My ancestors spoke of diseases as being HOT or COLD. For a cold disease they used a combination of HOT plants and for a HOT disease they used a combination of COLD plants. One such HOT disease was PODAGRA, which we know today as.... Rheumatism, Arthritis, Bursitis, Spondylitis, Neuritis, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Gout etc. PODAGRA was not considered to be a disease in itself, but the manifestation of a condition resulting from disease somewhere else in the body and it was, therefore, most essential to find the underlying cause in order to "put out the fire," Arthritis is a condition caused by the...