February 3rd, 2009
Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine.” And so I have.
Yesterday one of my kids was riding down a steep hill when her bike went into speed wobble mode. Following in the car, I watched the progression from wobble to awful crash. Within 5 minutes, she had a huge bump on her head that had gone a shade of purple.
We iced her forehead and gave her some homeopathic pills I keep on hand. Then I got out the chives. Just the day before I had read about chives and their effect on bruising…and we had some in the fridge from the CSA box harvest.
Call it maternal instinct, but I had the thought to first chew the chives and then cough them up and give them to my little one. I mashed them with a wooden handle instead. Placing the mashed chives under the ice pack, I gave her some chives to eat as well.
She spent a couple of hours on the couch smelling like a baked potato and got up looking scraped, but dandy. I don’t always know how it works, but it does, just like food as medicine has for thousands of years.
Enjoy thy chives.