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Help: Folk Remedies
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Subject: Folk Remedies From: Allan C. Date: 25 Oct 99 - 04:33 PM It is now the season for a variety of ailments to roost upon us all. I started thinking about all of the many home remedies with which I have become acquainted and wondered about what others might be out there. My own favorite remedy for throat problems is an ocassional sip of Drambue. But as a youngster, I was dosed with spoons laden with a mixture of honey, lemon and whiskey in equal parts. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Uilleand Date: 25 Oct 99 - 04:35 PM Cheers to the whiskey. I keep disinfecting my throat with it. And won't you know it -- before long I don't feel any pain! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Bert Date: 25 Oct 99 - 04:52 PM For back pain - lay off of the cafeen. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Penny S. Date: 25 Oct 99 - 05:35 PM For a throat or a cough. Malt vinegar with as much demerara sugar as will dissolve in it. Or honey. Knocks out the nerves, and, the real advantage, you don't have to wait four hours for another slug. You might want to, of course. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Jack (Who is called Jack) Date: 25 Oct 99 - 05:48 PM My slovenian Grandma (still livin at 86, and might well make it through her 90's) always gave us chamomile tea for colds and caraway tea for stomach upset (or was it the other way round?) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Freddie Fox Date: 25 Oct 99 - 05:56 PM I drink a pint of peppermint tea every morning, and I rarely have indigestion or stomach upsets. If I run out or forget, oh boy... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Wartless Date: 25 Oct 99 - 06:14 PM I had 2 fair sized warts on the top of my left hand and our young grandson kept asking about them. Remembering an old country custom that my mother and grandmother had used, I soaked them with a Q/stick soaked in white vinegar twice a day for 2 or 3 weeks. One day I started to apply the treatment and THEY WERE GONE! Without a trace and never returned. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: katlaughing Date: 25 Oct 99 - 06:41 PM Mint tea has always been recommended for upset stomach. if your intestines are upset, drink aloe juice. It is very refreshing and tastes good over cracked ice. Sore throat, my son-in-law from Antigua's grannie always made ginger rootbeer. Gingerroot soaked in water with lot of brown sugar, overnight. They drink it all fo the time. I think for the throat, though she made ginger tea with honey & lemon. Check out the auction. Before I saw this thread, I had decided to offer a hardback of Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health by D.C. Jarvis, M.D. I don't need two copies!:-) It has great stuff in it including lots on honey, kelp and iodine. I used to make my own St John's Wort oil, before it was so popular. It turned a beautiful ruby red and was good for aches and pains, rubbed on. Also made my own dandelion root tincture. I used it when I had *power surges* during pre-moontime cessation (pre-menopause) and a friend of mine used it for the fatal type of hepatitis. He is fine now, off SSi and everything. He used a lot of other things, too, to be healed. I have some excellent books on these and on herbs. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: kendall Date: 25 Oct 99 - 06:46 PM for colds zinc and vitamin c |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Little Neophyte Date: 25 Oct 99 - 06:54 PM Great Topic Allan Looking for a Real Powerful Tea for Colds? This will helps head and chest congestion, malaise and the chills.
The Magic Recipe:
Reference: Dr. Andrew Weil |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Lesley N. Date: 25 Oct 99 - 06:58 PM Dong Quai for PMS and symptoms of menopause. That would be for the ladies only - guys need to take tranquilizers to deal with it. Black cohosh has estrogen in it so it is also good first step for hormone replacement therapy. NEITHER of these should be taken during pregnancy and one should not get pregnant while on either of these. Following T's example in the copyright thread let me say I am not medically qualified to recommend these herbs and they are not clinically proven treatments. You take these at your own risk and my message should not be construced as medical advice!! I feel better now. I am no going to have some honey for my nerves - maybe drambuie or whiskey...
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: bbelle Date: 25 Oct 99 - 07:08 PM For an upset stomach or cramps, mint tea is wonderful and it works and it's better than the carving knive I kept under the bed to cut the pain. For colds and nasal congestion, hot tea with lemon and honey or hot water with lemon and honey; the lemon juice is natural synephrine. For coughs, whiskey and honey; whiskey quietens the cough center and honey soothes the throat. For migraine headaches, two bags of frozen peas; keep one of the side of the head that's affected (the peas mold to the shape of your face)and one in the freezer for when the first bag starts to soften. For boils, potato peels held in place with a bandaid; the peels draw out the core. For bee stings, tobacco wetted and held in place with a bandaid; the tobacco draws out the stinger. These are all my grandmother's remedies and they work ... moonchild |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Nancy-Jean Date: 25 Oct 99 - 09:54 PM This one comes from Sicily! I was there with la mia famiglia in 1955 and got very sick with a chest cold. Mamma mia! Una tragedia! The maid in the 4th class hotel where we were staying said she had a molto bene remedia. She had me lie face down on the bed. She put some blankets on my back,and on top of that a damp towel and then proceded to iron my back. It was hot and very effective. I just checked--no imprint of an iron left on my back neither! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: _gargoyle Date: 25 Oct 99 - 10:10 PM My brother....was afflicted....after a stint in South East Asia.....with a peculiar wart....common only to Bird and Man....no amount of medical application could relieve him the malody....and then an Uncle in Idaho (whom we were visiting)....proclaimed the merits of "GRASSHOPPER TOBACCO JUICE" ....(you sqeeze the captured grasshopper ....above the abdomim .... and before the thorax....and a peculiar brown fluid issues from the mouth...or said grasshopper)
Jumpin' Jimminy Crickets....if those warts didn't disappear by the end of a week.
