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[Stefan li Rous]

Oh! "doodle-bugs"!! Thare common in some places here in Texas.

Now to go dig out the original message and see if this is something
I want to make. 

Thanks, Cindy.

Stefan

> <snip> >Remedy for pain of the flank/midsection
> >> >      Take nine woodlice/cochineals of some that walk
> >> under
> >> >the orange trees that, in arriving to them, make
> >> themselves
> >> >ball-shaped (1).

> Woodlice are sow bugs, "small crustaceans used in medicine".(Cassel's
> Spanish Dict.) "Any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans,
> chiefly of the genera Oniscus and Porcellio, commonly found under logs or
> stones and having an oval, segmented body." (American Heritage Dict.)
> 
> We have them in NY/NJ.  If you touch them they curl up in a little ball, &
> you can play with them like marbles.
> 
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/woodlice/photos/oniscus_asellus.html - a picture of 1 kind
> http://www.dryad.demon.co.uk/julies/woodlice.htm - Woodlice page
> http://www.homeoint.org/allen/o/onis.htm - homeopathy page using woodlice
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Cindy

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