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The most common disease in the world is the cold. It often s
starts
with a sore throat. You sneeze and your nose runs. You usually have a headache too. Often you have a cough afterwards. A cold is not a serious disease, but you can feel quite ill because of d
different
kinds of symptoms(症状).
It's hard to actually cure a cold, but you can take medicine to make you feel b
better
. For example, you can take aspirin to get rid of your headache. It is good to get up, and to drink a lot of water too. A doctor once told me, “With the r
right
medicine, a cold will last for seven days. With no medicine, it will go on for a whole week!” That means with or w
without
medicine, I would be better in a week.
Where does our medicine come from? A long time ago, people understood that some plants made them feel better. They ate the l
leaves
, the roots, the fruit, or the seeds of plants. For example, the j
juice
of lemons makes a sore throat feel better.
In modern times, s
scientists
have looked at these plants, and found out which chemicals are in them. Many of our medicines today are made from those chemicals.
There are some diseases and problems which we can't cure yet. For example, n
nobody
has found a cure for old age. But because of modern medicines, the average persons now live longer t
than
their grandparents.
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