Funny Stories of Old Fashion Remedies

[fmdog44]

I got this from Reminisce Magazine.
For a child's sore leg - open up and flatten a paper bag then soak it in vinegar then wrap the leg, cover with a towel and pin it with safety pins. The writer said she awoke the next day pain free.
One child had a cyst on his hand. His dad told him to place his hand on the table. The father then took a Bible and slammed the hand as hard ad he could. He wrote the cyst disappeared!
Drink Alka-Seltzer to keep insects off you.
One child had a an eczema rash reaction from a perm. Her mother took her to a man that had the fix. He sat her in a chair in front of a wood fire stove. He waved an egg over her head a he read the Bible then threw the egg in the fire. The rash went away.....eventually.
Whenever this child had a cold her mom made her drink a mug of boiled beer. She said it made her sweat and go to sleep.
A little got a big splinter in his toe. No one could get it out. His grandma wrapped it in a long strip of bacon and wrapped it with gauze. The next morning the splinter had come out.

 

[Keesha]

Or old wives tales.

 

[Pappy]

This is embarrassing but, my mom was a believer in warm, soapy enemas when I didn’t feel good. By the time I reached 6th grade, I had the cleanest guts in town. God, I hated those.

 

[Tommy]

One child had a cyst on his hand. His dad told him to place his hand on the table. The father then took a Bible and slammed the hand as hard ad he could. He wrote the cyst disappeared!

Getting rid of a ganglion cyst on the wrist by hitting it with a heavy book is an old and well established procedure. It works (sometimes) and doesn't cause further complications (usually) ... in other words, it isn't a recommended procedure. It is, however, about as effective as anything the medical establishment currently has to offer and is a LOT less expensive. That's why the practice still around.

Best bet - get it checked out by a doctor to make sure it is, in fact, a ganglion cyst (they're not dangerous). If it is, then just leave it alone. It may actually go away on it's own after a number of years.

 

[RadishRose]

Getting rid of a ganglion cyst on the wrist by hitting it with a heavy book is an old and well established procedure. It works (sometimes) and doesn't cause further complications (usually) ... in other words, it isn't a recommended procedure. It is, however, about as effective as anything the medical establishment currently has to offer and is a LOT less expensive. That's why the practice still around.

Best bet - get it checked out by a doctor to make sure it is, in fact, a ganglion cyst (they're not dangerous). If it is, then just leave it alone. It may actually go away on it's own after a number of years.

I knew someone whose father did this. It worked. I don't know what he used.

 

[RadishRose]

Early American settlers had some pretty strange notions when it came to eradicating acne. One involved the application of urine to the outbreaks. Another called for using the water that collected in old tree stumps to bathe pimpled skin.

From Merry Olde England spring some mighty strange sore throat remedies. One–which was actually used widely until the 20th century–called for wrapping your own dirty socks around your throat.

An old cure for “rheumatism” was to kill a rattlesnake before it had a chance to strike (always a good idea), skin it, dry it, and then put the remains in a jug of corn whiskey. Then, drink the whiskey. No surprise: There’s no science to support this (and it’s a little too dangerous to recommend). But there have been studies at Israel’s Shulov Institute for Science looking at the possibility that snake venom, with toxins removed, could become a potential remedy for arthritis.

 

[Ken N Tx]

Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties. She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea.


As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated, of all things, a condom! When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat.


The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist. "Miss Beatrice," he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl.


"Oh, yes," she replied, "Isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the Park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease."

 

[win231]

I was watching a TV show about this topic: In Thailand, there are storefronts with a picture of a King Cobra on the front. Inside the store are Cobras kept in cages. Couples who are having trouble starting a family will pay a lot of money to drink the blood of a Cobra. Their logic: Cobras give birth to many babies at a time, so these idiots think the snake's fertility will be passed on to them by drinking their blood.

 

[RadishRose]

try this from The Queens Closet Opened (1696): Take a turf of green grass, and lay it to the navel, and let it lie till you find ease; the green side must be laid next to the belly. (The Lady Drury’s medicine for the colic).

A mouse rotted and given to children to eat remedieth pissing the bed.
The Widow’s Treasure (1595).

An assured remedy for the plague, approved of throughout Venice in 1504
Take of a healthy male young child’s water, fine treacle and aniseed water, of each a like quantity, mingle them, and give about a quarter of a pint or a little more at a time of it to the patient in the morning fasting, for three mornings altogether; this hath cured many.
A brief collection of many rare secrets, Edward Fountaine (1650)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/julian-walker/12-strange-remedies-from-_b_5002506.html

​

 

[Keesha]

And some people think holistic nutrition is unusual.
This is CRAZY!!!!!
Ive somehow romanticized earlier times in the past.
I’m getting over that quickly.

 

[win231]

My mom always said, "Eating grapefruit helps you lose weight." Funny...she kept saying it even though it never worked on her.

She also said, "Drinking water makes you gain weight." She was frequently dehydrated.

 

[RadishRose]

My mom always said, "Eating grapefruit helps you lose weight." Funny...she kept saying it even though it never worked on her.

She also said, "Drinking water makes you gain weight." She was frequently dehydrated.

I remember a fad diet going around years ago called the grapefruit diet and people swore by it. I'm guessing that's what your mom had in mind, but I think there was more to it than just grapefruit.

 

[win231]

I remember a fad diet going around years ago called the grapefruit diet and people swore by it. I'm guessing that's what your mom had in mind, but I think there was more to it than just grapefruit.

Yes, there were several diets that involved grapefruit. Now that I remember clearly, she said, "Grapefruit burns fat."