People have always had headaches. Headaches in a problem that people have all over the world. In some coltures, the people use special herbs to cure headaches. For example, Native American Indians use plants with a chemical found in aspirins. Today people in the developed world take a tablet toi treat headache. But what happened in the past? Thousand years ago medicine men made holes in the heads of people because they believed this would let the headache out. In Ancient Egypt, medicine man used to tie a ceramic crocodile which was filled with herbs, to the head of the patient. We aren't sure why. In the Middle Ages, the people that go to doctors were usually treated with leechs. They were put on the patient's body near the place where the pain was. For people with headaches the lech was put on the neck.
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