Kitchen Medicine: Table Salt

Hae Min on 5 May 2011 | 29260 Comments | Tags: salt, table salt, sodium chloride, herbal remedies, home remedies, barefoot doctor, natural cures, kitchen medicine

I am starting a series of blog entries (I do not promise that they will be consequtive or follow some kind of logical progression.) on the topic of Kitchen Medicine. Kitchen Medicine is what is practiced already in every home in every country since humans began trying to cure ourselves of what ails us. Mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, and neighbors act as doctors and nurses, examining, consoling, questioning, diagnosing, performing triage, and treating. Often what we know to do comes from our own cultural traditions, herbs and foods that our ancestors learned how to use, what we learned from our parents. Rarely did we turn to a written resource unless it was more serious. Now there's the internet, a great deal more useful and extensive than the Encyclopedia Brittanica that we had when I was growing up.

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