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This cataplasm was put on the chest or the back and left until the person felt a stinging sensation. Mustard poultice could also be used to aid muscular pains.
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Dioscorides recorded medical uses for the plant. For extracting stings and thorns, xiphion was mixed with wine and frankincense to make a cataplasm. The plant was also used as an aphrodisiacFrancis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta (London, 1847), p.
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Many medical uses were ascribed to the plant.Pliny, XXII, Ch. 49 It was said that it could be used to treat cough, sore throat, fever, indigestion, aches and pains, warts, and all kinds of maladies. Hippocrates wrote: > When the gut protrudes and will not remain in its place, scrape the finest > and most compact silphium into small pieces and apply as a cataplasm. The plant may also have functioned as a contraceptive and abortifacient.
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In the UK, the plant was used to make "hot mustard baths", which would aid people with colds. Ground seeds of the plant mixed with honey are widely used in eastern Europe as cough suppressant. In Eastern Canada, the use of mouche de moutarde to treat respiratory infections was popular before the advent of modern medicine. It consisted in mixing ground mustard seeds with flour and water, and creating a cataplasm with the paste.
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Francisco Leona At the time, it was believed that drinking the blood of a human child and using their body fat as cataplasm was a remedy for tuberculosis. Francisco Ortega El Moruno (The Moor) had recently been diagnosed with tuberculosis and was desperately seeking a cure. He visited the local curandera Agustina Rodriguez, who in turn sent for the barber and healer Francisco Leona. Leona, who also had a criminal record, agreed to cure Ortega in exchange for 3000 reales.
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Schoolgirls in Britain being shown how to make a poultice, 1942 A poultice, also called a cataplasm, is a soft moist mass, often heated and medicated, that is spread on cloth and placed over the skin to treat an aching, inflamed or painful part of the body. It can be used on wounds such as cuts. 'Poultice' may also refer to a porous solid filled with solvent used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite. The word "poultice" comes from the Greek word "poltos" transformed in the Latin puls, pultes, meaning "porridge".
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