Here’s a super easy one —lessay you’ve been in Mexico and you think you’ve picked up a bad parasite:
You like papaya? OK, chew up the peppery, yucky seeds in the center that you always igore and swallow them. They look like deer poop. Yeah, they taste bad —LIKE MEDICINE.
In most cases in a day or so you’ll be fine and free of parasites.
Bill and wait time —ZERO.
Oh cmon some $300 pills and a bad case of the runs are so much better.
“Limey” —they call Brits that. It’s cuz they had a global navy when no one else did, and on their long voyages with no fruit they’d have low Vitamin C and get scurvy.
But finally they learned to suck on limes and with that citrus source of Vitamin C the scourge of scurvy was cured for the first time, right?
Wrong:
Hundreds of years earlier Native Americans showed them that a tea made from the inner bark of quaking ASPEN would clear up the problem, lickety-split:
Tonto knew what to do, instantly.
But ya know what? The Brit docs said it WASN’T SCIENTIFIC. And, uh....there was this little matter of naked, grunting BROWN PEOPLE invented it, and stuff...
But I’m SURE the Brits wouldn’t be like that, right?
So they went back to swilling rum and having their teeth fall out for a copla more centuries.
BUT I’M SURE ***WE*** WOULDN’T BE SO STUPID, RIGHT?