Ask Prince Charles what he might recommend to aid digestion, and he will probably suggest you try some of his Duchy Originals Detox Tincture, which features a mixture of dandelion and artichoke.
To most of us it may sound a little, shall we say, â??alternativeâ??. But when you consider what British royals relied on to improve their health 300 years ago, it seems positively sensible. As recently as the end of the 17th century, our monarchy regularly swallowed human flesh, skull, bone, blood and skin, concocting bloodcurdling potions to cure their ailments.
They thought nothing of rubbing human fat obtained from fresh corpses into aching joints or wrinkles. They were, in fact, what I like to call â??medicinal cannibalsâ??, who used â??corpse medicineâ?? as often as we would use paracetamol.
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