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Kat:

This is an interesting side note that I found while researching info on herbs

Herbs Through the Ages ~

If you were a wealthy English noble in the Middle Ages, you bathed right on schedule every three weeks. But a peasant who had to haul and heat his water found this frequency quite excessive. It was also believed that bathing, particularly in winter, led to chills and ultimately death by pneumonia. This abhorrence for water caused historians to dub this period the "age of the great unwashed."

Imagine the cold winter nights when many slept two or three to a bed for warmth, enclosed by a shroud of thick bed curtains. Body odor became so strong that everyone who could pay for it wore heavy doses of perfume. If you couldn't afford such a luxury you simply slept among cuttings from very strong-smelling plants.
(Oh there's more http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_herbs/article/0,1785,HGTV_3595_1395883,00.html )

I think I'll go have a modern day luxury bath 

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Deborah-Leigh:
Hot water is a luxury! Fridges, lights....internet 8) and those lowly weeds that become our natural resources that are duplicated in laboratories for mass production and conversion into pain killers (Poppie seeds for Opium production). We can not even begin to make what God so lavishly provides.

WE make the insecticides that create the toxins. We create the food enhancers and dowse our live stock with growth hormones for faster growth cycles and that produces seven foot people...good for basket ball sports competitions! Ha! WE are so civilized aren't we.... :D

One day...some day...it will be a better day. Maybe then medicine will not be so expensive and decay and disease not so rampant. When wholeness comes to the earth then the health and healing industry might no longer be a multi billion dollar industry. Then teeth will gnash!....but prevention is better than cure and dicipline and knowledge better than mans ways.

Lovely thread and insights back to basics! The simple unclutterd pure lives.........serentiy, wisdom, peace tending to God's Garden not mans obsessions.

Just a few thoughts.....

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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