Stopping foot odour and perspiration

contributed by Ethnomedica 21 Jan | 09:18

My father was a builder and in going to work in hot weather, he always used to place a dock leaf in each boot (veins uppermost). These were taken out on returning home. My father used to say this was good for perspiring feet … he never had bad feet, and he used to walk great distances

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From York (UK) in the 1970s

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