> That's pretty ironic, isn't it, in light of this thread? But, there are > lots of old folk remedies (for humans and for animals) that are either > useless or downright harmful. Some may work, but I don't lightly buy into > folk remedies without doing a lot of checking first.<<
oh lord tell me about it! My parents thought spirits of turpentine could cure brain cancer, If you had a chest cold they would give you a teaspoon of sugar soaked in turpentine, if you hit your finger with a hammer they would soak it in turpentine to take away the soreness. if you had a cut, turpentine. i dont know if its cause we were always the turpentine capitol of the universe here or what... also kerosene was considered medicinal, and also moonshine. I had on occasion been seriously medicated with moonshine medicinally as a painkiller. also, and this is a good one.... spider webs as an anti clotting agent. if you cut your jugular or femoral artery and blood was spurting in geysers my mom would yell at you for making a mess and go looking for a spider web to stuff into the wound. and you probably dont want to hear about heated tar for pulled muscles, a backache etc or boiled onions in rags for you to breathe in the vapors. we didnt have one of those nice plastic vaporizers you put vicks salve in. we had turpentine applied liberally around our noseholes. also, when cheryl posted about cod liver oil being toxic i was cringeing and thinking oh yesssss cod liver oillllll, oh my i have HAD plenty of cod liver oil! whooo! not to mention i was the only actual human being i have ever heard of to be hospitalized for worms, when i was five years old, hookworms actually, but then my brother brought a friend over and after they left she turned to me and shook her head and said "he is wormy!" me and my sister laughed and laughed about that. then the guy got a mystery illness and went everywhere, even the mayo clinic and they found out just before he died he had some strange tropical worm. and he died! anyway. this isnt very yuppie i know... janice -- yipie tie yie yo
