Healing with cabbage

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ARTICLE: Cabbage - Part I

by Dr. John R. Christopher

 

A Dr. Blanc in 1881 wrote the following: " About 1880, a cart driver in a

small French village fell off his wagon and - a frequent accident in

those times - one wheel rolled over his leg.  Two physicians agreed

that amputation was necessary; a surgeon was called into consultation,

he concurred, and the operation was booked for the next morning.  But

at 5 p.m. that day the parish priest, Loviat of Saint-Claude, advised

the patient's mother to cover the injured leg with cabbage leaves. 

Under the influence of this simple dressing, the man slept all night. 

When he awoke, the family and one of the physicians who arrived to

prepare the patient for surgery saw that he could move his leg.  The

cabbage leaves were removed to reveal a leg without swelling and with

improved color.  Eight days later, completely well, the man returned

to work. "

 

The common cabbage has been of vital importance to mankind over the

4,000 years of its cultivation.  The medical use of cabbage, empirical

for centuries, is based upon precise scientific considerations. 

Hippocrates once remarked that physicians shouldn't hesitate to borrow

from folklore that which can be useful in medicine.  We now know, with

sound proof, that the folklore of cabbage has stood the test of time and

scientific experimentation.

 

Two other accounts of the medicinal use of cabbage might be of interest:

A watchmaker suffered for a year with a painful eczema of both hands,

preventing him from working.  The lesions were acutely inflamed, and

the fingernails were separating, about to fall off.  Applications of

cabbage leaves twice daily for a few days brought relief from pain, as

clear fluid drained onto the dressing.  With continued treatment

healing took place within two months.

 

In 1875 a 75 year old man suffered arteriosclerotic gangrene of the

lower right leg and foot.  The skin was black and the front of the

lower leg was decayed.  Following the local application of cabbage

leaf dressings, the skin changed from black to brown to red, and then

returned to its normal healthy color.  Three weeks later, writes

doctor Blanc, there was a considerable improvement.

 

It has not yet been discovered why the cabbage leaf has such remarkable

healing properties.  We only know that the cabbage leaf has a

particular affinity for disease-causing fluids, forcing them from the

tissues.  It even seems that treating small areas of extensive disease

benefits the whole, as distant toxins are removed, the cabbage promotes

healing and scar tissue, thus preventing complications.

 

The long history of cures obtained with cabbage, concern many different

diseases, including simple and complicated injuries, rheumatic pains,

facial neuralgia, headaches, leg ulcer, anthrax, and many others. 

Cabbage - raw in salads, juiced, or steamed - has incomparable virtues

in the most diverse maladies.

 

Hippocrates had a peculiar affection for this vegetable.  Should one

of his patients be seized with a violent colic, he at once prescribed a

dish of boiled cabbage with salt.  Erasistratus looked upon it as a

sovereign remedy against paralysis.  Pythagoras, and other learned

philosophers, composed books in which they celebrated the marvelous

virtues of the cabbage.  Cato claimed that this plant infallibly cures

all diseases; and that he used it as a panacea to preserve his family

from the plague, which, otherwise, would not have failed to reach

them.  It is to the use the Romans made of it, he adds, that they were

able during six hundred years to do without the assistance of

physicians, whom they had expelled from their territories.

 

The Romans used cabbage externally and internally for various illnesses,

as a purgative, disinfectant, and poultice; Roman soldiers applied

cabbage leaves to their wounds.

 

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ARTICLE: Cabbage - Part I

by Dr. John R. Christopher

 

A Dr. Blanc in 1881 wrote the following: " About 1880, a cart driver in a

small French village fell off his wagon and - a frequent accident in

those times - one wheel rolled over his leg. Two physicians agreed

that amputation was necessary; a surgeon was called into consultation,

he concurred, and the operation was booked for the next morning. But

at 5 p.m. that day the parish priest, Loviat of Saint-Claude, advised

the patient's mother to cover the injured leg with cabbage leaves.

Under the influence of this simple dressing, the man slept all night.

When he awoke, the family and one of the physicians who arrived to

prepare the patient for surgery saw that he could move his leg. The

cabbage leaves were removed to reveal a leg without swelling and with

improved color. Eight days later, completely well, the man returned

to work. "

 

The common cabbage has been of vital importance to mankind over the

4,000 years of its cultivation. The medical use of cabbage, empirical

for centuries, is based upon precise scientific considerations.

Hippocrates once remarked that physicians shouldn't hesitate to borrow

from folklore that which can be useful in medicine. We now know, with

sound proof, that the folklore of cabbage has stood the test of time and

scientific experimentation.

 

Two other accounts of the medicinal use of cabbage might be of interest:

A watchmaker suffered for a year with a painful eczema of both hands,

preventing him from working. The lesions were acutely inflamed, and

the fingernails were separating, about to fall off. Applications of

cabbage leaves twice daily for a few days brought relief from pain, as

clear fluid drained onto the dressing. With continued treatment

healing took place within two months.

 

In 1875 a 75 year old man suffered arteriosclerotic gangrene of the

lower right leg and foot. The skin was black and the front of the

lower leg was decayed. Following the local application of cabbage

leaf dressings, the skin changed from black to brown to red, and then

returned to its normal healthy color. Three weeks later, writes

doctor Blanc, there was a considerable improvement.

 

It has not yet been discovered why the cabbage leaf has such remarkable

healing properties. We only know that the cabbage leaf has a

particular affinity for disease-causing fluids, forcing them from the

tissues. It even seems that treating small areas of extensive disease

benefits the whole, as distant toxins are removed, the cabbage promotes

healing and scar tissue, thus preventing complications.

 

The long history of cures obtained with cabbage, concern many different

diseases, including simple and complicated injuries, rheumatic pains,

facial neuralgia, headaches, leg ulcer, anthrax, and many others.

Cabbage - raw in salads, juiced, or steamed - has incomparable virtues

in the most diverse maladies.

 

Hippocrates had a peculiar affection for this vegetable. Should one

of his patients be seized with a violent colic, he at once prescribed a

dish of boiled cabbage with salt. Erasistratus looked upon it as a

sovereign remedy against paralysis. Pythagoras, and other learned

philosophers, composed books in which they celebrated the marvelous

virtues of the cabbage. Cato claimed that this plant infallibly cures

all diseases; and that he used it as a panacea to preserve his family

from the plague, which, otherwise, would not have failed to reach

them. It is to the use the Romans made of it, he adds, that they were

able during six hundred years to do without the assistance of

physicians, whom they had expelled from their territories.

 

The Romans used cabbage externally and internally for various illnesses,

as a purgative, disinfectant, and poultice; Roman soldiers applied

cabbage leaves to their wounds.

 

Printable Version: http://www.herballegacy.com/Cabbage_I.pdf

 

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