Thank you, and enjoy the memories!
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor, nor am I in any type of medical profession. I'm not advocating any of these cures. They are for entertainment only! If you decide to use them, please do so at your own risk. :-)
Ague
Vicks Vapor Rub: Was smeared on back, chest, nose and soles of feet, then bundled in hot wool blankets Barb
Asthma
Asthma relief from hot Tea or Coffee. Don Ryan
Athlete's Foot
The quickest cure for Athlete's Foot is Ting. You get it at the pharmacy. Chimes
Bags Under Eyes
For bags under the eyes, smooth on a dab of Preparation H under the eyes before going to bed (careful not to get it in the eyes)... "shrinks swollen tissues!" Rosanna
Bee Stings
My grandmother used sugar, some bar soap (Ivory I think) and spit. Mixed a poultice and covered with a gauze pad. Within 20 minutes, the stinger dislodged. Works good will thorns and splinters, too. Stacie
Moist snuff: (Grandpa always had a supply handy) Applied to bee and 'yellow jacket' stings. Dennis Palmer
Bluing: A dark blue liquid mother used in rinse water to make white clothes whiter. Also applied to bee and wasp
stings. Dennis Palmer
The juice of a green papaya is used as a meat tenderizer and also as a cure for a sting. The purple leafed vine - and I wish I knew it's name - it's used decoratively - also cures stiings. Barbara
For Bee stings, Wasps and etc. Granny mixed Snuff and Spit and put it on the sting ... she also would take Butter Milk and baking soda make a paste and put on our stings and bites ... Verna
For bee stings we used airplane glue for relief and removal of the stinger. Charles Diltz
Just one more remedy for bee stings. Real simple MUD--plain old mud. especialy if your out doors with no access to medications. By the way it also works for dogs. Julie
I grew up in tobacco fields. And spent most of my time bare foot. When I stepped on a honey bee, someone would put wet tobacco on it. I live in Texas now, and use tobacco from a cigarette (preferably a left over butt) to cure fire ant bites. works on yellow jacket stings too. With fire ants, they leave a permanent pustule that hardens...not if you use wet tobacco within 5 minutes. Charline Burress
Ice works wonderful on bee stings, especially if your child should get stung at a picnic. It takes the pain away and the sting site will not swell. It also won't itch after applying ice. Heidi
During an outdoor gathering, a friend of ours was stung by a wasp. It was very painful for him. His wife took plain toothpaste and rubbed it on the sting and amazingly enough it took the pain away immediately. So while my husband was building our deck he was stung by a yellow jacket and complained that it hurt. Thinking back to my friend using toothpaste on her husband's bee sting, I rubbed some on my husband's bee sting and it too took the pain away immediately! I understand that any brand of toothpaste will work. So now I keep a tube nearby while outdoors. Terri Huston
Slice an onion and tape it to the are where you are were stung. Works on all bee stings. My daughter stepped in a yellow jacket hive and I put onion on each of the bites before we went in for a shot. Indiana Joan
I use a baby aspirin to releive the pain from the sting. Take a baby aspirin and get it a bit wet.....wet enough to start to disolve into a paste and plaster it over the sting. Allow it to dry. My son used to capture honey bees in his hands all the time when he was little. This was the only thing that worked for him. When the baby aspirin flaked off one couldn't even tell where he'd been stung. Barbara
I was stung by many yellow jackets when young and my mother and father mixed up baking soda and water to a paste and put in on each bite. The pain was relieved immediately. But once it dried the pain came back some and reapplying was needed. When it dries it can be messy because of all the crumb like soda but you sure can put up with it if it takes the pain away. Tina
Our family uses a permanent black magic marker to rub over a sting after we have been stung. We were told this many years ago when I became highly allergic to any type of sting. I once got into a nest of yellow jackets and was stung 43 times. We had 3 people marking the spots with markers, and we missed 3 of them, and those swelled up really bad. We have a friend that has to get injections after she gets stung because she is so allergic, but the permanent magic marker slows down her reaction to the sting enough for her to get somewhere to get her shot. Feel free to ask me any questions on this. We live on a farm where wasp and bee stings are the norm, and this has been a life saver. The main thing, the magic marker has to be permanent, not washable, etc. Thanks, Becky
Blood Poisoning
My sister ran a pitch fork threw her foot while helping to put up hay, and she developed blood poison. My Uncle Chester's mother who was full blooded indian made a poultice for her foot. We went out and gathered sassafrases. She washed the sassafrases then enclosed it in a white cloth. Taking a butter knife she pounded this until it was pulverised and very juicy. To this was added 1 Tablespoon of sugar and enough can milk to make the poultice very damp. Se rubbed the concotion together then it was applied to my sister's foot. The poultice was replaced with a fresh one as needed. It was like a powerful drawing action that pulled the poison into the poultice. Gloria
Blood Thinner
Sassafras tea in the spring to thin the blood. Roy D. Hurley