Honey - Cure Of Diseases

There were nine diseases in Northland:

"Colic, Pleurisy and Fever,
Ulcer, Plague and dread Consumption,
Gout, Sterility and Cancer."

Wainamoinen, "the wise and wonderful enchanter", hastens to his people's rescue.

"Wainamoinen heats the bathrooms,
Heats the blocks of healing sandstone
With the magic wood of Northland
Gathered by the sacred river.
Then a honey heat he wakens,
Fills the rooms with healing vapors."

Then he prays to Ukko, the Great Spirit of Finland:

"On the heated blocks of sandstone
May the water turn to honey
Laden with the balm of healing.
Send us mingled rain and honey,
Balsam from the great physician
To remove this plague of Northland."

The "eternal wise enchanter" then:

"Rubbed his sufferers with balsams
Rubbed the tissues, red and painful,
With the balm of healing flowers
Balsams made of herbs enchanted."