(Diariklub -Intermediate Text) - Margaret Felder - Arnica - Its cure is still better than the rest!

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 Margaret Felder

Good News in Old Traditions

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Once upon a time, Arnica used to be the most important medicine in everyone's house. There was nothing it wasn't able to treat. It was not only the perfect remedy for everyday scratches and scrapes, but great for sore throats and stomach aches as well. It was indispensable.

But now there are very few people who know it or use it! Arnica seems to have vanished. But, one person who still uses it is Margaret Felder. And, it's all because of her childhood.

Margaret Felder grew up in Poland before the Second World War. And, coming from Warsaw, she spent all her school holidays with her granny in the mountains. And, she loved it. And, it was there that Margaret Felder learned all about the healing powers of plants. And, she was amazed. And, the most important plant of all was the Arnica. And, her grandmother, being a doctor, used Arnica on many of her patients. She knew what she was talking about.

And so, what has become of Arnica now? The good news is that it's still widely available and most pharmacies sell it. Of course, it's not the same as was made in the mountains of Poland, but it works just the same. And, just like Margaret Felder, many people still use it to put all sorrows right.

So, what about you? Why not check Arnica out? No first-aid box should be without it. There's still a great deal of truth in very old cures, and plants have been healing for hundreds of years. And, we are the same as we always have been!

Vocabulary

ailments – Leiden

cure – Heilmittel

first-aid – Erste Hilfe

indispensable – unentbehrlich

once upon a time – Es war einmal . . .

remedy (pl. remedies) - Heilmittel

scratch - Kratze

scrape - Kratze

sore throat - Halsweh

stomach ache – Bauchweh

vanished (to vanish/vanished/vanished) – verschwand

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