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BEST old fashion "remedy" that still dumbfounds people I teach this to even today is for hiccups.
If you get hiccups, take a deep breath, and then take 10 tiny swallows of water without taking the next breath....works 100% of the time!!! I can not tell you how many people do not belief this when it works for them and asks me where I learned this....have no idea, it was something I was taught as a youngster and has worked ever since for me and everyone I have taught it to.
We had several "go to" type family recipes homeopathic, or home remedy & solutions.
1. kitchen burns....yellow mustard, spread on the burn. Works great, no blistering.
2. raw potato over wounds. I use to often step on things, like nails....raw potato, sliced and applied to the wound,
draws the poison out. Same with copper pennies.
3. Any sort of cold, sore throat, or flu....Hot water with lemon...Bout 1/2 water, 1/2 lemon juice. Microwave this and drink it as hot as you can stand.
4. Vinegar rinse after shampoo. Result, shiny, soft hair.
5. baking soda poultice applied to chicken pox sores...helps relieve itching and heals.
6. Bathroom deodorizer.....strike a match.
I'll likely think of others. Looking forward to reading other posts
My grandmother had severe arthritis in her hands and my aunt used to bring over a few bees in a jar. Gran would stick her hand in a narrow cooking pot, Aunt would drop a bee in and they'd cover the pot with a towel. One sting on each hand.
ABSOLUTELY! I use to NOT report scrapes/cuts/wounds because of the FEAR of mecurichrome with its glass ball applicator and BURN, BURN, BURN when applied! LOL
Are you thinking of iodine? That was brownish in similar bottle with same type applicator.
Mercurochrome was red and did not burn, to my recollection of it.
I think the only one we had was very hot water with lemon if you had a cold. Gah, it tasted awful. You were supposed to glug that down and crawl under a pile of blankets and they'd turn the heat way up so you could "sweat it out."
Oh wait! If you got poison ivy, and I always did, they'd stand you up in the bathroom sink and wash you with yaller soap (yellow soap aka Fels Naptha) in "water as hot as you can stand it." I don't think it worked, just a form of torture.
I think the only one we had was very hot water with lemon if you had a cold. Gah, it tasted awful.
Oh wait! If you got poison ivy, and I always did, they'd stand you up in the bathroom sink and wash you with yaller soap (yellow soap aka Fels Naptha) in "water as hot as you can stand it." I don't think it worked, just a form of torture.
That's bad, but once I took a 15 foot downhill skid on cinders on my bike -- the last half of it the bike was laid down....left elbow and knee scraped to high heaven and cinders imbedded in my skin.
I walked myself and the bike home and my mom proceeded to clean the wounds with SEA BREEZE. I was screaming and sobbing before she even started -- totally hysterical because I KNEW that would hurt....and jeez-a-loo -- it sure did...
Gotta tell you -- no scars. No embedded cinders anywhere, no scars from the cuts, scrapes or road rash.... unlike the other knee where I did the same thing the year before...
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