Make me well

[meningreentights]

I have a theory about why a lot of us are tough survivors. Our 100% cotton underwear was dried on a clothesline in the hot sun. If wearing those doesn't toughen up your butt, nothing will.

 

[meningreentights]

LaFemme, maybe, just maybe, you should eat a case of chocolate covered almonds. It won't cure you but you'll die happy.

 

[LaFemme]

LaFemme, maybe, just maybe, you should eat a case of chocolate covered almonds. It won't cure you but you'll die happy.

Ok, that’s a cure I can live with!

 

[LaFemme]

I have a theory about why a lot of us are tough survivors. Our 100% cotton underwear was dried on a clothesline in the hot sun. If wearing those doesn't toughen up your butt, nothing will.

Aha! I knew there’s a reason I’m a tough little cookie!

 

[LaFemme]

My Mum's remedy for any illness was always a huge mug of warm tea with lots of lemon. So much lemon! She would sometimes put zest in the bottom of a cup before pouring the tea.

Grandma was the worst with home remedies. She was born in 1891.
Salt water gargle seems to be universal. Honey and lemon too. The honey soothes, and lemons open up congested areas. Put the juice of a whole fresh lemon in a glass of water. Drink it at least 5 times a day until the congestion has broken up. You'll swear you're getting worse because it's working. Salt water up the nose to cut mucus.
Don't forget having to soak anything injured in boiling hot Epsom salts water. Poultice made from peach tree bark. Enemas for fever. Buttermilk baths to get rid of freckles.
The most dreaded one of all, a fresh bottle of Iodine. If you stepped on something, a swab of fresh Iodine was jabbed deep in the wound hole. Trust me, you'd be super careful from then on. My brother did it once. He screamed so loudly that I never went barefooted in my grandparents yard.

Yep. Lemon. Honey. Salt water gargles. I still do that stuff. Swear by it. I don’t know that it actually helps, but it makes me feel better and it beats the onion cure.

Iodine, nope. No thank you. Been there. No, no, no.

 

[EllieP]

Yep. Lemon. Honey. Salt water gargles. I still do that stuff. Swear by it. I don’t know that it actually helps, but it makes me feel better and it beats the onion cure.

Iodine, nope. No thank you. Been there. No, no, no.

Oh, iodine is crazy! On a four-day canoe trip I took out my water filter to purify some creek water, and one of my older paddle buddies said I was playing with fire. He said iodine worked much better to purify water than my Sawyer filter. I never used iodine tablets before, but when I took a sip I realized that I would never use iodine again! That's such a weird taste! I'll take my chances with a 99.9% filter.

 

[LaFemme]

Oh, iodine is crazy! On a four-day canoe trip I took out my water filter to purify some creek water, and one of my older paddle buddies said I was playing with fire. He said iodine worked much better to purify water than my Sawyer filter. I never used iodine tablets before, but when I took a sip I realized that I would never use iodine again! That's such a weird taste! I'll take my chances with a 99.9% filter.

No kidding. Disgusting stuff! Blech!

 

[185248]

Think of the thin

Okay I’m off work this week with a deadly chest infection. Saw the doctor and yes, I’ll live (thanks for asking) but I’m on antibiotics and a steroid puffer.

So other than the fact that I can post like crazy, I was thinking about weird cures and things that we do to makes ourselves feel better.

I had a mom straight from Poland. She used to make the onion cure. Know what that is? I will tell you.

Slice an onion. Get white sugar. Alternate layers of onion and sugar in a glass jar. Cover tightly. Let it sit on the counter overnight. Force your sick “loved ones” to drink this by the tablespoon until they convince you they aren’t sick anymore. Refrigerate the leftovers. Get rid of the evidence in a couple of days.

So got anything worse? Anything better?

I remember the only thing was a steamy bathroom, over a basin of hot water mixed with Vick's Vapour rub...towel overhead breathing deeply. If you did not recover .......ahh well, rip.

The other was Potassium Permanganate crystals.....any infection on your body a warm bath with a few crystals to turn the water purple rescued us all from skin infections to thrush. It worked. (not only good for Carnations )

I still bathe the old dog in Potassium crystal baths...............my dad used to do it for his racing pigeons...from memory, he was the best flyer in Australia......and no birds dropped dead from his care...cept when he wanted them too



Now it's all quarterzone creams...pills and injection. And we wonder why the young become dependent on drugs and injection...

 

[Squirrel1]

From the sounds of it, most of these folk remedies sound pretty repulsive. Maybe just not admitting you were sick, so you wouldn't have to take one, was the real cure.

 

[185248]

From the sounds of it, most of these folk remedies sound pretty repulsive. Maybe just not admitting you were sick, so you wouldn't have to take one, was the real cure.

Yup, through all our repulsiveness................we survived, you were born. Now, in the land of pill and needle.......we are becoming less immune to age old bacteria and disease.

Go figure.

I'm pretty sure who will win on the bacteria front....Nature or Human.

 

[ronin001]

JUst checking up, on the pretty lady, to say hey ; and see if you have made a full recovery yet

 

[LaFemme]

JUst checking up, on the pretty lady, to say hey ; and see if you have made a full recovery yet

Not quite full. Still coughing and tired, but I did go out and clean my car, so that’s something. Thanks for asking!

 

[Industrialsize]

Omg. Us Polish folks can take anything and turn it into a cure. And the other half of me is Indigenous - ain’t no part of anything going to waste!

Dzień dobry, jak się masz?!!!!!!!!! Hello to my fellow Pole. All 4 of my grandparents are from the same village in Poland, Dąbrowa Białostocka. I did my ancestry dna and got back 100% eastern European. Do you speak any Polish? You must have seen one of these signs of the Season:

 

[LaFemme]

Dobrze dziękuję! My mom was from Białystok. I used to speak some Polish, and I still understand a little, but I lost a lot after mom and my grandmother passed away. And I definitely saw that! I still visit the Polish store for some Polish treats to remind me of my mom.

Oh, and I cook some pretty good Polish food!

Dzień dobry, jak się masz?!!!!!!!!! Hello to my fellow Pole. All 4 of my grandparents are from the same village in Poland, Dąbrowa Białostocka. I did my ancestry dna and got back 100% eastern European. Do you speak any Polish? You must have seen one of these signs of the Season:
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