may require a repeat treatment the next day, but the relief and results were fast! TRY IT!!!
I've heard yoghurt
I find what someone said above rather interesting: tampon soaked in yogurt...
Most of what I input here may seem an extreme digression, but I will impart it anyway.
Now, this use of yogurt is what one might want to suggest -- as does all of us who have been in the armed forces do know -- what you call -- improvising, a reality which is founded on Principle itself.
The innate capacity to improvise aligns with proper sense and is often sure-fire, for it taps into the God-knowledge at once, which light has little concern for patents and empiricism yet in fact bears considerable "logical" results.
We have come to rely too perversely much so on the fitness of allopathy and processed foods and do share lifestyles that fly in the face of what the human body evolved to countenance over the course of millions of years. Here in some mere 100 years we have violated the great works of the millennia that the human body and naturally genetic accoutrement has long afforded us.
No creation or invention by Man/Woman now exists that did not have its home in the incubator, which is improvisation and observation. When certain observations are compiled and set-to by means of need and reflection and urgency, solvency results, in which desire and initiative equal at once.
Now, to the point: before the advent of allopathic medicine and organic chemistry, in that of the very early 20th Century and existing to now, people relied on the oldest of the sciences -- Herbology, the science and use of botanical chemistries. With this existed the knowledge of those energies and signatures that persisted throughout all nature --earthen forms, air, water, and the proportions and balances in the use of these. As well was there knowledge of the Laws of Economy with regard to Nature itself.
There existed (and exists) no part of the Earth in which healers did not (and do not) have access to some variant plants that did not address these things, the least of which would be that of yeast infections. Quite frankly, such infections were quite rare, for women were well-apprised of health, very much so. The healers in those times, especially even up to the cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries knew that avoidance in the first place readily offset many conditions, for part of the herbologist's vast knowledge entreated teaching techniques of abatement of infirmity.
Women healers, the indigenous doctors, had charge of this sort of knowledge, and in truth had charge of anything as regards urogenital functions, sexuality and hygiene with regard to herbs and plants, men or women, so vast was the pool of knowledge regarding herbology, because again it took in knowledge of environment and weather, and what we now call geology that addressed use of the various minerals crucial to enjoying superb conditioning.
They knew that imbalances of 'diet' [as always] was the culprit to causing such infections, that the imbalances of oxygen and carbohydrates fed into such infections or were the causes. So rare was it and so rare was the improper use of foods that such infections were rather of minor concern, except during times of austerity, say, during wars; thus things were given time to heal, not rushed, usually by employing principles of avoidance.
Simply allowing the body to get air, for example, was paramount, for anaerobic microbes, they discovered, could not withstand fresh air; they came to know what these microbes were and their behaviors and how to identify them. Menses periods were aided, for example, with the uses of mosses for curative and soothing topical applications. The great woman shamans of Amazonia knew this knowledge well as did those of North America. All did, no matter what part of the Earth lived cultures.
These allopathic medicines today designed by pharmacology (Pharm.D.) and as prescribed by allopathic doctors (M.D.) today do help stimulate organs and glands to do otherwise what would require time to otherwise heal, but these do not fit the organs themselves to offset such invasions or underlying pathologies...
Only our cousins, the plants know how to do this, for they evolved in lock-step with us, whose chemistries resonate with our own, not unlike certain music chords are harmonious with or dissonant to our ears. Now, these are what we want to call signatures; they are most real. Sadly, the schools have all but misplaced this knowledge and in many instances have lost it entirely; even indigenous people in many areas have lost their early knowledge amid the encroachment of the Western cultures.
Two books that you may find intriguing are the following:
Herbs The Magic Healers --
by Paul Twitchell; with edits by the biochemist A. Stuart Wheelwright; a spell-binding little intrigue of a book on botanical medicine, easy to read, enlightening...
and this one...
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice --
by Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D., originally out of Harvard University, and later associated with Conservation International; a fine narrative on the science and somewhat cultures who rely upon the great plants; a good read.
I was told yogurt was the best medicine for a yeast infection.
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