Utilization of Food and Simple Medical Cures
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Our mothers-in-law were the custodians of food. Wheat and buckwheat flour were stored in clay vessels. [Wheat grains] were grounded in mills (yaig) powered by glacier water. Once the time-consuming grinding was done, bags made from animal skin were used to transport on foot wheat and buckweat flour back home and to hand it over to our mothers-in-law or mothers. Thereafter [whenever necessary] they gave us wheat flour or buckwheat flour with all due respect, and we used it to make bread31 and eat it with love all year-round.
When children and old member of household fell sick, the people used to make soup [from ground peach and apricot seeds] and gave it to them. Especially at the onset of winter people became sick and suffered from severe coughing which caused old, weak people to die. Those who survived often suffered a lot of pain as there was no cure for it. [In those occasions] ground peach kernels and herbal plant shani shoto were mixed, kneaded into dough and baked into bread as a cure for sick children and old people.
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