I wonder how our ancestors coped with pain from diseases thousands of years ago?

hi thetis74, Our ancestors had healthy diet and lived with discipline. They used to follow natural cures for many illness. They are strong in health when compared to health of present generations. They had few diseases when compared to present diseases. The people who can resist to diseases used to live long and the one who cannot resist used to die at their early ages. That's why they used to have more child births but only few used to remain healthy. If a person falls sick, he/she used to take many sore medicines and others used to treat them as untouchables. They used to suffer both internal and external pain. They used to lead hard life.

There are times I have wondered how people did it back in the day before some of the many modern medicines, etc. to help a person get better. Even knowing some of the things I go thru, and the techniques they now use like with the surgery on my veins that used to be a long drawn out procedure to something minor like mine was, and how did they ever heal a wound if it would not heal? Did people just loose limbs, or get serious infections and die? And what did they do to help with pain? Personally I am glad I was not one to had to find out.

Yes I have. There were home remedies of course that would help lessen the feeling of being sick, and help the fever go down, but for those things that escalated or those things not yet known to man, it was difficult. Not only that but doctors were travelling from place to place, sometimes many miles and so it took quite a bit of time to get to and from a place, and that is even if they could get to the person in time. Of course this I am talking about isn't thousands of years ago, thousands of years ago doctor's weren't known, but I suppose there were medicine men and women who knew techniques of gentle healing. Now we have cures for things because of others sufferings, it's a very sad thing but it helps us out too.

Yes it must be tough for them.Some people are even dying of simple diarrhea and more women are just dying from giving birth.My friends and I were discussing about the treatment of communicable diseases like Tuberculosis and Leprosy before modern medicine.It's so sad that sick people were just place in isolation and giving nutritious food,hoping that they will recover from their illness.I even heard that people were burn in those times if they contracted Leprosy.Thanks God were living in this era in which medicines and modern medical equipments are already available.It must be scary to be alive in those periods.

Thousands years ago there are some doctors in our country.Doctors often take the pulse to check the patients .Then they will know what diseases had the patients got.They will use herbal medicine to cure the patients. And anthor is acupuncture,this is very magical.People have acupoints in their body.If you feel somewhere are not comfotable,find the acupoints then push it for 5~10 minutes.Insist for days, you will feel better. Lastly I think for thousands of years ago, disease and malady have no more than now.In that time ,air is fresher than now, food have no transgenosis.And people often hunt to get food.I think this is excercise.Hehe~So in that time ,people's body are better than now.

Don't worry, our ancestors are tough. Unlike people's now days that are getting lazier and lazier. I wonder in the future will our generation become those fat guys in the Movie Wall-E, haha! You know what I mean if you watch Wall-E

I assume they also have their ways. I'm sure they tried their best to cure their sicknesses. As far as I know, they also practiced rituals to cure the sicknesses.

It was a rather different all things considered. We have really come a long way of how we have really treated diseases since the days past. Of course there are just a number of times where its obvious that we still have a rather long way to go, as disease is still a rather prominent part of our lives for sure. With all of the advanced medicine, there is still a lot of pain to cope with. Let us not forget that the life expectancy is rather shorter than it was during those days than it is today. There were a lot of times where the cures were rather unknown a lot of the time. The medication was rather crude at best or just non existent at rather worst. It was something that they rather had to live with, although there are a lot of people who did not live all too long. Still its easy to see that we have come a long way. Still its hard to imagine living in that time, with the lack of treatment with diseases.

I hardly think anyone ever got sick, because I don't even think there was even that many infections/diseases a "long time ago" :). I always thought people claimed witchcraft on someone if they sneezed or something and they'd be hanged. If that's true or not is the real question... haha :)