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Home Remedies... That really work!
12/18/02 12:53 PM
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I was never one to run to the doctor over a "sniffle"... my Grandmother would have these remedies that seemed to work miracles...
So... just curious, What health remedies have been passed down to your families from previous generations...? 
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/18/02 03:08 PM
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My folks always had a tin of Corona bag balm  on hand for cuts, burns and abrasions. It would literally bring a boil to a head. Ma got us a tin the first year we were married (33 years ago), we've used it and many more since. You can't buy it in the tins anymore, it now comes in plastic tubs, but it's still the best dadburn stuff for cuts, chaffing, burns and abrasions. 
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/18/02 07:46 PM
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At the woodworking shop where I worked for 22 years, we kept a healthy supply of kerosene and oil (mixed 50-50), for many purposes, like lubricating sharpening stones, or cast iron machine surfaces.
One additional use for this was when you got cut (not amputated, but any cut, from a minor one, to one requiring a few stitches)....dump your cut into kerosene and oil; this would stem the bleeding, and later, once it got cleaned properly and stitched up, the soreness was not there. The kerosene and oil draws out the soreness. I have done this for half a dozen bad slices, and can attest to its effectiveness.
Works well for blood blisters, too.
Not for use on any abdominal puncture wound, however 
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/18/02 11:08 PM
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John, Ants are a domestic nusiance. Having them invade a home calls for a "home remedy." My grend parents on my mom's side used to put lamp oil in tin cans and set the legs of the kitchen table in the tins. This prevented ants getting onto the table.
I once reached for a piece of a sliced and peeled apple in my grand dads (father's side) hand and just barely brushed against the pocket knife blade in his hand. I was in grade school then and still have the 1 1/4 inch scar on my finger which I believe was helped to form by the turpentine used liberally for an "antiseptic." Part of the, "if it hurts it helps heal" mystique.
Some folk medicine has a basis in fact and can be useful but some is based on ignorance and is inefective at best and dangerous at its worst. As Tom said at midnight in the cemetary, "spunk water spunk water injun shorts, spunk water spunk water swaller them warts."
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 06:25 AM
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scar on my finger which I believe was helped to form by the turpentine used liberally for an "antiseptic.
Right Pat!! Turpentine it was, not the kerosene and oil mix. I've been away from it too long
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 09:31 AM
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You can also make a syrup out of borax and sugar and set it down on small plates. The ants will eat the heck out of it and never come back. The borax burns them up from the inside. But not before they take it back to the nest.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 09:42 AM
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Hank, ( near the burgeoning metropolis of Wickenburg AZ Where my sister and brother-in-law live when not galavanting about)
My take on home remedies is that some are eficacious, some are essentially harmless but not effective beyone the placebo effect, and some, if not directly dangerous, can cause harm through the delay of appropriate medical treatment.
Some of the folk remedies are pretty weird like placing an axe under the birthing bed to cut labor pains or having the groom urinate through his wedding ring on his wedding night to ensure full erectile function (pre Viagra).
Copper bracelets, wearing magnets, and so forth are pretty hard over into the realm of quackery. I myself try to always carry a dime with me (excellent electrical conductor in a round format with serrated edge). Its properties ward off lightning strikes, meteor impact, and various wild animal stampedes. So far it has worked with 100% effectiveness as I have never been hit by lightning, meteors, nor stampedes of wild animals. Before you scoff at this folk wisdom, consider that it has worked for me and many others for decades with 100% protection. (The new laminate dime may not afford the same protection)
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SHF, I used to makek it with Karo syrup and borax. I kept it in squeeze bottles and applied it wherever needed, indoors or out. The applicator snout made it easy to "inject" it into cracks. Some of the ants like it and some don't.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 10:01 AM
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Pat, the syrup usually works for us, but you're right, it depends on the type of ant. When the syrup doesn't work, I usually just spray the heck out of them with Raid. 
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 11:28 AM
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I have an herb garden with both culinary and medicinal herbs. one remedy stands out. Horehound - for sore throats and colds. You can still find horehound coughdrops for sale if you look hard enough. So I grew some just to try. Got a cold so I brew up some horehound tea. Take a swallow and almost gag. My Lord that stuff is bitter and nasty. Add some honey - still yuck. Dump some out and dilute with more water. Still gross. I can say it did offer relief to my sore throat. But it was so gross tasting I never made another cup of horehound tea. Ripped it outta the garden in fact to make room for some other herb.
As kids my father gave us candied ginger root for nausea or car-sickness. Worked very well. But I can't grow ginger here in NH.
Aloe plant for burns. Wet tea bags acts as a chelating agent and will stop a cut from bleeding. Pepperment tea for stomach upset.
I have a shelf full of books devoted to herbs but the above ones are the only ones I routinely use.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 12:10 PM
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Poison Ivy - I figured this one out by accident. I discovered that scalding the rash with hot water brought excellent temporary itch relief but made it worse long term. So I tried scalding and then dousing with rubbing alcohol, voila!, the rash went away painlessly the next day. Now my regiment is: before going to bed when I first notice a rash I scald till I scream then pour on the alcohol till I cry, go to sleep, and wake up the next day with a poison ivy infection almost itchless and well on the way to recovery.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 01:10 PM
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Lavy J just reminded me of a good one. If you know that you've touched poison ivy, and you're in a wet area, pick up as much jewel weed (also know as "touch-me-not") as you can and rub it where ever you touched the poison ivy. The juice from the plant desensitizes you from the oil of the poison ivy, and you won't get it.
I'm pretty sensitive to poison ivy, and a few times I was pulling out vines, and realized that I was pulling poison ivy. The times I did the jewel weed trick, I didn't get it, the times I wasn't near any jewel weed, I did.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 05:45 PM
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Hank, ( near the burgeoning metropolis of Wickenburg AZ Where my sister and brother-in-law live when not galavanting about)
Pat, there's a lot of that going around here Many homes have the extra garage with the 14 ft overhead door for the RV.
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Re: Home Remedies... That really work!
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12/19/02 06:59 PM
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I have an herb book written by a Michigan Doctor who researched plants Native to Michigan (Most of the Northern US). His poison Ivy remedy is a tea made from Gale (sp?) leaves. He claims to have tried it and it works. I hope so, because I haven't been able to figure out anything to do with the stuff and it grows everywhere.
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