Ol' Home Remedies

[rainplace]

My great great grandmother (Granny Mildred) had a small citrus grove and she would do something with grapefruit seeds that cleared any sort of infection in the mouth. I wish I had actually seen her do it.
Tobacco does work for insect stings. Granny Mildred smoked her entire life, and she'd take one of her cigarettes, chew them up, and smear it on all sorts of stings.
She also believed that everyone needed a good cleaning out once a week. She was always concerned that I hadn't been cleaned out since the last time I saw her, so in the evening she'd make a strong dandelion tea and send me to the toilet with the sears catalog for reading. She'd say, "You better stink it up real good," .... like I could do anything else

 

[sundance]

I keep a pouch of tobacco on top of the fridge, so if I get an insect sting, I grab some, add water enough to make it stick and slap it over the sting. For colds. herbal tea, i like camolalite (sp), with honey and a shot of vodka, go to bed and sweat it out.Toe fungus, soak feet in white vinegar 2 to 3 times a week, l part each water & vinegar.dry skin I use pure coconut oil after a warm bath. marrie

 

[fuzziebutt]

When hubby and I married, my oldest was 15, and the son's feet always stunk. Stank. Who knows, but we looked for something dead. The boy seemed to be born with atheletes feet. Hubby told him to stop up the bathtub when he took a shower, and pour some clorox in the tub. He did that for about a week, and the stink stank stopped. Now, the boy is nearly 30 (dang, he's getting old) and he still does it when his feet give him trouble!

 

[Mattemma]

Honey for a cough

Mullien and garlic in olive oil,warm,strain,drops in ears for pain and infection.

Slippery elm for the throat

A few drops of grapefruit seed extract in water,gargle for infections and sore throat

kefir for stomach upset

miso soup with garlic for colds

onion tea...for colds?

Warm salt,put in sock,place by ear for ear aches

rub jewel weed juice on skin to lessen poison ivy exposure/itch

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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bust a burn blister after the sun is down and the moon is out

I used to work with a woman, from the south, who grew up with these. Told me once her throat was so sore she skipped the sugar and just drank straight kerosene. OMG, lucky to be alive. Said her dad used to pee in a bottle and her mom would put it in their ears when they had an earache.

Imp

Pee works on Jelly fish stings tooo

 

[fosterchick]

my grandfather would chew tobacco and then spit in the dogs mouths. He would say spit and the dogs open the mouths. This was done to keep worms away. The dogs never had worms.