THE SEAWEED CURE FOR COLDS
Seaweed has wonderful-healing and antiseptic properties. If you are a sufferer from catarrh, the following simple remedy is recommended Gather some fresh weed of the bulbous variety, squeeze it hard between the palms of your hands, and inhale, sniffing hard for a minute or two. Repeat this at intervals during the day, and you will he surprised at the result. This is because seaweed contains iodine, in combination with valuable healing salts, such as potassium and sodium. Several kinds of seaweed have been used in cases of consumption for hundreds of years past. One old hook published in 1730 recommends “sea-holly” as being an excellent remedy for “meagre and consumptive people” ; and at one time many places along the coast carried on a regular business of gathering the “weed” and candying it. Peasants who live along the western coast of Ireland, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, treat consumption with a certain kind of seaweed known ns carrigeen moss.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10319, 31 January 1927, Page 6
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