Donkey milk in history
Donkey milk has aroused a lot of interest in recent years for various applications. History indeed seems to show a thousand-year-old tradition of using donkey milk in different applications. It was used in antiquity to cure all kinds of diseases, it was used as a "Fountain of Youth" for the skin, but also as food suitable for orphan babies of the 19-20th century, who drank directly from the breast of the donkey.
Pauline, Napoleon's sister, took donkey baths Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, maintained her great beauty and the youthfulness of her skin in donkey milk baths. She had a herd of about 700 donkeys.
The Romans already used donkey milk for its therapeutic virtues. Poppée, wife of Emperor Nero, used it to keep her skin radiant and supple. Messaline, Roman Empress, wife of Emperor Claudius I (10 BC: 54 AD), made beauty masks with donkey milk soaked on slices of bread. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, maintained her great beauty and the youth of her skin in baths of donkey milk. She had a herd of about 700 donkeys. François 1st, king of France, worn out by wars and excesses, followed the advice of a doctor from Constantinople and adopted a cure of donkey milk, which, they say, worked miracles. He later said: "One day from a donkey, the milk restored me to health. And I owe this circumstance more to the donkeys than to the Faculty." Pauline, Napoleon's sister, took donkey baths, which caused a scandal at the time when milk was very rare.
In the nineteenth century, in the streets of large cities, donkeys wander, led by merchants who warn of their passage by shouting: "Donkey milk, good donkey milk!". Elegant women regularly consumed this precious beverage, but poor families only bought it for a sick child or a weak old man. At the same time, the use of donkey milk in maternity hospitals is developing. The donkey lends itself easily to breastfeeding infants that are presented to it directly at the udder. Donkey milk was marketed until the beginning of this century to feed orphaned babies and to care for frail children, the sick and the old. In the tradition of this use of donkey milk, asineries have emerged in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany ... And the success of these particular farms, which market donkey milk, confirms the ancestral reputation of the product and all the importance of its vital properties.
Cleopatra's beauty secret
Donkey milk has been known and used since ancient times, by both the Greeks and the Romans. It was a luxury drink, but was also prescribed by Hippocrates for all sorts of ailments (healing, joint pain, etc.). Not far from being reduced to medicinal or culinary use, it was Cleopatra's beauty secret. She immersed herself daily in donkey's milk baths to preserve the radiance of her complexion as well as: the softness and youthfulness of her skin. Legend has it that to fill a bath, you needed milk from 300 donkeys!
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