" SIETE CUEROS " - REMEDY
Colombia / Santa Marta
Glass container filled with dried wood splinters from seven different types of wood with medicinal properties. The vessel is filled with Rum for use so that an alcoholic extract of the active ingredients stored in the wood is generated. The " Siete Cueros " ("Seven Skins") Remedy is used externally to treat wounds, strains, muscular pain, skin deseases and can also be ingested against colds, cough, flu and indigestion.
" SEA - SNAIL - OIL " - OINTMENT
Colombia / Santa Marta
Salve with healing properties against Rheumatism, Arthritis, Varicose Vein, Bruises and for latter use as Analgesic, Skin Care, Skin Refresher and Sun-Ray-Protector.
Thermoactive Healing Cream with essential extracts and Cannabis ingredients (Cannabis sativa) for the treatment of colds, muscle and tendon pain, bruises ans sprains
Thermoactive Healing Cream with essential extracts and Coca ingredients (Erythroxyloum coca) for the treatment of colds, muscle and tendon pain, bruises ans sprains
Himalaya Rock Salt
Sal de Lahore - Sal del Himalaya - Sal de Roca
Rock Salt from Punjab Region in Pakistan. The Himalaya Rock Salt is harvested primarily in Khewra Salt Mine, Jehlum District, Pakistan, in the foothills of the Salt Range Mountains of the Pothohar Plateau. The production amount for 2015/16 is given by the producer as 419,201.033 tons.
The mineral composition of Kewhra Mine Salt consists in 96-99 % Sodium-Chloride (NaCl) equivalent as cooking salt. The impurities consist in Calcium, Iron, Zinc, Chromium, Magnesium, Sulfate, beneath others. Some pink or red colour giving impurities (Iron, Iron Oxide) have to be retrieved from the salt by purification process before consuming it. Those impure salts are not suitable for industrial use or human consume without previous purification.
The rock salt is used in Artcraft, for example to produce salt-lamps that distribute an orange light and sometimes are used in rituals.
References also mention the use of Himalaya Rock Salt to line the walls of Spa (Therapeutic Thermal Bath Rooms), motivated by the believe, that the salt accumulates in the air for purposes of salt-inhalation spa-treatments - compareable to the salt-inhaltion treatments in german "graduation-towers" (Gradier-Werke, Salinen) in certain Spa-towns (Bad Nauheim, Bad Salzhausen, Bad Salzschlirf, etc.).
Rock Salt Slabs are also used to produce cooking plates, dinner serving dishes or drinking glasses. The latter are known als "Tequila-Shot-Glasses" where inside small amounts transfer to the drink and alter it´s flavour profile.
A certain ritual meaning is attributed to the Himalaya Rock Salt also in it´s depiction as "kosher salt" what assigns to it an importance for traditional kosher food preparation ceremonies in Jewish culture.
The comercial distribution of Himalaya Rock Salt in Germany is surrounded by the myth, that the salt generates specific health benefits for the body and organism of it´s consumer. This concept is strenghtend by the principal believe in health-beneficious effects of nature products inside the population.
The second image displays the amazing hygroscopic capacity of the salt to absorb air humidity in it´s body. It shows the water amount released over one night from the salt block, what documents also the unnatural high air humidity inside the CID Institute Museum saloons.
Popular Magic
Popular Magic has an important role in native societies, where believe and confidence in traditional healing systems is stronger than the attachment to modern, industrial medicine theories and products, that mainly consist in substitution of human beings basic needs. Also the access to modern industrial medicine products and techniques requires a great amount of economic ressources that cannot be delivered by population groups from low level financial ressource management. Peoples Medicine products and techniques are integrated in a whole worldwide system of traditional knowledge about healing and strengthening each other without the need to recover high level financial ressources.
ATTRACT CLIENT SOAP
Product from Venezuela
The Soap is used for ritual washing by a single person that wants to enter in contact with another
MUCHA GENTE LOTION
Product from Venezuela
A Perfume Lotion with similar function as Deodorant Sprays that is used before entering meeting places where greater amounts of people access
DISINHIBITION BATH AND OPENER
Product from Venezuela
Shower Lotion with Magic Significance connected to the believe, that the user will be disinhibited to enter in contact with another person by using this product
RON MADERA (RON COMPUESTO)
Product from Dominican Republic
Infusion Medicament composed by wood-splinters in a glass bottle that have to get overpoured with alcohol (mostly Rum or Whiskey) to extract the medical properties from the timber parts. To the homemade beverage are attributed different healing medical properties depending on the timber species used for the preparation. Mostly the "Composed Rum" - Remedies are used to treat gastrointernal sufferings but also might be used to treat external skin sufferings or wounds.
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