Satisfying Andy Licious, you are pure genius. 
I’m curious. It seems most posters are assuming it was taken orally. How do we know that it wasn’t applied differently?
Per the food, question, I would guess he got the idea from your previous post…
The Egyptians used dung for everything: food, medicine, poison, make-up, worship
For Blake I’d already mentioned teas and herbal poultices, but this site goes further. Also, here’s an article orginally dated 4/14/03 about how ancient Chinese remedies are used to treat SARS. A doctor, one Dr.B.G.Krishna Swamy, posts on the bottom of the forum about the effectiveness of Ayurvedic medicine in treating SARS. I personally dunno how effective all this is, but there you go.
j.c.: All shit is not created equal.
There IS a difference between human shit and animal dung, especially if you have ever had to work with either as fertilizer on a farm or organic garden (as I have). Human shit – or the dung of any animal that’s carnivorous, like pigs, dogs and cats – STINKS to high heaven and is typically loaded with bacteria, parasites, worms, etc. It can be used as fertilizer as is but most of the people I know won’t work with it unless it’s been processed by mircoorganisms to eliminate the odor and parasites. The dung of herbivores like rabbits, cows and horses – is typically less parasitic and smells milder by comparison. (Farts are another matter.)
An interesting site.
And according to this 1996 Salon article, crocodile poop is the most acidic in the animal kingdom. For a millenium-old species whose diet includes fish, turtles, antelope, buffalo and hippos and is basically unchanged since prehistoric times, that kind of makes a whacked-out sense.
“For a millenium-old species whose diet includes fish, turtles, antelope, buffalo and hippos”
Wouldn’t that make a crocodile a carnivore and its dung “typically loaded with bacteria, parasites, worms, etc.?”
You take suppositories orally?!?
Askia, you still haven’t provided any evidence that over 50% of 1000 year old remedies are or ever were effective. Yes some of them may have some effect, if for no other reason than that even a blind squirrel has to find a nut occasionally. I think your claim that most of them are effective is hughly dubious.
And I still want to know where I said that Egyptians ate human faeces.
Yes, yes there is. And there is an obvious difference between the excrement of a calf with scours and the doo-doo produced by a healthy bull in his prime. Rabbit pellets seem a lot like deer pellets, but they are different. It’s all still critter stool and one word to describe them all.
For fertilizer, you can’t do much better than horse manure from a stall with peat moss for bedding. Call it manure, poop, shit, dung, or a steaming pile of crap - it’s still the same thing and it still ain’t Shinola. (Although it may well, like any doody, contain parasites - http://danpatch.ecn.purdue.edu/~epados/farmstead/yards/src/horse.htm)
On this topic of feces, I will spare your jokes about what might be found in Ms. Whitherspoon’s toilet…
Thank you, Tripler and PetW. Yes, Sock Munkey, I did make that up, and I was rushing a bit hoping no one would beat me to it!