What home remedies did your parents have ??

The rubbing alchohol post had me thinking


My mother used to put a slice of RAW bacon on our splinters to "draw it out"


I also vividly remember my mother giving me "sugar water" bottles

And to help me sleep milk with melted butter in it at night ! I remember asking her to make it for me

Any others ???

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i used the sugar water with my son when he has hiccups...worked like a charm

my mom used clove oil on our gums when we were teething or alochol lol

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No matter what the problem was.... splinter, strep throat, broken arm, bruised ego, my dad's all-purpose remedy was...

"Take your socks off. Let your dogs breathe."

27 years later, I don't know whether to or

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some of this is going to sound horrible, and its going to be a wonder that more isn't wrong with me that already is

for colds she gave us, tea with honey and a a teaspoon of cognac

if we had a fever, she'd give us crushed up antibiotic mixed with sugar water on a spoon (I don't know how, but she always had a stash of antibiotics, she was like an antibiotic dealer)

milk with butter for sleep (seems to be a common one)

butter on any kind of burn, and on irritated skin like after I had my first upper lip wax

chicken soup with garlic and vinegar, to this day crave it when I get sick

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milk with butter? NEVER heard of that!

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This is not really a home remedy but my grandmother swore by Thantis lozenges. It was basically mercurochrome in a throat lozenge. I had frequent sore throats and this stuff really worked. I later did some reading and learned that many of the throat lozenges that our grandparents used contained painkillers that are now controlled substances. I never found out whether Thantis were in that category but I know they contained mercury. Antique collectors are now shelling out big bucks for the ads for this stuff!! My mom has strict instructions to hoard them for me if she ever finds them again!!!!!!

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Liquor on the gums for teething..whatever was around, I specifically remember getting brandy out of the liquor cabinet for my little sister when she was an infant and DS's first xmas they were rummaging for whiskey for DS at my aunt's house.

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I am old but I wonder if you girls remember mecuricome? My parents used to put this on everything, scrapes, cuts, splinters etc

Mecuricome

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warm milk if we couldn't sleep (no butter...never heard of that)
alcohol on gums for teething
warm tea bag on eye if we had a stye
oatmeal baths (before Aveeno)




interesting thread!!

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Posted by booklove83

No matter what the problem was.... splinter, strep throat, broken arm, bruised ego, my dad's all-purpose remedy was...

"Take your socks off. Let your dogs breathe."

27 years later, I don't know whether to or

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Mylanta and aquaphor for diaper rash hands down the quickest and best remedy.

clove oil for teething

aloe for cuts- my mom had an aloe plant and would break open a leaf and get the aloe for the cut.

Ginger ale for a stomach ache- although that's not a great one any more because it's the ginger that settles the stomach and now most soda have "ginger flavoring" not actual ginger. You have to check the labels

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Warm milk to sleep and she made this orange juice, warm cocktail for puking and the runs.

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Coming from India my family had tons of pretty odd remedies.

-Alcohol baths for fevers
-raw egg yolks in the baby bottle to help baby sleep better at night
-whiskey mixed with sugar for teething (its not that our gums didnt hurt anymore...we passed out from being drunk!!)
-full body baby oil rub downs (come to realize it was just Nana giving us a massage and the oil made it easier to glide her hands on us)
-If you had a belly ache from gas that you couldnt pass, my mother would fry an egg and make you smell it. I just think that the smell of the sulfur made you want to go LOL

There are so many others
But the one that confuses me to this day was something my grandmother would do if we had a stomach ache not gas related. She would spray a strong perfume directly into our bellybutton. I have no idea why, but it worked.

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My mother would always give us Won Ton Soup when we were sick! Got us cured in no time!

And also, apparently going toTennis with her (on our sick days) made us better quickly! The smell of tennis balls still reminds me of my Mom!!

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Posted by OrganicMama

Posted by labonnevie

milk with butter? NEVER heard of that!

Me either! LOL

It must be a NY thing!

What home remedies did your parents have ??

my grandma used to put me in alcohol baths when I had a fever - I hated those, the smell - yuck!!!

wow, old post, stumbled upon this somehow...lol

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What home remedies did your parents have ??

My MIL insists on rubbing a warm hard boiled egg on my son's face bruise since she says that it will help heal it.