Home.Remedies.Breckinridge.HISTORY-OtherFrom: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:04 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Home.Remedies.Breckinridge.HISTORY-Other Home Remedies Breckinridge County KyArchives History Other Book Title: "A Glimpse Of The Past" (It appears that there are several different home remedies that are listed under various headings. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT SOME OF THESE. SOME WILL GREATLY AFFECT YOUR HEALTH IN AN ADVERSE WAY.) Aching Feet Bath feet before bedtime in a strong solution made from white oak bark. Make a real hot tea of burdock. Soak feet in the tea just before going to bed. To make the tea, use the whole plant, including roots. Arthritis Eat lots of raw vegetables and fruit Take a buckeye and put it in your pocket and carry it around with you. Make a tea by boiling the roots of ginseng. Drink the tea or rub it on the joints. You can mix the roots of ginseng and goldenseal together in liquor. Asthma Use the inner bark of wild yellow plum trees. Knock the old bark off and scrape down next to the wood and use these scrapings along with mullein leaves. Boil these together with sage leaves for about twenty minutes. Add alum to the tea after it is strained one teaspoon of alum to a quart of tea. Drink about two big tablespoonfuls of the tea every morning every night, about twelve hours apart on the doses. Bedbugs Tote the bed frames and the slats outside and scald them every month or two in boiling water and lye soap. The bedbugs lay their eggs in the wood. Then change the straw in the ticks every fall. Apply kerosene liberally to all parts of the beds. Bleeding Put kerosene oil on the cut. To stop bleeding, take soot from the back of a fireplace in an old chimney and press against cut. Wash the soot out when blood clots or it will leave a scar. Blood Purifier Mix just a tiny bit of alum and saltpeter together in water and drink it. Blood Tonic Make a tea of bloodroot. Soak rusty nails in water and drink the water. Boils, Risings, and Sores Mash up a rotten apple, place on the rising and tie a cloth around it. Make a mixture of kerosene, turpentine, Vaseline and old-time lye soap. Apply Green Slave. (Recipe for Green Salve: One ounce beeswax Two ounces mutton tallow One ounce olive or sweet oil One ounce oil of amber One ounce verdegrease One ounce resin One ounce oil of spike Simmer first four ingredients together; add verdegrease and resin, well powdered; then add oil of spike) Burns Put baking soda on the burn. The white of an egg and castor oil stirred up together is just as good a thing as you can put on a burn. Stops the pain and makes it heal up right quick. Cut a potato in two at the middle and lay the cut part against the burn. Bind the potato to the burned place with a handkerchief. In ten minutes, you can't even tell you've been burned. It takes out the fire. Let the potato stay there until it turns black. The the place where the burn was will be as white as cotton. If you get the potato on fast enough, it won't even blister. Chapped Hands Rub hands in a mixture of homemade soap and cornmeal. Bring the soap and meal to a good lather. Rub hands with warm mutton tallow. Chills Drink a strong tea made from the leaves of pennyroyal. Mix quinine with water. You put just what would lie on the point of a knife blade and mix it in a teaspoon of water and stir it up. TAke that and it will break the chills right away. Put ginger and sugar in hot water. Drink this and go to bed. Chest Congestion Mix lard and turpentine together, put it on a cloth and put that on your chest. Make a tea from just the leaves of catnip, pouring boiling water over the leaves and sweeten it. To keep catnip through the winter, gather the leaves, dry them out and keep them in a container where they can get a lot of air. They will keep a long time. Constipation Take about two teaspoons of turpentine. Give kids two teaspoons of castor oil and give adults two teaspoons of Epson salts. Cooties-Lice Shave head and wash with apple vinegar. Corns Tie five little flint rocks up in a rag. Throw them away at the forks of a road. When someone picks up the rag to see what is in it, your corns will go away and they will get them. Cough Drink ginger tea. Make it by mixing one tablespoon whiskey and one teaspoon honey and a dash of ginger mixed in one fourth cup hot water. Mix one cup liquor to one half cup of honey and the juice of one lemon. Croup Mix groundhog grease, turpentine and a little lamp oil together. dip a rag into the mixture and saturate it. then lay that on your chest. To prevent croup in children, make a bib from a piece of chamois skin. Melt together some pine pitch and tallow and rub it into the bib. Have the child wear it all the time. Cuts and Sores Pound a dock root until it is soft and juice comes out of it. Put enough sweet cream on it to cover it. Rub the mixture on a cut or sore. Diarrhea Boil a ladies slipper plant in water. Strain the water off and