TRADITIONAL THERAPIES:
All over the world, since time began and people fell ill, the various cultures have used natural remedies for those illnesses.
These Mongolian remedies are from Buddhist sutras and other texts and are still widely used by many Mongolians.
Sty: touch the troubled eye with the opposite knee, seven times.
Aching teeth: put a drop of animal urine on the sore tooth.
Infant pneumonia: wrap the chest of the child in a vodka soaked bandage.
Constipation: drink half a cup of warm urine, preferable from an eight year old girl.
Women with a crick in the neck: kneel before a handsome man, bow your head to his knee, the pain will be gone within 24 hours.
Sore eye and ear: place one drop of animal urine on the sore eye or ear.
Nervous tic; collect dried animal bones from the open steppe and boil them, then place in a bath, bathe in this mixture daily, for seven days.
Scars: lightly rub a drop of animal or human urine on the scar several days running
Babies not sleeping at night: put large salt crystals into the fire. When they sizzle, hand the child over coals.
Fever: drink half a cup of warm urine from a reddish brown cow.
Warts: tie a red cotton thread around the wart then carefully remove the tread and hang it on the hinge of a door, after a few days, the wart will disappear.
Insanity: drink half a cup of warm urine, preferable from a fox. Or try slaughtering an owl, falcon, bear, wolf, or lynx, boil the meat and eat immediately. Another way is to cut someone’s armpit hair, then burn it, mix the ash with water and drink it.
Dog bite: take some hair from the dog, burn it then place it on the wound.
Big warts: rub with a dirty old animal bone
Sore throat: suck on a copper rod for two or three days.
Diabetes: warm a small piece of copper to reddish color, crush it to a powder then swallow it.
Broken arm or finger: vigorously polish the inside of a copper bracelet or ring, then wear it on the broken bone for eight hours.