Between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries, a curious tradition flourished at the intersection of politics, religion, and medicine. In the courts of England and France, […]
Category: Curious Cures
The Fever Cure – A Mad Genius’s Gambit Against Syphilis
The air in Vienna’s psychiatric wards was thick with the scent of sweat and carbolic acid. Men and women—some raving, others eerily still—lined the halls […]
The Vine That Remembers: A Tale of Amazonian Healing
By the banks of the Ucayali River, where the night hums with wings and the trees lean in like elders listening, a young man named […]
The Bone and the Breath: A Tale of Ancient African Healing
Long before syringes and surgical gloves, before prescriptions were printed on carbon paper, healing in many African cultures was a matter of rhythm, spirit, and […]
The Two Lives of Strychnine: A Medical and Homeopathic Perspective
It begins with a tree. In the dense, dry forests of India and Southeast Asia grows Strychnos nux-vomica, a twisted tree whose seeds gleam like […]