Head lice alternative treatment; all natural herbal recipe for relief from heal lice problems.

Very useful for those travelling to regions with low hygienic standards, disaster or wild areas, or war zones.

The presence of lice can be associates to a general lack of hygiene; this is considered as an illness called pediculosis. But in the past, without insecticides, disinfectants and hygienic standards, the presence of lice was commonplace.

The European aristocrats often had some small hammers made in gold or silver, and profusely decorated; in many medieval and renaissance pictures it is possible to see the proud nobles and merchants carrying these little hammers hanging from their clothes as a symbol of status. They were designed to kill fleas and lice.

We have to consider that these were the fortunate individuals who could afford to have tools of such sort.Indeed, taking a bath was not exactly well seen: if you did take a bath, you were often considered to be effeminate. However, the Europoean explorers and civilised gentlemen were so surprised by how their talents went unappreciated by the Indian women they found in America since the arrival of the conquerors in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

So, since Indian women did not appreciate the presence and company of - indeed - very civilised (in their own view, that is), they proceeded very politely to rape and kill them. The problem was that the Indians found the smell of the Europeans, and their hygienic standards, absolutely nauseating. Of course, civilisation brought lice as well as all sorts of venereal diseases; the only one known to the meso-american Indians was the 'nananua' but later on, they meet a panoply of those.

However, we have witness reports that gynaecologists in Switzerland, as late as the late twentieth century, used to recommend their patients not to bath to often, for it could be unhealthy. Now, being the old world the cradle of wisdom, civilisation and everything good in this world, lice - indeed - also left their mark in literature, history and science: it was a common belief supported by allegedly scientific evidence that lice were created in people's heads.

Concretely, they were thought to pop into existence thorough the back of the neck because on seeing corpses, some sages concluded that as lice, fleas and other little passengers were about to abandon ship and jump to another living thing, they tended to concentrate in the back of the head and neck. In their view, they were returning to their source, but in fact, what happens is that the back and base of the neck are the last parts of the body to cool down after death of the body, at least in humans.

But then, lice took part in the discovery of the wonders of the world too: when the first Christians in order to spread whatever they intended to, reached Iceland, they marvelled at the span of the day during the summer. Being near the Arctic polar circle, nights are very short in Iceland during the summer, and just barely gloomy, but never completely dark for long.

So, some anonymous distributor of Western love, wisdom and civilisation wrote that the days were sol long and light so abundant, that - in his words - anyone could perform at night even the most delicate jobs, like pulling lice off shirts and clothes.

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