Discover the natural remedies used by Mary Seacole. Mary’s treatment for cholera involved mustard plaster, emetics (which make you sick), calomel (mercury) and water boiled with cinnamon.
She would often grind them in a pestle and mortar, mix them in a bowl or heat them over a fire. Play the interactive here. Screenshot from Mary Seacole Interactive Game.
Herbal Remedy Matching Game: pupils select picture cards so that illustrations relating to Mary Seacole and herbal remedies are correctly paired up. The remedies Mary Seacole and many doctors of the time used were counter-productive, promoting dehydration by vomiting, bowel purging, and sweating. She also dealt with a yellow fever outbreak in Jamaica. Some of the ingredients she used included: • Aloe Vera –mixed to help heal cuts and wounds. Mary Seacole used many herbal medicines and remedies when looking after soldiers. Mary Seacole, used herbal medicines and other remedies including lead acetate and mercury chloride. In Crimea during 1854–5 Mary Seacole demonstrated that her home-grown Jamaican practice of hygiene, healthy food, natural remedies and kindness – had a lot more to offer than traditional medicine, making her nursing practice a far more modern, holistic one that people might have imagined. Print and distribute this sheet in which students will be asked which herbal remedies Mary Seacole used, how, and for what purpose. Follow MyLearning . Read our newsletter for a heads up on new and upcoming resources .
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• Lemongrass –boiled to help a fever. Interactives about Mary Seacole - Meet Mary; Matching Herbal Remedies memory game; and Make a Medicine.
Also features an interactive glossary. Mary used herbal remedies she had learnt from her mother to treat the soldiers. Mary’s mother taught her traditional African and Caribbean remedies for illnesses including cholera, diarrhoea and fever. Latest. Make a Medicine: correctly match medicine and equipment to treat patients with a variety of complaints . Host your existing resources on MyLearning, or get help developing new … She also looked after people during a yellow fever outbreak in Jamacia. Use this resource in conjunction with the Mary Seacole Words Card, PowerPoint, and other Mary Seacole resources.
Her fame as a medical practitioner grew and she was soon carrying out operations on people suffering from knife and gunshot wounds. These include lead acetate and mercury chloride.
She used pomegranate juice to treat diarrhoea. In 1850 Kingston was hit by a cholera epidemic.