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Yeah, Bag Balm stinks of menthol. But it’s a great barrier ointment.
As for potatoes on burns - never tried it, but I do keep aloe plants. Just break off part of a leaf, stalk, whatever you call that growth, and spread the inner liquid on the burn. It works well.
Midkid - I loved paregoric. Mom used it on our gums when teething, but I know it was good for upset stomach or spasms. Only a little did the trick, not like a whole pill of opium!
I've been told that spider webs have a bit of antibiotic effect if put on cut skin. Not the kind with dust on them, like the cobwebs I sometimes have.
Barb, I’ve never heard of rubbing a freshly sliced potato on a burn! I will definitely try that the next time I burn myself in the kitchen!
CM, calamine lotion helped me as an anti-itch agent, for bug bites and such. And when I’d gotten a bad sunburn that was just beginning to heal, I would feel a maddening deep itch that was too painful to scratch. Calamine lotion was the only thing that quelled that itch. That, and lots of Benadryl.
My husband was given huge doses of cod liver oil as a child but just as a health-maintenance thing.
My parents gave us horrid-tasting vitamin losenzes that I would shove under the sofa as soon as mom wasn’t looking. I didn’t know how to swallow a pill, and I wasn’t about to chew that mess and swallow it. I’m sure my mom found them, but she never said anything. Maybe she tried one.
Not many of us liked the taste of them, but I Loved them, LOL, they were a little beige rectangular and flat wafer, and they would give you an exhilarating whoosh of inspiration when you sucked on them, he only gave them to us sparingly, but I would sneak them out of his drawers.
I know that he also used to find them in specialty candy shops and pharmacies up in BC Canada, before they finally took them off the market in the 80's, of course he stock piled them! Later they were repackaged into what you can now get, VICTORY LOZENGES, but they've taken the Chloroform out of them, you can get them on Amazon, but they are not the same , no more Whoosh!
My parents (for my Mom's Arthritis) used to also smuggle 222's out of Canada. We live in Seattle, so we often shopped up in Canada for the Brittish goods that you cannot find here. The 222's are a Aspirin/tylenol like product that also have Codeine in them. My Mom ate them by the handfuls, terrible, but they helped her with her arthritis pain, so you couldn't really blame her. Later she was treated with the usual narcotics, her arthritis was that bad. God Love her!
God knows if these old remedies contributed to their life ending diseases though, my Dad with PSP, and my Mom With Uterine cancer. Their parents gave them all sorts of "home remedies" when they were young. Of course that was in the 20's before modern medicine and all, I'm sure they tried everything!
Mind you, the state I was in by then I don't suppose I'd have cared if it was straight opium!
When I found out I was taking OPIUM--well, it was super effective and that's one drug I wish you still could get. DH has horrible stomach cramps at times and Paregoric was the only thing that helped. Maybe I was just drugging him into submission :)
I have a crusty, VERY OLD bottle of calamine lotion and I know our last need for it was 30 years ago with chicken pox. I don't recall that it helped at all. I probably should toss it :)
CM,
I remember calamine lotion being used on my chicken pox as a kid and I guess other skin issues. I do remember a bottle being in the medicine cabinet.
I certainly DON'T want to hear that anyone's taken up the challenge.
On old time cures - has ANYBODY ever found calamine lotion good for anything? It's still around, and as far as I've noticed equally useless for chicken pox, sunburn, eczema or anything else it's recommended for.
My grandma used to put a big glob of Vicks on the back of dad's mouth and made him let it run down his throat to cure colds. I KNOW he got cod liver oil daily.
My MIL was insistent I swab my kids' throats with Mercurochrome!! It has MERCURY in it. Love of heaven--she did this to her own kids. I told my DH I know why he's crazy, he was ingesting heavy metals all his life. I wouldn't let her near the kids when they were sick.
I DO remember getting a mustard plaster (vaguely) administered to me by my grandmothers, I guess I had croup or something and I know it 'helped' but it was far more likely the daily shots of penicillin that cured me.
Thank you but I am pretty cautious about what I insert anywhere--so the garlic clove up the tush is not happening.
For the severe nausea during pregnancy I did take a Tablespoon of coke 'syrup', and it really helped, but so did sipping on an ice cold coke in a glass.
You just reminded me of something awful. There was a girl at my high school that was a bit ‘off.’ Everyone knew it.
Kids are cruel. Someone told her that a girl got pregnant because a guy stuck his finger in her navel and she had to place a band-aid over her navel to protect herself. She did it!
I sat next to her in English class. She whispered in my ear that she was protected. I had no idea what she was talking about so I asked her to explain what she meant.
She told me that she was wearing a bandage over her navel and when I asked her why she told me which girls had told her that she could get pregnant if a boy stuck his finger in her navel.
I told her they lied and to take the bandage off and to speak to her mom about it after school and ask her to explain how a girl becomes pregnant.
Okay, my girls called them low rise jeans. We called them peanut jeans. Why peanut? Hell if I know why. And the platform shoes that our kids wear are crazy looking! LOL
My daughter and I had an argument about shoes that she would wear for her confirmation. I told her, we have a big church and many kids will be confirmed. Your feet will be killing you at the end of the night. She said, no they won’t, mom. So I let her find out for herself. At the reception afterwards in the church hall all of the girls had kicked off their shoes.
My word! A hot pot of tea, OUCH! Butter on your forehead. My gosh, how long before it healed?
That’s it! It was red and I think it stained clothes if it got on them.
Mom takes it in capsule form! Cod liver oil in a capsule. Yep, a doctor prescribed it years ago for her.
I don’t know how the nurses fixed it but my sister said that the doctor never admitted to his mistake.
The only wacky prescription I can remember at the moment are gin-soaked raisins for arthritis pain.
What was that red stuff they put on our cuts and scrapes? Can’t think of the name of it at the moment.
For myself, I just run cold water over the spot.