The broadcaster is claiming the display has the prospective to uncover a miracle cure and save the NHS a large pot of money. This is plainly a load of nonsense, but it makes for entertaining tv, and is a helpful reminder that behind each previous wives’ tale, there is a small pipette of truth.
For instance, the previous adage that you must chew on some ginger to cure travel sickness is grounded in scientific actuality. As lengthy ago as 1982, a research identified that ginger was superior to dimenhydrinate, a frequently used movement-sickness drug, for reducing nausea. Chewing on parsley genuinely does support poor breath since it is made up of chlorophyll, a tiny-recognized breath deodoriser. Mashed brown apples may possibly nicely be capable to end diarrhoea, thanks to the pectin identified in the fruit, which can soak up water from the intestines.
But potentially the strangest remedy is the use of duct tape to remedy verrucas. It sounds as preposterous as applying scorching glass cups to your skin to draw out damaging “humours” – something from the era of mad king George III that bizarrely has returned to favour in Hollywood. It is believed that Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston are fans of cupping. I await the return of leeches.
But back to the duct tape. One patient featured on Monday night’s programme said he had had a verruca for eight years and been unable to shift it till he caught duct tape more than the offending region. Hey presto! It disappeared.
Dr Ellie Cannon, a London GP who is 1 of the programme’s judges, mentioned none of the panel could agree as to why it worked, but all agreed that it appeared to do so. One particular concept is that the duct tape starves the verruca of oxygen. She says: “I know of a handful of physicians who have commenced recommending it to individuals.”
Several in the healthcare profession are supportive of consumers raiding their backyard or kitchen for residence cures – as lengthy as they vaguely know what they are carrying out. Dr Stephen Amiel, the editor of The Doctor’s Book of House Treatments, has said: “I feel we are all a minor also drug-hungry, and assume to get a pill for each unwell – anything medical doctors are partly accountable for. A whole lot of the outdated, sensible remedies can be just as successful, cheaper and often have no side-effects.”
Dr Cannon says her surgery is often clogged up by sufferers with minor coughs and aches that should be “home-cured”, rather than treated with a prescription.
One point is specified. In an age when the bizarrest healthcare situation generates thousands of words of in-depth discussion on the web, there will usually be somebody willing to experiment with a house remedy – even if it does involve the device box, rather than the medicine cabinet.
Old wives" tales: First apply the duct tape...
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