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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)The more we learned the more we knew how to take care of ourselves. Actually, one of our maids was a bruja and she cured me of altitude sickness back in the day when the Western doctors didn't have a clue. Her cure was coca tea and relieving the sea level blood pressure by deliberately allowing one to bleed it out when your nose was hemoraghing. The Western doctors tried to stop the bleeding.
Right after WWII, pharmaceuticals were unavailable where I lived because they were manufactured in the US and the US was catching up with a post war economy. The Western doctors in South America turned to the curanderas/os or brujas/os in the Amazon to discover what plants they used for various diseases until drugs like penicillin and more were available once again.