On 10 August 2024, an employee of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve Usmanova D.O. held an event on “Secrets of ancient medicine” for 4 pupils of Bolgar secondary school № 2.
Medical knowledge in Volga Bulgaria was based on the traditions of folk medicine. Special importance was given to the healing properties of honey, birch broom, herbs, meat of various animals and birds, belemnites. Among the archaeological materials there are surgical instruments used by Bolgar healers (tweezers, lancets).
During the event, the young guests of the reserve visited the museum “Healer’s house”. They learnt the history of medicine development in the Muslim world, interaction with the medicine of Volga Bulgaria, as well as the peculiarities of the development of medicine in Bulgaria itself. Kids shared their knowledge in the field of folk medicine, told about their personal experience of such treatment. At the end of the event, there was a master class on making a folk patchwork doll-herbalist, which the children took as a souvenir.

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