Lisa Saville Cigarette smoke and sweet oil in the ears every summer to cure my swimmers ear from Union Lake!!
Tammy Branin Randazzo OMG....I remember my Dad, Newell Branin Sr., blowing smoke in my ear when I had an ear-ache.
Lyn Bonavich My dad would soak a piece of bread in hot milk, wrap it in a clean white hankercheif and apply it to a boil! It would work just like drawing salve to open the boil up!
Walda Passaro My grandmother would wrap a slice of raw potato in a clean white hankerchief and tie it around you head - over your eye to get rid of a sty.
Lyn Bonavich Another thing was to take a 1/2cup of molasses, add a heaping tablespoon of baking soda to it, stir it up real good and it would foam up. Then you take a large spoonful for a bad cough and it really worked! Put a piece of tinfoil over the cup and re-stir each time before you use it.
ONiel Holmes my Grandmother use to mix water and spirit of nitre(sic) to break a fever.
Irene Carr Stark My Mom would make a very hot vinegar pancake and put it over my ear to cure an ear ache. It didn't seem to cure the ache, but I got a nice sunburn on the side of my face. Ouch!
Eileen Boyce Cowling I kind of prefer whiskey and honey for a cold.....gee, think I'm coming down with one.....
Maryjane Lloyd Moats My grandmother made onion cough syrup somehow cooking the onlon down and adding sugar.
Sheila Roselle My grandmother from England visited us in the late 50s for 6 months. A friend of my mom's had a nasty bee sting and grandma Read bought raw products at Knowles to make a mustard plaster. Any sign of the sting was gone overnight!
Lyn Bonavich When my brother and I got a bad sunburn my mom would rub us down with white vinegar! It stunk like heck but cooled the burn!
Angelina Rose Falasca-Taylor I also remember having a warm tea bag put over my eye for a stye.
Sheila Roselle Sunburn and poison ivy remedy : oatmeal in a nylon stocking, hop in the tub and slather that stocking all over!
Joyce DeHart-Gibson I remember Niter for fevers, tasted sweet. Still can remember the taste.
Rickie Oldfield Tripoli A mustard plaster is made with dry mustard and a liquid mixed together in a paste. It is applied to the chest for congestion. It burns so bad it leaves red skin!!! But I guess it worked because I got better!
Miriam Louise Huskey My Polish grandmother made onion plasters. If I remember correctly--cole oil was used at times also.
Maryjane Lloyd Moats My grandmother used onion plasters when my uncle had pneumonia. He survived, so I guess it worked.
Lyn Bonavich My mom told me her granny used to cut an onion in two pieces and tie half in a rag on their wrist when they had a bad chest cold, etc. the next morning the onion would turn black and the cold would be much better!
Miriam Louise Huskey The onion turning black like that is the reason we are being told not to KEEP onions. Throw away after you use what you need.
Lyn Bonavich Yep! They say onions absorb bacteria so be careful!
Joyce DeHart-Gibson We had a welding company and if anybody burned their eyes when welding you could us raw potatoes on your eyes and it would take the blisters off. Speaking of onions my ex-father in law was Italian and he used to tell me to cut up onions and put them in my kids socks for fever. Said it would draw it out. Tried it but they hated it!!
Lisa Saville Read an article that said if you are ill place half a cut onion next to your bed. In the morning the onion will be black from drawing the virus from you. Havent tried ut it couldn't hurt
Patti Clark Kears My Mom would grease our backs and chests with Vicks and then safety pin a wool sock around our necks ( it had to be wool to add to the delight). It was used for colds, congestion, and sore throats. I can't bear to wear wool to this day.
Donna Roberts Horsfield Not that it has anything to do with food, but... my mom would rub the Vicks on our chests and then smear some on a handkerchief and fold it up and we'd use that to sniff all night for stuffy noses and congestion. So glad my mom didn't go to that extreme, Patty
ONiel Holmes how about putting a spoonful in a pot of hot water and inhaling the vapors?
For Arthritis Mrs. Walti
1 TB powdered rhubarb (1oz)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground ginger
\4 drops wintergreen
Mix all in 1 pint of water that has been boiled and cooled down to luke warm and stir until all is dissolved. Take wine glass every morning. Shake mixture before3 taking.
Sore Throat Gargle
2 TB salt
3 tsp baking soda
1 quart warm water
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