[Artemisia] A New Discussion - SCA Skills in a Modern Plague

[Jackman-Brink, Julia]

I think another health consequence of "modern times" is frankly our diet
and lifestyle.  There wasn't prevalent and endemic health issues such as
diabetes, heart disease and cancer in the middle ages.  Sure they were
present, but the medieval lifestyle wasn't backed up with a high
sugar/low exercise couch potato lifestyle. They didn't have large
amounts of the population, including children being significantly
overweight which leads to many of the above issues.  Diets and
lifestyles were very different.  

I think taken in account, after a world changing event the general
population health should improve from those known health issues. Diet
and exercise it already a regimen for modern sufferers so over the years
with a change back to an agrarian/working lifestyle things should
reverse. Sure, there will be a huge die-off of the current population
with modern health issues, but that is to be expected when a loss to
resource event happens. 

Juliana

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In one of my books and herbal info I found where "One cup of String bean
tea 
is equal to at least one unit of insulin"
Now you just have to figure out how to make stringbean tea and you may
have 
a chance.
The book also says that if you mix peeled Pumpkin seeds,  Fragrant
valerian 
root and bilberry leaves in equal parts and steep 1 tbsp in 1 cup
boiling 
water and drink one cup in the course of a day unsweetened it can help
to 
improve sugar tolerance.
    Another recipe it gives is to mix bilberry leaves in equal parts
with 1 
or 2 of the following : Bean pods, nettle, milfoil, European centaury, 
Dancelion or Blackberry leaves.  Parboil 1 tbsp in 1/2 cup water for 10
min. 
Drink 1 to 1 1/2 cups a day unsweetened but not with in an hour of meals

before or after.

I have no idea how or if they work but if your looking at death it may
be 
worth a try.
Annabella
>> Can insulin be frozen? I am also diabetic, but not insulin
>> dependent, so I do not know.
>>
>>
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