Medicines in GULAG

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Millions of Soviet citizens were put into prison camps during Stalin ruling. Sometimes doctors, who were also convicted, managed to cure themselves and people around them with simplest recipes. Here are some effective recipes, that are believed to exist even after citizens' releasing: Doctor Mokhnach, convicted for 10 years, invented medicine to cope with dysentery inside his camp: iodine and potato peels, that are rich with starch, made together powerful astringent and disinfecting mass. Burn a piece of birch bark, spread the coal on the bread and eat it - you won't have pyrosis, because it creates strongly alkaline medium inside a stomach. Bolied pine needles protect you from scurvy, because they are full of vitamin C. Strong tea brew (without sugar) was used as desinfecting and wound healing remedy. Temporary relief from a toothache was a result of a wrist bandage with crushed garlic. Brain was "distracted" from the toothache and "switched over" to the pain that caused burning wrist with garlic. I am sure i wouldn't have survived there in that time