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After much popularity and success among the pharaohs and their people, these cures and remedies

deem to be the best among Egypt and even the world. In order to get the full effect of these treatments, one must bear in mind the many deities behind the recoveriesworship them, celebrate them, and thank them!

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Whole Mice : These fury, little


tips: Use "Penu" or the
Aw!If only the Egyptian Spiny Mice wasn't so cute. But they are widely available and easy to catch!

vermin are used to cure almost everything!

Beautiful, Dark Hair

mouse for your graying hair and even dry scalp! Put it in oil and roast it until it is almost rottingthen apply! Although there is no deity represented as a mouse, the temple of King Ramesses VI graces the depiction of onealmost as if with holy head gear.

The mice is versatile, cheap, and easy to acquire. Its use is mostly popular among the children as it was just taken down orally with no pain, weird taste, or horrible side effectsit was just like eating a meal! They could help the heavy, whooping ones to the light 'chin-coughs'. In fact, the cure was so greatuse them whole! "Catch the mouse, kill it, put it in the oven, roast it till it's burnt to a cinder, take it out and pound it to a powder in a basin of milk and give it to a child to drink." This will soothe their alimentary canals! The mice's flesh, tail, fat, and even its ashes are very important. Mice are cut open and put on serpent bites and scorpion-stings. The ashes and tails are used for alopecia. . .

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When its ashes are mixed with honey, it can be put into the ear for ear-aches, rubbed on the teeth for toothaches, and used to help bad breath. The flesh of the mouseespecially fried or roasted, is especially useful. It addition to coughs, they can be used for warts, gout, stomach issues, scabies, and separation of pus in the lungs. All this from a mouse? It is truly a miracle. Thank the mouse gods!

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How to Treat Burns:

The scorching sun beats down on your skin, leaving it raw, painful, and nearly destroyed. As an Egyptian, it is so important to know how to treat sunburnsand to all the possible visitors, take note! This is also good for getting burned by cooking fires and ovens. The Five Day Plan to Burns: Treat those "webdets"! Day 1) Apply black mud directly onto the burn. Allow it to cool and temporarily treat the pain and comfort the skin. Day 2) Apply the excrements of a small cow or sheep onto the burn as a form of "sermet khepret". Day 3) Mix the resin of acacia, barley dough, carob, and oil and then apply it to the burn. Day 4) Mix wax, oil, cooked papyrus paper, and a legume called "wah-legume" and then apply. Day 5) Carob, red ochre, the khes of the Ima tree, and copper flakes.
A depiction of Carob in its pods. It sun sure is beautifuljust not its effects!

For many people who have tried this, it was pretty uncomfortable to leave dung onto their arms as well as making the arm prone to infections. shot because it is the Ebers papyrus. However, it is still worth giving it a

Bacterial Infections: This is recognized as a condition described as a "sma webnu" or diseased wound in which it is "neser, shemmet, desher" or inflamed, heat, and red. That is exactly what it is and many other civilizations that are not as advanced as ours (Egypt), did not understand this concept of treating it. We almost fully under stood that it had to do with bacteria from outside going inalthough it is the breath of an outside demon or death. There is often a series of spells that accompany the cures of infections.

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Infections: Treat them


like a profast and easy!
A natural antibiotic used in Egypt.

Best Ingredients Used For Infections 1) Common Salt (hemat): Salt was popular especially in Lower Egypt where it was made by evaporating the sea water. Apply it to the skin and then hold it in place by a bandage. 2) Malachite (wadju): This is a powder that is especially good for inhibiting pathogens. They are good for inflammation and application directly in the woundand it's a pretty green color! 3) Onion (hedju): Onion should be ground finely in beer, ingested, spitted out, and then applied to inflamed or infected snake bites. Another way is mixing an onion with water after having it blessed by the priest of Serqet.

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Honey: the deliciously sweet, antibacterial

"liquid gold" of medicine and found all over medical papyri. When grinding grain down, there is always those pesky pebbles that we end up biting down on and breaking our teethhow painful and horrible! Try this for relief and better dental conditions. First combine and mix honey with sycamore fruits, beans, and all kinds of minerals prescribed For your troubles of "using the bathroom", honey is great for the gastro-intestinal tract. Understand that the well-being of the large bowel, rectum, and anus are very important! As a laxative or "purging of the belly", add 1/16 of milk plus another 1/64 of it, with a notched sycomore fig, 1/4 honey that is boiled and strained. Drink for four days! by your physician. Then apply it on the sore tooth, and you're done. Warning: Not a pleasant color, but a sweet taste! Fun Facts 1. There is no word for "constipation". The closest word in context is "shena" meaning 'obstacle' or 'obstruction'! 2. Putting honey as offerings to the gods is an extremely smart idea! Not only is it delicious, it will not spoil!

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Willow Tree: The gently

weeping willow will help your severe symptoms! The willow tree is an analgesic much like opiates and the narcotics which are also very popular in Egypt. "Tjeret" or a special, vague part of the willow is used internally. It "gave the heart bread" or helps with heartburns. The bark of the willow is where the good, effective stuff is. By chewing on the leaves and bark, or maybe even making a tea from this tree, all the pains, cramps, headaches, internal inflammation, and soreness will go away. If that does not seem amazing, think of all the diseases, infections, and conditions in which inflammation was a key symptomwe got the cure, in something just as simple and elegant as the Willow Tree!

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