true story.... it did work...
Folk medicine all right by me...Folk medicine is the way to be. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: _gargoyle Date: 25 Oct 99 - 10:15 PM Dear Allan...
"dosed with spoons laden with a mixture of honey, lemon and whiskey in equal parts."
THANX for a common remedy....no doubt it made you what you are today...
others within this congregation may be better "dosed with heaping tablespoons laden with a mixture of Sienna Tea, Epson Salts, and Castor Oil. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: roopoo Date: 26 Oct 99 - 03:12 AM I had some success with chesty coughs by using white horehound (marrubium vulgare). I boiled a good handful in a pan with just enough water to cover it, and until it softened. I then strained and filtered the liquid and made it into syrup with a honey/sugar blend. It seems to work fairly quickly, although not for long and is good for loosening a cough. I have never found as yet a guide to dosage, but as the herb is used at passover, I believe and can also be made into a tea, it is safe to use in similar quantities to a normal cough syrup by my reckoning, if not more. It's also what the old "cough candy" used to be made from here in England. The trouble is, it doesn't keep. I also used to give my son oregano tea when he was about 10 and got a touch of colic. mouldy |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Ringer Date: 26 Oct 99 - 05:36 AM A simple recipe of my mother's for colds and sore throats (disgusting but powerful, she'd say): Chop an onion, cover it with sugar, leave it for a while for the sugar to draw fluid from the onion, discard the solids then drink the juice. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Allan C. Date: 26 Oct 99 - 07:42 AM Bee stings often occur in areas such as lawns where plantain grows. So the means for treatment is close at hand. Many people I know will pick a small handful, chew it long enough to pulverize it a bit (others roll it between their palms long enough to bring out the juice from the leaves,) and then place the wad over the sting to bring relief. The broadleaf variety is much easier to use for this. As for cold or flu remedies, in colonial America, pennyroyal tea was (and in some places still is) sometimes used in small quantities to cause one to sweat away a fever. It was also used in larger doses as an abortive. This was a particularly dangerous practice because the high fevers it caused were sometimes deadly. In a totally unrelated application, the plant's oil was often used as a mosquito repellent. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Jack (Who is called Jack) Date: 26 Oct 99 - 01:20 PM I experimented with horehound once. I couldn never get past that taste. Even with honey or as a candy it was repulsive. Note: For ailments that respond to mega-doses of vitamin C, rose hips are an excellent source. A packed cup of rose hip pulp can have as much C as a gross of oranges.
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Davey Date: 26 Oct 99 - 01:52 PM For burns, insect bites (black flies, mosquitoes, bees) a quick and effective remedy is to rub the area with the juice squeezed from an aloe vera leaf. If that's not available, the juice from 'hens and chickens', also known as houseleek, is equally effective. Makes an interesting and attractive garden plant, also, as a border around rocks. I recall years ago, when my grandfather played cribbage or bridge, he kept a bottle of rum and a tablespoon beside his chair. Periodically he would cough, clear his throat a couple of times, and have a spoonful of rum "for medicinal purposes". Over the course of an evening he would go through most of the bottle, one spoonful at a time, and whether it cured whatever was ailing him I don't know, but he didn't seem to mind much. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: Durham Lad Date: 26 Oct 99 - 04:31 PM For immune support to help fight of colds and flu, I swear by Echinacea. A flower used extensively by Native Americans. I'ts best in tinture form but tablets are fine if you can't stand the alcohol in tinctures! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Remedies From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 26 Oct 99 - 05:07 PM Lavender oil on a cotton ball tucked into my turtleneck hen I'm coming down with a cold seems to soothe the symptoms. Ginger tea for tummy trouble, chamomile/mint tea for colds. A hot water bottle and wool socks in bed for colds and flu. And Mother Natures finest tonic- loads of sleep! |
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