LVSteve
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My folks used to give me bourbon and ginger when I had a cold or whatever when we lived in Ft Worth. I was seven, and decided to tell everybody at one particular party. Some hilarity followed.
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My folks used to give me bourbon and ginger when I had a cold or whatever when we lived in Ft Worth. I was seven, and decided to tell everybody at one particular party. Some hilarity followed.
Yeah I was slathered with mercurochrome hundreds of times. I much preferred it to merthiolate which stung while the mercurochrome didn't. Hydrogen peroxide was used an anything that needed cleaning out or was showing infection. When I was 5th grade or so I got rope burn from a tree swing at a friends house and his father used a spray on me that IIRC was tannic acid. That lit me up good. Prid or the black drawing Ichthammol salve were effective. I still use peroxide, and Ichthammol salve. I now use Betadine solution in place of the mercurochrome or merthiolate. And yeah I use Bag Balm.
It was mercurochrome and Watkins Petro-Carbo salve for my brothers and I. I still keep a can of Petro-Carbo salve around.
We still use Bag Balm here. I had no idea that mercurochrome was outlawed in the states. It must have worked. I preferred it ove the sting of iodine. My mother use camphophenique (sp) quite a bit, as it had no sting. I guess it worked.
My dad would give me a spoonful of Crown Royal for a sore throat.
We have used some real old time remedies in our family and I would swear in court that they work. Got stung by a bee or similar insect? Cut a slice of raw onion and tape it on the sting. The venom will be pulled out in a short period of time. It works. I've done it.
Then there is a new twist on an old remedy. I burned the corner of my mouth on some melted cheese. I tried using some lip balm of unknown age or origin but I wasn't getting any relief, and after close to a week the burned area just kept recracking. So I was out shopping and in the pharmacy area of the store I spotted a tube of lip balm by Burt's Bees. The primary ingredient is beeswax. I had heard of honey being used to dress wounds so I connected the dots and decided to buy a tube of it. I used it for two days and my mouth was healed up. Those other lip balms went in the wastebasket.
Then there is a new twist on an old remedy. I burned the corner of my mouth on some melted cheese. I tried using some lip balm of unknown age or origin but I wasn't getting any relief, and after close to a week the burned area just kept recracking. So I was out shopping and in the pharmacy area of the store I spotted a tube of lip balm by Burt's Bees. The primary ingredient is beeswax. I had heard of honey being used to dress wounds so I connected the dots and decided to buy a tube of it. I used it for two days and my mouth was healed up. Those other lip balms went in the wastebasket.
Covers most things that happen around the house. Pretty sure the New Skin stuff is like the Super Glue I've used in the past. Haven't tried it yet.
I never taster Jagermeister but I did try Coke lime when it first came out. Maybe not exactly the same but my first thought was paragoric and I dumped the rest.
LVSteve
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Covers most things that happen around the house. Pretty sure the New Skin stuff is like the Super Glue I've used in the past. Haven't tried it yet.
Nope, nope, nope on the Neosporin. I'm allergic to the stuff. My doc reckons a lot of people become allergic to it as they get older.
AZ Buckshot Bill
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I was wondering if any of us 'ol timers remembered Watkins Petro-Carbo salve.
When I was a kid in the '50's, my Grandpa was a farmer/ carpenter/ mechanic/ and a number of other things just to get by.
He was also a Watkins products dealer and we always had a round flat can of that greenish blue axle grease lookin' stuff in the medicine cabinet. It looked really odd but by God it worked to keep infection away and get things to heal up if you got a cut or a skinned up knee.
It might still be available in you can find a Watkins dealer.
BB
Interesting. I do not recall ever having diarrhea while drinking Jäger... Perhaps that's why?
Jäger tastes like NyQuil.
crstrode
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Blu-Kote. Still available and still works great
My mom kept only 2 things handy. Absorbine Jr. and Balm Ben Gay. Any And every open wound/sore, regardless of the severity, got the Absorbine Jr. and any head/chest cold got the Ben Gay ,which was, I believe, a precursor to Vick's Vaporub.
johnjohn
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My inlaws were of the opinion that Vicks Vapo rub would fix anything from ingrown toenails to cancer.
My dad grew up poor on a Kentucky dirt farm with four brothers. His mom would scrub their cuts and scrapes with lye soap and stove water, slap wild honey on and a bandage. Dad said they always healed quickly and rarely left a scar. He swore by it.
Whenever dad had boo-boo duty out came the honey jar.
Whenever dad had boo-boo duty out came the honey jar.
We called it Blue Cote. It works miracles. I still keep a can of Venice Turpentine,takes the soreness out right away. I also may have a tin of Bag Balm for those chapped areas.
This thread got me to remembering. When I was a kid prowling around in the woods, fields and ponds, I about got ate up by ticks and chiggers. And not just once, but all the time. I always was kinda slow I suppose. I looked like someone had patterned a load of number 9 shot on me all summer. It's a wonder those little monsters didn't kill me just from the blood loss. My mothers cure was (1) rubbing alcohol as I've mentioned earlier, and a couple of ga-lops (that's a trade term of mothers I believe) of Lysol in my bath water.
I don't know if it helped the chigger bites, but it sure gave me a distinct smell.
Today, I won't go near the woods until after the first frost.
I don't know if it helped the chigger bites, but it sure gave me a distinct smell.
Today, I won't go near the woods until after the first frost.
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I recall a heart surgeon commenting that "This is the truth as we know it until future research proves it false".