drink. Get some soot off the back of the chimney. Put a teaspoon of that soot in a glass of wather. Let the soot settle out and drink the clear water. Earache Blow smoke from rabbit tobacco in the ear. Put a drop or two of warm castor oil in the ear. Take the good meat out of a walnut. put it into a bag and beat it up. Then dip this into warm water. Afterwards, squeeze the excess water and walnut oil into the ear. Fever Boil half a cup of wall ink ine leaves to a quart of water. Give two teaspoons three times a day. Headache A headache is an inner fever in the stomach. You have got fever in your stomach and it doesn't show up anywhere else but up here in your head. You take something for the stomach, like a wee dose of Epsom salt. You take a teaspoonful to half a glass of water. Hiccups Wet a leaf of tobacco and put it on your stomach. Take nine sups of water and your hiccuping will stop. Hold your breath and think of seven bald headed men. Hives Boil a bunch of catnip in water. Strain and drink. Itch Make ointment out of one teaspoon of sulfur and four teaspoons of lard and rub on the area. Kidney Trouble Get the dead sils off an ear of corn. Boil in water, strain and drink. Gather a large amount of peach tree leaves; boil in water to make a tea and drink. Measles Drink diluted sheep manure to ensure that the measles will pop out. Sheep manue has a high temperaure quotient. (PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS ONE) Nose Bleed Pull the hair on top of your head straight up until bleeding stops. Poison Ivy Take a bath in salt water, and then grease in Vaseline. The salt will kill out every bit of the poison and the Vaseline will keep it from itching and you won't scratch it. Boil milkweed leaves in water. Rub this water on the poisoned skin. Rub some leaves from a touch-me-not plant on the place where you have the poison ivy. It will cure it. Teething Babies Take a mole's foot (his left front paw) and tie that around the baby's neck and you won't hear a sound out of it. Take a dime with a hole in it and hang by a chain around the baby's neck. Warts Sell the wart for a penny. Then throw the penny away. Put some cow manure on them. Worms Drop turpentine on a teaspoonful of sugar. Mix together and give according to age. If they are one year, give them one drop and add a drop for every year till he gets on up pretty good size. Give that for three mornings. Also rub turpentine on the child's naval. That is where the worms come up to and they will hang there. They will bite down on the child and that makes the child grumble with a stomachache. That turpentine will make them turn loose and the child will pass them. This remedy is used mostly for pinworms. Eat gourd seeds. Honey and Vinegar Remedies Many claims have been made for the daily consumption of a honey and vinegar tonic. The basic, time honored dose is two teaspoons of honey and two teaspoons of vinegard, striied into a full glass of tepid water. When served with each meal, it seems to protect from the most distressing features of aging. Those who take this combination on a regular basis seem to feel young and vigorous well into their suppoable "twilight years". Honey and vinegar are considered by many to be an almost magical combination for the treatment of sleeplessness. Stir a little vinegar into a cup of honey. Administer by the spoonful at bedtime, and again wherever needed in the night. It is a natural, time tested remedy for a vexing problem. Old timers felt honey was nature's way to easy weight loss. Mix two teaspoons of honey into a glass of water and drink it 1/2 hour before each meal. You will melt away excess pounds. Two teaspoons of honey with eachmeal will banish migraine headaches. If you feel one coming on, a quick teaspoon can help. Or, boil equal parts of vinegar and honey and inhale the steam. To control the appetite, begin each meal with a nice bowl of freshly picked lettuce, dresses with two tablespoons of vinegar. One teaspoon of vinegar in a glass of water, four times a day helps the pain of arthritis. Two teaspoons vinegar in a glass of water, three times a day, relieves kidney infections. Chewing on the wax of a honeycomb is said to relieve breathing tract problems by acting as a desensitizing agent. Gargle with one-teaspoon vinegar in a glass of wather to ease a sore throat. Use vinegar and honey to stop a nagging cough. Mix together 1/2 cup of honey and a tablespoon of vinegar and take as needed. Cure twitches and reoccurring muscle cramps in one week by taking two teaspoons of honey with meals. Sinus drainage can be greatly reduced by drinking one-teaspoon vinegar, mixed into a glass of water. One-teaspoon honey at bedtime cures bed-wetting. Dizziness can be relieved by drinking a glass of water with a splash of vinegar added to it. Sooth the miseries of a hangover by taking a teaspoon of honey every hour. Submitted by: Dana Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001067 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/