Therapeutic uses of Olive Oil through the ages (besides it being good for your heart!)

Resolves swelling and heals open chilblains.

Tightens and hardens body parts.

Heats, softens and opens the pores, and eliminates pain.

It is useful for all ailments afflicting mothers. It provides a moderate warmth, and soothes and constricts.

When taken orally, it relaxes the bowels and kills stomach ardours.

It can be comfortably smeared at the start of a headache, and can be used as a mouthwash when teeth are painful

It warms and provokes sleepiness. It is therefore very often useful for frantic persons, to whom it is applied on the forehead or in the nose.

It faciliates childbirth and softens piles.

It vehemently warms, abrases, opens, absorbs and mundifies (sic) ulcers.

No poisonous things can get to a place where there is oil, nor flies, nor fleas, nor spiders, and if they come they die, because it is venom for venomous animals.

Mixed with water and honey, it is useful against a sore throat and ruggedness of the windpipe.

To sum up, Olive Oil does away with all illness.
"Aceite de Oliva, todo mal quita", (Hernán Núñez, 1555)