Another modern version of an ancient remedy takes advantage of the Nei-kuan acupressure point on the wrist.
That may sound like a new idea, but it is a revival of an ancient remedy.
The enthusiasm for exercise represents a revival of an ancient remedy.
"It's an ancient African herbal remedy," he said.
Now, though, the ancient remedy has suddenly vaulted to international celebrity.
An ancient remedy for constipation is to eat the fruit with brackish water.
As a student, she had studied herbs and ancient herbal remedies with zealous interest.
By the early nineteenth century, the ancient remedy of deodands had largely fallen into desuetude.
"For the white man's diseases," he explains, "you've got to go to the roots of the old white world and find the ancient remedies."
One of the latest examples is celery, an ancient herbal remedy put to the test in the laboratory by researchers on high blood pressure.