by Laura
I have long been a big supporter of
natural treatments and medicines that are derived directly from
nature. They may be taken as teas, decoctions, or processed into
little pills to take when the plants are not available in winter.
But here is a case where someone just
instinctively made his own common-sense “potion”, plastered it to
his skin, and in only a few days was symptom-free.
The gentleman shall be known only as C.
S. of Mount Vernon, Washington, since he may not want the status of
online celebrity-hood.
But he wrote a letter to leaders who
run a summer camp, hoping it might help kids afflicted with hay fever
while at camp.
His experience was this: “I gathered
the pollen from the grasses that were blooming, mashed them up, and
mixed them with Vaseline. I put a glob of that mixture in the crook
of my arm, figuring it was a sensitive area, and wore it for two or
three days. The hay fever symptoms disappeared.” He repeated this
in August when ragweed season starts, and had the same success. This
relieved his long-standing “summer misery” as he called it, of
the previous thirty years before trying this remedy.
No one knows how he hit upon this
approach, but it makes sense for a lot of reasons. First of all, I
like that fact that he gathered pollens that were in HIS local area,
and not some random, generic treatment that may or may not be
specific to the local offenders where he lived.
Second, he placed his mixture directly
on his skin. It is wise to avoid internal use of even herbal
medicines and treatments unless one has been trained by a
knowledgeable herbalist. The elbow, I suppose, was chosen because it
is out of the way of cuffs, watchbands, and jewelry. It also has
thinner skin than is found on the arm itself.
Third, it is just amazing that this
treatment worked so quickly! Compare this to the months of injections
proposed by the average allergy physician to desensitize a patient
to, for example, grass pollen.
So I applaud Mr S for sharing his
experience for a very common ailment that afflicts millions every
year. I, too, used to take Claritin for assorted allergies but it
seemed very silly and even counter-productive to take a treatment all
year round when most of the offenders were each present only a few
weeks of the year. Makes moolah for the drug companies, tho.
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