Who did we learn healing from?
In Kastamonu, people who knew folk remedies were asked where they had learned them: 78 percent from their parents and village elders, only 8.5 percent from health workers. One of the records is St John’s wort: the fresh flowers are pounded and put on open wounds, or a tea of the flowering herb is drunk for stomach ache, two glasses a day.
Source: Ekrem Sezik, Murat Zor, Erdem Yeşilada, “Traditional Medicine in Turkey II. Folk Medicine in Kastamonu”, International Journal of Pharmacognosy 30(3), 1992 (Sezik, Zor, Yeşilada, Int J Pharmacogn, 1992). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.
Which wound herb?