Cold Cabbage

I’ve suddenly noticed an increase in folks arriving at my blog via referrals from Dr. John Crippen’s excellent NHS Blog Doctor. I’ve just discovered why: apparently a Dutch woman mentioned to him the folk remedy of using cold cabbage as a cure for mastitis. The good doctor hadn’t come across this before and wondered whether I had come across it in my time here.

 

Um, sorry, I’ve led a sheltered life as far as the mysteries of the female body are concerned. I recall being in a meeting at work discussing the renovation of the office, and seeing marked on the plan a room labelled the milk expressing room. I didn’t have a clue what it meant and so asked. All the women looked at me as though I was mad (clueless, perhaps, but not, I think, mad). At least some of the other men had the graciousness to admit that they didn’t know either, and were glad that I’d asked… I at least had the excuse that I’m gay and don’t have intimate knowledge of the workings of the female body; I dunno what their excuse was.

 

Oh, and I see that some of the commenters on Dr. Crippen’s site have confirmed that indeed cold cabbage is a viable remedy for helping with mastitis. Glad we cleared that up.