Mom had a cure for most everything

37chief · Dec 8, 2015

I have been taking some pain medicine for my shoulder. The stuff is getting me bound up, if you know what I mean. Growing up mom would get out the castor oil, or break out the enema bottle. I have neither, and would not use them if I did have them. I got some pills from the pharmacy. The instructions said take 1 or 3 as needed. The pills were real small, so I took all there, and a glass of prune juice. Tomorrow I will probably take 1, maybe 2, and no prune juice. Mom had another cure for a cold. Mom would rub Vicks on our chest at bed time. Anything you remember as a home cure? Stan

ray hofstetter · Dec 8, 2015

Mom used to tie a wool sock around my neck,, can't remember if it was for a sore throat, or if she was just trying to choke me....

OliverGuy · Dec 8, 2015

Half inch of southern comfort for a sore throat. She would probably be arrested now!

daisyman · Dec 8, 2015

Yep, and then in the morning she would wash it off and I don't remember anything that was COLDER than that. Brr!

JimB2 · Dec 8, 2015

Don't forget the mustard plaster for sore throat or chest cold along with vicks vapour rub.
Iodine went on every cut or scrape. Warm olive oil for earache.
JimB

JimS · Dec 8, 2015

My dad though laughter was the best medicine. Probably why he died from heart disease.

Greg1959 · Dec 8, 2015

Vics Vap-Rub on chest, throat and upper lip then put on T-shirt that stuck to you all night, Two Bayer childrens aspirin. Tube sock tied around your neck. And the final touch...Two spoonfuls of Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup. (YUK!)

Also, hot mist vaporizer with Vics Salve added into it.

You woke up the next morning sticky/greasy and covered in sweat but feeling better.

I miss Mom.

notjustair · Dec 8, 2015

Lucky - we had to have Mercurichrome on cuts. Dad called it monkey blood. Want to talk about hitting the ceiling. Whew that burned. That cured you of asking for a bandaid. I spent a lot of years hiding wounds because of that vile liquid with the glass dauber in the lid.

Eldon (WA) · Dec 8, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:50:26 12/08/15) Lucky - we had to have Mercurichrome on cuts. Dad called it monkey blood. Want to talk about hitting the ceiling. Whew that burned. That cured you of asking for a bandaid. I spent a lot of years hiding wounds because of that vile liquid with the glass dauber in the lid.

That and hydrogen peroxide that foamed up nice and white. Also "pleasant relief"??? a pink raleighs product for stomach aches

JayinNY · Dec 8, 2015

Gargle with hot salt water for a sore throat.

Greg1959 · Dec 8, 2015

We use to brush our teeth with baking soda and a pinch of salt while growing up.

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Dec 9, 2015

My mother thought that Cod Liver Oil would cure anything! I think that is why I do not like fish now. It smells like Cod Liver Oil. UGH!!

rrlund · Dec 9, 2015

Pepto-Bismal was the cure for everything. I most have drank 20 gallons of that stuff as a kid.

JerryS · Dec 9, 2015

Milk of magnesia and Grove's Chill Tonic are the main medications I remember, as well as one of those squeeze-bulb atomizers to spray a sore throat. A nail in the foot required soaking in coal oil (kerosene).

Craig45 · Dec 9, 2015

For sore throat, mom would have us gargle with warm salt water with a drop of iodine in it. Seemed to work

fixerupper · Dec 9, 2015

My mom was a nurse and she didn't get too excited when I got a cold or the flu. Mostly I had to suffer through it. My parents were very conservative spenders so there wasn't anything like Vapo Rub in the medicine chest. Come to think of it about the only thing we had in the medicine chest was aspirin. If I was congested a steam tent was made by throwing a towel over my head and making me lean over a pot of plain boiling water. Like someone else mentioned, machuricrome (sp) was applied to a cut and yes it did send me to the ceiling. The only time I went to Dr Noble was for a vaccination shot of some sort or to get sewn back up. Mom must have thought my sis and I were pin cushions because we were nnalert for everything under the sun. She was a polio survivor and she didn't want us to get a major disease like she did.

GregCO · Dec 10, 2015

Grandma always did the Vicks or Mentholatum rub on our chest and one of grandpas t shirts over the top. Then got out the old hot water vaporizer. Odd looking thing. All glass and had a flexible metal snout on it. Add a scoop of Mentholatum to that too. Always felt better in the morning.
Mercurochrome on all cuts. Nothing like a little mercury to make you feel better. Turpentine was used too on cuts.
Mom always gave us a shot of rum or whiskey for a sore throat and sent us to bed. Probably didn't do anything other than shut us up and make us sleep.
Bump on the head always got a cold butter knife handle put on it and pushed hard. Hurt more then the bump. we quit complaining though so I guess it worked.

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