Rural people, especially the elderly, are mostly illiterate. A lot of knowledge comes from the information of the older generation, and the older generation knows less about it. However, the elderly in rural areas don't care about this. They will think that I have clearly seen what disease this prescription has cured before, but in fact their own memories have been deviated for a long time.
In the past, in rural areas, the medical level was very backward. The villages are far away from each other and there are few people. If something can't be cured for a while, there is no way to send it to a big city for treatment. Therefore, some people treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor and use some remedies that they have come up with. Some people are in good health and their diseases are getting better, so the villagers think the folk prescription has played a role and the news has spread.
I remember one winter, my mother-in-law got a bottle of snow water from nowhere, saying it was an excellent thing for her baby to drink. At that time, my baby was not sick, only 3 years old. I couldn't refuse my mother-in-law, so I asked her to give her some. I didn't expect the child to wake up during a nap, vomiting and diarrhea. The situation was very serious. She went to the hospital and took a few days to get better. My mother-in-law regretted it then. She said that she would never believe these remedies again, which really hurt people.
Afterwards, I was speechless. I asked her who she heard it from. She said that some people in the street say that drinking snow water is good for keeping fit and enhancing immunity. I asked her what the basis was, but she didn't know. She just said that people said it was a folk prescription, and everyone passed it on like this. Now I understand that there is no scientific basis at all. It's all because rural people love to chat too much, like to get together, drag their parents to embellish what they hear, and people who listen to it believe it, and gradually believe it.
To tell the truth, in the past, the rural areas were really inconvenient in transportation and backward in medical care, so many folk prescription rumors were kept in mind by many old people. But now the roads in rural areas have been repaired, rural people have medical insurance, and it is convenient and economical to go to regular hospitals to see a doctor. Even many people drive cars, so it is convenient to go to the hospital. In my opinion, don't trust these remedies any more. If you are sick, go to the clinic and look around the city. How can you cure the disease by relying on the folk remedies of several illiterate old people?