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“He who shares my bread and salt is not my enemy!”

Saying of Bedouins (North African Arabs)

Epilepsy

Huge progress has been made in this direction.

Many medicines are available nowadays.

From purely chemical research, modern pharmacology is interested nowadays more in natural products.

A lot has to be still described.

Heat predisposes to seizures, such as for instance with high fever, especially in children.

In desertic regions temperatures exceed 50°C.

My geography teacher, whose father had served in the Afrika corps, was explaining us that soldiers were cooking eggs on their tanks in the sun.

Animals living in desertic regions have adapted and developed curious particularities.

Some have cushions of fat on their heads.

But a fact gone unrecognized in Sahara, is that Bedouins are giving to their herds ground kernels of dates to eat.

Perhaps there is more there about this fact than simply economy and use of valuable fiber carbohydrates.

I wonder whether this fact does not hide some millennial ancestral knowledge, as far as I remember, animals from those countries do not have huge cushions on their heads.