During the hostilities between Spain and France from 1808 to 1813, Spanish doctors on the front lines made a discovery that was tantamount to revealing a secret military weapon. They developed a bitter green drink made from ground olive leaves and administered it as a therapeutic drink to wounded soldiers suffering from high fevers. This drink reduced the patients' dangerously elevated temperatures from over 104 F to a low, harmless level below 101 F. Therefore, even the feverish Spanish soldiers were able to quickly advance into the combat ranks once again and push back to their French counterparts. Observing these new attacks, in 1811 the French medical corps sent undercover agents. The military doctors wanted to know what was happening among the Spanish. Upon discovering the medical secret, French surgical officers quickly adapted the same pulverized green olive leaf drink as part of their own febrifuge (fever-reducing) remedy. The drink worked so effectively that they prescribed olive leaf concentrate as a substitute for cinchona bark, which had previously been their standard febrifuge.
From the book Olive Leaf Extract
DR. Morton Walker #oliveoil #oliveextract #febrifugo #curiosity
