Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.

You wouldn’t pirate a medicine, would you?

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I would if I could!

    I will say, there’s something scary about crafting your own medicine, I’d expect medicine to be highly precisely crafted in labs by highly educated professionals and that it’d be difficult and perhaps dangerous to make and take your own medicine. I could be wrong.

    The things they write in the article are amazing, people can make their own life savine cure to hepatitis C for about 70 USD for their whole home made treatment, that just works? It seems too good to be true without any caveats.

    Oh and, final thought, “Four Thieves Collective”? They really don’t beat around the bush. I like that

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      Four Thieves vinegar was supposedly used by four grave robbers to protect them from bubonic plague, each thief added their own herb to the infusion. It apparently worked well enough, they negotiated their freedom by giving up the recipe.

      Nowadays, people vary the herbs, garlic is the constant.

      It’s no secret herbs like oregano (most savory herbs actually) have antimicrobial properties. When you’re poor and a doctor’s visit is a day or more lost pay, the daycare is paid regardless of attendance, then the uninsured cost of the visit and pharmaceuticals, you learn.