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Title: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: vayotehowler on August 30, 2010, 09:54:49 PM
I posted something on antoher thread about farm cures. and was recommended might be good thread. so hear goes. my grandad's dad was a blacksmith and he sliced his food on a scythe and his dad took skin from and eggshell and coered it with axle grease and placed on the cut . grandad said next  his foot was like never been cut. My maternal granddad taught me how to remove a wart with a pinto bean. Circle the wart 7 times one direction 7 the other way and put a cross on top of the wart and place the bean in the winow sill. I have taken warts off like 10 people with that technique. Whats your mountian medicine??????
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: pitw on August 30, 2010, 10:08:48 PM
Quote from: vayotehowler on August 30, 2010, 09:54:49 PM
my grandad's dad was a blacksmith and he sliced his food on a scythe and his dad took skin from and eggshell and coered it with axle grease and placed on the cut . grandad said next  his foot was like never been cut. My maternal granddad taught me how to remove a wart with a pinto bean. Circle the wart 7 times one direction 7 the other way and put a cross on top of the wart and place the bean in the winow sill. I have taken warts off like 10 people with that technique. Whats your mountian medicine??????

I've seen this before  :shrug:.

Good job starting the new thread cause if the guys will put them up there are some great home remedy's ;yes;.
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: vayotehowler on August 30, 2010, 10:21:14 PM
who knows what might be lost . all kinds a good info already gone i sure . the bean thing really is amazing took one off my step mother pinkie, did one weekend when visiting , used to go everyother weekend to my dads. Next time i went back she rubbing her pinkie saying I go this patch of dry skin and said that is where ur wart was and she peeldit off and never came back
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Post by: alscalls on August 31, 2010, 07:18:59 AM
For a bee sting my mom used to put mud, or toothpaste on em........ Bee stings dont bother me much so I never used this as an adult till my wife got stung....... She welts up real bad with em so I used mud on it and it really seemed to do the trick.
As the mud or toothpaste dries it draws in the sting and takes a lot of the pain away.
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Post by: KySongDog on August 31, 2010, 07:28:52 AM
For bee stings, mom would put some wet cigarette tobacco on the spot and hold it there for a while.
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Post by: coyote101 on August 31, 2010, 07:32:15 AM
If we got hurt, my dad would say, "It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"; worked every time!

Pat
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Post by: Hawks Feather on August 31, 2010, 08:05:07 AM
Quote from: coyote101 on August 31, 2010, 07:32:15 AM
If we got hurt, my dad would say, "It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"; worked every time!
Pat

Yep, and "If you don't stop crying, I will give you something to cry about."

Jerry
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Post by: Todd Rahm on August 31, 2010, 10:39:12 AM
I once had a lady look into a crystal ball, and she said your slightly over weight and going bald. Cost me a dollar.  :shrug:  :alscalls:
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: FinsnFur on August 31, 2010, 01:44:05 PM
Cant say I ever heard the pinto bean wart thing :confused: Sounds a lil mythical  :huh:
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Todd Rahm on August 31, 2010, 01:52:06 PM
QuoteSounds a lil mythical

Kinda like Fo's monkey thing. Today's monkeys are doing it but not sure why earlier monkeys did.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Silencer on August 31, 2010, 03:02:31 PM
the oils from snap draggon flowers help if you get into the nettles.   Being raised by my grandparents I was treated with alot of old remidies like this.   
Used mud on bee stings for sure,  trying to dig my brain.....
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Todd Rahm on August 31, 2010, 06:16:28 PM
Read this blog and pay particular attention to the entry right after the fith picture about "Tums".  :biggrin:

http://finnskimo.blogspot.com/2010/08/pokey-little-puppy.html
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: bambam on August 31, 2010, 07:34:44 PM
When I was much younger I used to go spend weekends with my Grandma and Grandad. I was splitting wood for the wood cookstove one weekend and ran a rusty nail into my foot. My Grandma made milktoast- fried bread and milk in a castiron skillet- placed some over the hole in my foot , wrapped it with a clean rag, and left it for several hours, if I remember correctly,  it seemed like several days,  :doh2: :doh2: . The next day it didn't hurt a bit and never got infected .
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Bills Custom Calls on August 31, 2010, 07:41:40 PM
A half a cup of hot water and a t spoon of ginger mix well and drink wrap yourself up and go to bed and be prepared  to sweat the cold,flu,fever right out of your body all will be better in the morning


