All-heal
01/10/2005
The origin of the name of the website comes from a very old remedy.

Nicholas Culpeper in the Complete Herbal – the cure of all disorders incident to mankind, published in 1653, says of All heal. “It kills the worms, helps the gout, cramp, convulsions, provokes urine and helps all joint aches. It helps all cold griefs of the head, vertigo the falling-sickness, the lethargy, the wind colic, obstructions of the liver and spleen, stone in the kidneys and bladder. It provokes the terms and expels the dead birth: it is excellent good for the griefs of the sinews, itch, stone, and toothache, the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts and purges choler very gently.” An amazing plant indeed.

As people didn’t travel great distances with ease, mother nature had to provide cures for their ailments on the doorstep. As we know that plants prefer some locations to others the plants in those locations had to have the required curative properties. Culpeper concludes “…whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself when sick, with such things as only grow in England, they being most fit for the English constitution.” Paracelsus the medieval alchemist said “……thus scorpio cures its scorpio (within), realgar [arsenic] its realgar, mercurius its mercurius…..”

Samuel Hahnemann who developed homoeopathic medicine used Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian Bark) for his first remedy. He had read about the curative properties in relation to the ravages of malaria. From his reading of the poisonings of the drug quinine he realised that substances which cause symptoms to occur in a healthy person will cure those symptoms when they occur in a sick patient.