5 most ancient roman wine recipes

My grandmother was a recognized genius of alternative medicine. Do you have a problem – she has a solution. Moreover, the more complicated case, the easier the cure. Cold cures a whole series of procedures, rather than, say, from deafness, infertility, Parkinson’s disease, or simply helping tincture of plantain poultice made from buckwheat or a woolen sock.

Another advantage – national treatment is never a passive sinecure. You always have something to do. Buttercups by the roots to dig something boiling in a water bath, something to shred on a grater to atomic decay. And how could it be otherwise? Sleeping foxes catch no poultry.

In this concept a lot in common with the ancient, Roman medicine. “A healthy body – healthy mind”. It’s not just about the benefits of physical education. It is that all diseases, including mental, are purely material, physical cause, and cured the same clear means – such as cabbage, which, according to Cato the Elder, is able to cure cancer and brain diseases, as well as insomnia, and nasal polyps .

And if, for example, a mother of D’Artagnan gives him a farewell recipe balm that helps “all wounds, but the heart”, the Roman doctor Celsus any, would consider the action of a universal balm. (Incidentally, the balm consisted of wine, oil and rosemary, that was, in fact, salad dressing.)

This practical, not sentimental, view of health has been good for the development of surgery and hygiene, but it’s great hurt pharmacology. Rome, followed by the medieval and pharmacology – is pure obscurantism. What I suggest you see for yourself in Example 5 of the strangest wine recipes Medicine.

Recipes Cato and Pliny

1. If you are deaf, pound the cabbage with the wine and squeeze the juice and pour in the form of heat inside his ear; you immediately feel that you hear better.

Cato the Elder , on agriculture, 156 – 160

2. Liver wolf in hot wine cures cough.

3. Indigestion can be treated with sheep fat, cooked in a sturdy wine

4. Against chirev, along with the ointment of fresh chicken feces and vinegar also helps the stomach stork, cooked in wine.

5. Insomnia drink wine with myrrh and then sheep.