A Guardian.com article brought the South Pacific Island of Kiribati and other near Islands to global observation. It showed how these folk could have kept out the COVID virus infections for two years and one flight on January 22, 2022, left them with multiple infections, ongoing. I am sure that the flight conformed to all the CDC’s protocols or whatever COVID-mandates required- what was being done before, that was not done then. Disease across national spaces have always been a subject that has tormented nations, from the stowaway infected (by human standards) rats, that have on more than one instant infected an unconscious population, wiping out vast numbers across multiple nations, like the Medieval Plague. But humans are not innocent. The terms chemical and biological warfare emerged from warring nations of the old world, propelling infected bodies into the water reserve of nations, particularly under siege using siege weapons, this philosophy of inflicting mass death was never abandoned. This is a subject that requires a delve into a bitter and not so unchanged human world.

What is necessary today and in the context of this month, is to understand the interactions of age-old formulas, proven and merged into cultural practices. We should recognise, explore where diversions have affected usage and what retains its immediate value to us to use a reference for historical observation from the age of the MOORS, an essential element of social life. In great contrast with the Moorish regard for bathing and hygiene was the contempt, which much of Western Europe had for bathing and physical cleanliness. Burckhardt confirms, like a number of other historians of Adalus. That Catholic Conquistadors after the Moorish age, destroyed Moorish Bathes that enforced bathing as a custom” see Terence McLaughlin’s Historical Study: Dirt: A Social History As Seen Through the Uses And Abuses of Dirt: “What is certain is that the Moorish [Bismaristans]-‘Hospitals’ were equipped by medical Officials who were knowledgeable in such things as blood circulation, measles and smallpox. See- “Golden Age of the Moor,” edited by Ivan Van Sertima. Thus, the necessity for the Bathes were not driven by religion, but by medical knowledge. In the Hollywood Movie-Documentary on ‘Nostradamus, the Moorish physician who accompanied him throughout plague-saturated lands stands out but was never named, though obvious to all. The courage of many of the medical guilds of Europe of that day must be applauded. They risked the horrors of the inquisition to preserve to circulate – even smuggle secretly into academies, Moorish medical manuscripts before the church burned them; Jan Carew referred to it as” attempts at an Intellectual holocaust”-see-Golden Age of the Moor Thus, the interaction and eventual conquest of Mesoamerica by Columbus, and the Conquistadors who followed him is attributed by scholarship in the following. “Diseases, especially smallpox, measles, even the common cold, wrought havoc with New World peoples. Scholars believe that 50 to 90 percent of the Indians in North and South America died of diseases introduced from Europe: see “Seeds of Change 500 years since Columbus”-Smithsonian Institutional Press.

The mere fact that today economics is forcing many of us to return to home treatments, of course with the support of useful modern aids, is significant enough that we construct a catalogue of home practices, backed by research. For instance, what are the properties of ‘Clay’ I knew family friends who during pregnancy eat clay, and go unchecked because she was not the first in the family, the children are alive, healthy and productive. What is this ancient medical mystery of clay? The inquisitional purges of Europe were centred on herbalists, and methods of fruit and botanical treatment which was described as ‘witchcraft’ even in Guyana, not so long ago treatment by village knowledge was viewed as “Obeah,” but the enslaved were wise. They quietly on the plantations of the three colonies of Guiana planted the healing tamarind trees. I’ve witnessed successful baths for skin rash, smallpox and a kind of hair rash, using tamarind leaves. In closing, what could be the therapeutic benefits of sleeping on a daubed surface? No doubt this would be rare in Guyana today, but it wasn’t difficult to fall asleep on ‘Buck-Mai’s’ dried daubed bottom house while living on the coast. I boasted this to a relative who had come to visit me; she informed me that in Africa, based on transferred knowledge, Africans also practised “daubing”- (Cow Dung and mud ); only she informed me that in some parts of Africa they used Camel dung, which is also used as fuel. These methods sustained our people. Should we not explore and also patent our national heritage?