Weird or Old Home Remedies

[CarolynF]

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It WORKS!!! My mom taught us that when we were young. But for serious burns grab that aloe plant, quick. And use lots of cold water, too.

 

[CarolynF]

Ditto on the bag balm mentioned earlier, it's great for diaper rash, skinned knees, dry cracked skin, etc. I tried to tell that to my ex when he worked heavy construction and came home with cracked, bleeding hands from the chemicals in the concrete forms. He tried everything ELSE. Finally an old timer on the job told him there's only one thing that works -- guess what -- BAG BALM!

I asked our young pediatrician about it in the 80s when my daughter was born. He said they'd discussed it in med school and told it was great for diaper rash, use it!

For a cough mix honey & whiskey, take a teaspoon.

To kill the itch of a bug bite use a drop of ammonia, works great.

Watch out for mustard plasters! My mom tried it on her young husband since that's what her mom used, he got blisters from it being TOO strong!

If you need to bandage a cut, maybe it even needs a stitch or two, crack an egg and empty out the shell, peel out the white membrane in as large a piece as possible. Affix it to the cut and leave it on as long as possible. It's a little like super glue on skin!

Canned milk (aka evaporated milk) to take the burn out of sun burns - but as I remember it's kind of stinky.

When my DD was a baby she had diahrea really bad and couldn't keep anything down. Doc told me to get a can of classic coke, stir out ALL the bubbles and give her a teaspoon. When she could keep that down, increase to 2 teaspoons. Wait a while and repeat. Or go to the pharmacist and buy Coke syrup. There's something in that recipe that calms the stomach. I always keep a can of classic coke around because it sure seems to work.

When the same sort of thing happened in the 1950s I was terribly sick. The baby of a close family friend died during some kind of outbreak. The doc told my dad to scrape the meat of an apple with a spoon and feed it to me. Dad always swore it saved my life. When I had a baby our ped. said raw apple was definitely good for treating diahrea. Perhaps it's the pectin.

To get rid of garlic smell from your fingers, hold the bowl of a stainless steel spoon with your fingertips and run cold water over your hand. It works.

 

[piecemaker]

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works for bull nettle sting
piecemaker

 

[piecemaker]

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DH has BAD leg cramps. Co worker told him to try pickle juice It REALLY does work. We have bottles of pj every where, he even keeps a bottle on his bed side table. You can buy just the juice in some places that sell sport drinks, Like at Acadamey

piecemaker

 

[ebwy2]

urine to clear up warts and veruccas.

coffee to get rid of onion smells from your hands.



olive oil for cradle cap (just make your baby oven ready!)

mashed potato to help deal with the side effects from coming off antidepressants

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

Bacon fat on a boil will draw out the pus, so will bread soaked in milk, preferably not less than 2%.

Soak a towel in instant tea and place over a sunburn to draw the sting out.

Pine Sol will get rid of seed ticks, use full strength then shower, of course

Let me see if I can think of some more, it's been a long night

 

[stilldeb]

Honey and lemon juice mixed together for a cough. This was the only cough medicine I had growing up and it works, and tastes so much better than Robitussin.

And Vicks on toenail fungus (or Blu-Kote, but then you have a blue toe) and also Vicks on the bottoms of your feet for a cough.

Duct tape for warts.

Wet chewing tobacco for stings, but less nasty...cut an onion and put the freshly cut juicy side on the sting. always used this with my kids.

My Dad had one for warts...steal your Mom's dishrag, rub it on the wart, then bury the dishrag in the backyard. NO IDEA how this one was supposed to work. Guilt, I guess.

Arnica gel (homeopathic remedy) for muscle pain or bruising. I used this when I had pain after a broken arm after I got my cast off and it was amazing. A pharmacist told me about it.



deb g

 

[Heathero617]

clove oil for tooth ache

LOCAL bee pollen taken orally >granuals< to build your allergy immunity for the area you live in ...careful tho i did it one spring and i took too much and my allergies kicked in full force and nearly ended up in the ER...start very slowly and build up your consumption

Bagbalm for ANY skin irritation

My mom told me horror stories of kerosene on sugar cubes for cough >eww<

WD40 for artheritis

Hydrogen Peroxide and borax for red mange in dogs >getting ready to try this one on a stray we just took in<

Fells naptha soap for poison ivy...use it yearly as i am highly allergic to poison ivy, swear i get it by looking at the plant.

Mom was told to blow cigarette smoke in my ears as a kid for my MANY middle ear infections, dont think it worked but it did kinda feel good with the warmth and slight pressure of her blowing

Bananas for leg cramps, supposidly the potassium helps relieve them.

Best remedy ever ....ICE CREAM FOR A SWEET TOOTH!!!! now this i have no problem doing!!!

Happy Fathers day to all Fathers in the group!!!

 

[welsummerchicks]

A popular old home remedy for many ills, was to hang a dead woodchuck or ferret around your neck. Memories......

 

[Carols Clucks]

My parents were BIG time natural health "experts" as a kid. I have eaten and had a variety of home treatments done to me. Word of advise, be careful what you try and ask the person you are getting the good advise from if it actually worked for them.

Things my parents did that were fine included eating extra garlic so the skeeters did not like you, eating huckle berries (stronger than blueberries and everyone seems to be on the blue berry band wagon) and avoiding aluminum (that includes deodorant)

Things my parents would tell you worked would include:

enemas for headaches; you bet after one "cure" I never ever told mom I had a migraine again-so I was "cured"

garlic cloves for ear infections; the garlic juice burnt so bad the infection felt better

charcoal powder and flax seed poultice to cure infections; yes they did save my dads feet from amputation, but that might have been helped by the several months worth of high powered antibiotics he was taking as well (and that the same doc has used to save other diabetics feet...)


Frankly if you offered the urine cure for my ear ache, it would be magically all better too!

(Moms crazy friend uses the "first of the day" to wash her face to keep her young looking)