Alternative Therapies
Medieval ⚔
Religion ✝
Natural Remedies 🌲
Belief in using
Prayer 🙏🏻
Pilgrimage 👣
Shrines
Filled with bones hair and body parts of a holy person
Went to shrines of people
e.g. Thomas Becket
Church encouraged belief in miraculous healing
Wise Women 👵🏻
Herbal 🥕
Supernatural beliefs ☪
Each village had one
Traditional remedies passed down through generations
Markets and fairs offered herbal potions
They would use charms
Believed in astrology affecting health
e.g. Planet Alignment
Renaissance 🖌
Natural Treatments 🍀
Supernatural Treatments 💥:
Often done by women
Every plant was considered a possible cure
Belief in magic
Would buy 💰
Bones and blood of exotic animals
Spices- believed it would heal if it were foreign
Quacks 🦆
Travelling salesmen sold cure-alls
The Great Plague 👻
Cures
Animals
Used to draw out poisons
Frogs 🐸
Snakes 🐍
Scorpions 🦂
Chickens 🐔
Pigeons 🐦
Dogs 🐶
Industrial 🏭
Modern 👩🏼💻
Pain Relief ‼
Plastic Surgery 🗡
Religion ✝
Sang hymns and hoped God would take the pain away
Herbal Remedies 🍓:
Still used them with varying success
Drank alcohol but this increased heart rate and blood flow
Used fever reducers like willow bark and meadowsweet
A ward was set up to graft skin
21st Century
Used to treat those with severe facial wounds
Plastic surgery was respected all over the world
Reconstructed faces
Belief in macrobiotic diet (Vegan) 🍂
Believed this diet could cure cancers and other serious illnesses