Home Remedies

[msmoneybags48]

I know that my late grandmother swore by home remedies because they worked.  I can tell you of two that stick out in my memory.  I was a little girl and hurt my ankle.  She put my foot in a bag with chicken feathers.  Imagine a child with this brown grocery bag full of chicken feathers on her foot.  I had no other choice but to lay there.  The second one was when I caught a sore throat.  She put a braid in the center of my head, tied it up tight enough to cut off all the oxygen to my brain, and darn near gagged me to death with a concoction of salt and black pepper, which she took on the end of a spoon trying to hit my "pallet tongue" (the pink thing in the back of your throat).  They both worked.  Do anyone in the forum have any such stories of home remedies and did they work?    

[Nancy5]

Those are news to me.  The ones my grandmother used, if you had a cold she rubbed Vicks on your chest and gave you a teaspoon of it to eat ( yuck), if you had an ear infection my grandfather smoked cigars and would blow the smoke into your ear.

[msmoneybags48]

Nancy 5, I had heard of rubbing Vicks on your chest, but not swallowing it.  Your grandfather's blowing smoke in your ear to get rid of an infection is news to me.  I wanted to know if any one went through being the guinea pig when it came down to home remedies.  Thanks.

[Nancy5]

It's funny all the things our grandparents believed in and we survived to tell it!

[msmoneybags48]

My grandmother believed there was nothing that couldn't be cured by a home remedy.  My sister was scalded by hot water when she hit the floor and the pot fell off the heater.  Her home remedy for that was putting moistened cornmeal on her burn.  Unfortunately, I heard my sister lit up the doctor's office because he had to dig all that corn meal off in order to treat it!

[devilroljin]

My family was into home remedies, specially the grandparents, they weren't completely all into home remedies, but somewhat into them. So I got to experience some of 'em, not as a guinea pig, because they were already "proven", perhaps with our parents, or themselves by our great grandparents, lol. The one that I still use to date, and will continue to use is whenever I get food poisoned, I will take a clove or garlic and split it in half, and drink it like if it was a pill. Keep in mind I'm by no means a fan or garlic, specially in that way, I somewhat like the slight flavor it provides to food, but in desperate times, desperate measures. I've come to believe, by own experience and generations before me, that garlic is extremely efficient when it comes to food poison. I once researched online to why the garlic was so successful in treating food poison, and medical facts stated that garlic has one of the most potent naturally occurring antibiotics against food poisoning caused by bacteria (which is very common occurrence). Reading a little further I found that bacterias have membranes to shield them and make them hard to destroy; raw garlic's active compound has the power to breach said membrane, even with the most of stubborn and renegade bacteria like Staphylococcus. I guess most of our Gran Pa's remedies aren't too farfetched after all.

[moonangel]

when i was a kid i was staying at my aunts and we kids were walking barefoot down the middle of the creek   well i cut my foot really bad  cousins hualed me back to the house and she had me sitting on the tub with running water over my foot then she stuck my foot in a bag of flour saying it would help with clotting  i guess it worked i still have my foot lol

[yaayme]

My mother told me when she was a little girl her grandmother told her to rub cornmeal on her body everyday to cure her severe eczema...and it worked!! 

[mary33716]

 home remidies i really dont have any that i can help with