Username: Rdze
Name: Passionate,
but she goes by Pasha and P.A.
Gender: Female
Tell me something: {Source}Things the incas used potatoes for:
Placed raw slices on broken bones to promote healing
Carried them to prevent rheumatism
Ate with other foods to prevent indigestion.
Measured time: by correlating units of time by how long it took for potatoes to cook.
Various folk remedies recommend using potatoes:
Treat facial blemishes by washing your face daily with cool potato juice.
Treat frostbite or sunburn by applying raw grated potato or potato juice to the affected area.
Help a toothache by carrying a potato in your pocket.
Ease a sore throat by putting a slice of baked potato in a stocking and tying it around your throat.
Ease aches and pains by rubbing the affected area with the water potatoes have been boiled in.