Home Remedy Has a Long History and Is Still Occasionally Used Today Long the staple of many household first aid supplies, the mustard plaster has had an interesting history dating back two thousand or more years. The use of the mustard plant for medicinal purposes goes back several millennia. Mustard was used as both a condiment and medicine by the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and Chinese. The first century CE Greek physician, Dioscorides, prescribed mustard for everything from tonsillitis to epilepsy, and the Romans combined ground mustard seed with vinegar to make an ointment for snakebites and scorpion stings and chewed the seed to relieve toothaches. However, the most common medicinal use of mustard through the centuries was the mustard plaster, first recommended by the father of medicine, Hippocrates, as a treatment for...
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