Dandelion Diuretic
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia, Aug. 20.
AS a child in the “primer” grades at school, we’d a superstition that if you smelt a dandelion, you’d—so to speak!—dream that night that you were drowning. Well, I’m beginning, nearly 40 years after, to suspect there’s something in the belief. . .
The Mangaians boil the seeds of the puff-ball on the “pulia” to produce a native medicine for the cure, inter alia, of gonorrhea: and, more particularly, of kidney troubles. I have tested it for the latter; and am able to vouch for the effectiveness of the water in which dan delion seeds have been seethed, as a kidney stimulant. It works—generously S.
Yet this ultra-simple remedy is neglected by European medical science.
The old “ta’unga” herbs are worth look ing into. What about some botanical re search, and'less of coal-tar derivatives, Dr. D and Dr. E ? It would save the Administration money, too and that’s something these days!
Major J. I. Merrylees, who was District Officer at Kieta, Bougainville, TNG, when the invasion occurred, and who had a remarkable escape, was married in Bris bane recentlv to Miss Francis Wilkin.