Ol' Home Remedies

[Damummis]

I want you all to post your old home remedies.

My favorite is warm olive oil for earaches, add garlic for infection. If the pain is real bad a moist towel that has been on the woodstove to get warm.

Black drawing salve.


Your turn.

 

[mamaKate]

Vinegar for ear problems, yogurt for all issues digestive, white Dial solution soak for puncture or infected wounds; nasty Recluse bites get peroxide followed by antibiotic ointment 3 times a day. A good peroxide ear cleaning can sometimes stop an early cold in its tracks. Carrots, apples, parsley and horseradish in a salad or juicer can shorten a cold.

 

[MagsC]

Dill tea for a colicky baby, chamomile tea as a mild sedative before bedtime, aloe vera for burns, onions as an antibiotic etc.

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

A drop of dishsoap on a tick

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

My mama would always put a vicks and onion poultice wraped around my chest for a chest cold.

 

[Damummis]

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Ooo I remember those, Yuck!!!!!

 

[DragonFeathers]

Baking soda and water paste for a bee sting, takes the sting and itch away

 

[Tendu]

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I actually like to use backing soda and an alcohol based mouthwash. It dries faster and I imagine helps take some of the poison out.

Although I have to admit some of these home remedies make me a little wary. Hydrogen peroxide is one of those chemicals I reserve for cleaning only. It simply tears apart anything in it's path good or bad.

 

[mom'sfolly]

meat tenderizer for bee stings and fire ant bite. The enzymes in the meat tenderizer dissolve the protein based venoms.

 

[Damummis]

mom'sfolly :

meat tenderizer for bee stings and fire ant bite. The enzymes in the meat tenderizer dissolve the protein based venoms.

That works on jelly fish stings too.​