This mixture taste horrible
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Post by: HaMeR on August 31, 2010, 08:11:11 PM
For mosquito bites I scratch em good then dab rubbing alcohol on them. It stings for about 2 seconds & then the irritation is gone.
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Post by: vayotehowler on August 31, 2010, 08:31:35 PM
good information , the toabacco was recommended for my four yr old when he got stung by a wasp , was in the swimming pool and said mommy what making my leg hurt . didn t even cry , she pulled up the shorts and wasp fell out, then he cried . The wart thing is amazing, My mom worked with a lady her son had liek 60 warts ( ala that guy turnin into tree) on both arms and papa sat down with a bag of beans and treated every one , about a month later the dermotoligist was freake out they had all disaapeared. doesnt work on a seed wart or plantar wart( CUT THE TOP OFF AND SQUEEZE THE SEED OUT hurts like a breed worthy dog if know what mean and bleeds like a kid w/out a daddy but goes away)  2 or 3  shot of rock and rye whiskey  with hot tea . wake up w u cold gone to . taste horrible
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Bills Custom Calls on August 31, 2010, 08:39:53 PM
Vinegar and salt mixture put it on poison ivy rash after you scratch it open this will disinfect and aid in drying it up it will take more then one dose and it will burn more then you can imagine but it does work  :whew:
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: vayotehowler on August 31, 2010, 08:44:03 PM
I scratch it off and put bleach on it ( sitngs for a minute or two and then feels better sounds familiar)
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Post by: Todd Rahm on August 31, 2010, 08:52:18 PM
Yipper, I'll regret it later, but bleach is my cure all for rashes and ivy's.  ;yes;
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Post by: coyote101 on August 31, 2010, 09:12:02 PM
There's a whole chapter in here about "Home remedies". Pretty interesting stuff, like what has already been posted in this thread.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/CaseyCreekAugust2010001-1.jpg)

Here is a whole book full. I got it at a yard sale some time ago, but have never read it. Maybe I will now.
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/CaseyCreekAugust2010004-1.jpg)

Pat
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Post by: Bills Custom Calls on August 31, 2010, 09:16:11 PM
Pat I think I have the same book

Vinegar is used for lowering high blood pressure,acid stomach,aid in weight loss,leg cramps and the list goes on.I have a book here that has many different mixtures in it for many different cures
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: CCP on August 31, 2010, 09:21:00 PM

I grew up on a farm and Black Draught or Castor oil could fix any internal ailment you could have below the neck. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/b-1.gif)

Any ailment above the neck a good shot of whiskey and honey would work.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/2blind.gif)

Any external ailment all you needed  to put on it was either rubbing alcohol or a plug of tobacco.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/others-140.gif)
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: vayotehowler on August 31, 2010, 09:25:26 PM
castor oil used to be the cure all for everything, they use the castior bean to make ricin poison . stepdad had a huge mole like growth on his ear and treated with castor oil every day for a mnth and disappeared
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Post by: vayotehowler on August 31, 2010, 09:26:09 PM
neck.
we need that emoticon on here
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Post by: FinsnFur on August 31, 2010, 09:46:54 PM
Pat, was Jimmies picture in any of them books?
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: coyote101 on August 31, 2010, 10:03:07 PM
Quote from: FinsnFur on August 31, 2010, 09:46:54 PM
Pat, was Jimmies picture in any of them books?

Could be Jim, can't be sure.  :shrug: I know I'm not going anywhere near this guy in a canoe, no matter what his name is.  :rolleye:
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/rlageman/CaseyCreekAugust2010.jpg)

Pat
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: vvarmitr on September 01, 2010, 07:41:38 AM
A skeeter bite that won't quit itchin'.
Put Vick's Vapor Rub on it.

Got a scratchy throat & feel a cold coming on?
A quarter teaspoon of baking soda in some water & down couple of aspirin w/ it.
When you rift (burp) let it go up your nose.  It works.  :biggrin:
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Post by: FinsnFur on September 01, 2010, 04:19:56 PM
Thats Boxcar willy
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: HaMeR on September 01, 2010, 06:30:50 PM
For poison ivy I put thinner on a paper towel & rub it across the affected area. It stinks worse than it burns.  :laf: :laf:
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: coyotehunter_1 on September 01, 2010, 08:53:48 PM
Quote from: CCP on August 31, 2010, 09:21:00 PM
  I grew up on a farm and Black Draught or Castor oil could fix any internal ailment you could have below the neck. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/b-1.gif)

Any ailment above the neck a good shot of whiskey and honey would work.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/2blind.gif)

Any external ailment all you needed  to put on it was either rubbing alcohol or a plug of tobacco.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/others-140.gif)



Amen to all that  :puke: and the whiskey and honey too.  :eyebrownod:

Anyone remember a product called "Blue Violet Ointment"..  it stained your skin a very deep blue where ever applied... cured anything from cuts
to the mange.  :laf:


Spray deodorant also dries up a poison ivy rash as does white shoe polish.
Title: Re: farmers cures/mountain medicine
Post by: Bopeye on September 04, 2010, 06:18:03 PM
Grandma use to put kerosene on any kind of cut, even if it needed stitches. Good Antiseptic she claimed.
Grandpa put sugar on any cut. I know it's a good antibacterial.
If you have a bite or boil you can cut up a potato and put it on the place. Draws the junk out.
AS mentioned before a chaw of used tobacco on a sting worked well.
Liquor and honey was called a "Hot Totty". Worked from anything concerning cold bugs or flu.
Can't remember the tree for sure anymore, but grandpa use to strip the bark off a young one (maybe a willow, but not sure) and let it soak in a tub for several hours. Then he'd put you in it to cure poison Ivy.