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Peat-based therapies persist in some regions—spas offering peat baths, folk remedies using sphagnum for wound care, traditional practices continuing despite modern medicine’s availability.
And during World War I, when medical supplies were insufficient, sphagnum moss was collected, sterilized, and used in field hospitals. The ancient Celtic remedy proved valuable in modern warfare, its properties as effective with rifle wounds as with sword cuts.
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