farmers cures/mountain medicine

[Bills Custom Calls]

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

[CCP]

I grew up on a farm and Black Draught or Castor oil could fix any internal ailment you could have below the neck.

Any ailment above the neck a good shot of whiskey and honey would work.

Any external ailment all you needed  to put on it was either rubbing alcohol or a plug of tobacco.

[vayotehowler]

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

[vayotehowler]

neck.
we need that emoticon on here

[FinsnFur]

Pat, was Jimmies picture in any of them books?

[coyote101]

Pat, was Jimmies picture in any of them books?

Could be Jim, can't be sure.   I know I'm not going anywhere near this guy in a canoe, no matter what his name is.  


Pat

[vvarmitr]

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. 

[FinsnFur]

Thats Boxcar willy

[HaMeR]

For poison ivy I put thinner on a paper towel & rub it across the affected area. It stinks worse than it burns. 

[coyotehunter_1]

  I grew up on a farm and Black Draught or Castor oil could fix any internal ailment you could have below the neck.

Any ailment above the neck a good shot of whiskey and honey would work.

Any external ailment all you needed  to put on it was either rubbing alcohol or a plug of tobacco.

Amen to all that  and the whiskey and honey too. 

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. 


Spray deodorant also dries up a poison ivy rash as does white shoe polish.

[Bopeye]

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.