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My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.