I love these stories; all the details of which may or may not be correct.
Looks like "targeted therapy" to use a modern 'sophisticated' term.
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>I am not sure about the laxative and "The bile would get cleared and those
>days none suffered from gal stones." Cleaning the bile right from birth?
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>I thought the laxatives given on a regular basis were to get rid of the worms
>- specially round worms and whip worms and other worms endemic to Goa /
>India. Can someone please give the konakni names for these and other
>parasitic worms commonly seen amchem tempar? Thanks!
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>Regards, GL
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>---------- Albert Desouza
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>Albert writes:- Grandma's medicines are the best. When the child was born
>doctor would tell the mothers to give periodically milk of magnesia. It was
>white milk coloured purgative. It was given once a month. Once the child was
>grown a little bigger castor oil mixed with tea or milk was pushed down our
>throats and when we reached? the age of 7 and above we used to take epsom
>salt.. I did not like the taste but had to take it once a year. I would just
>dump it down my throat in one go and put a sweet in the month and roam up and
>down .I cannot express the feeling here but it was terrible. The whole day was
>then a routine exercise which was more an encounter with the family pig.. But
>the effect was very good. The bile would get cleared and those days none
>suffered from gal stones
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