Earwax Cures Cold Sores?

Eating a whole raw onion will cure a cold.

Honey and whiskey at bedtime for a cough.

Stare at a ceiling light to stop hiccups.

Not that I've tried any of them........

my mom made cough medicine from whiskey (maybe brandy?), honey... and a few other ingredients such as lemon... as a kid, I couldn't stand it.... I often wondered how my dad could drink it. ;-)

I don't know about curing a cold, but eating a raw onion every day will protect you from communicable diseases that are caught from close proximity to other people.

Along those same lines, there is the all garlic diet. You don't actually lose any weight; but, you do look smaller from a distance!

Honey and whiskey at bedtime for a cough.
I have been doing this every night for over 30 years and I never cough at bedtime.

I did discover that honey dulled the medicinal effect of the whiskey, so now I just drink the whiskey and pass out go to sleep.

This isn't a folk remedy in the sense that you mean it, but (1) it's definitely Appalachian and (2) it's not explainable, although I'm sure some CR4 folks will come up with some explanations.

When I was a toddler, growing up in upstate South Carolina, I walked from my bedroom to my parents' bedroom in my bare feet -- right over the heat register. I burned both feet and, being really smart, put one hand down on the register, I guess to make sure it was hot as the hinges of Hades, and burned that hand as well. My parents took me to the pediatrician's office. I was, as you might suspect, screaming my lungs out. When they got to the office, an older woman who was waiting for a patient told my parents that she could talk the fire out of my extremities. I'm told that as soon as she took me on her lap and started talking I shut up and never cried again from the 2nd degree burns. My father, who also grew up in upstate SC, had a similar experience once when he cut the crap out of a hand or foot and a neighbor lady stopped the bleeding by talking. I heard stories like this off and on when I was growing up along with all manner of folk medicine a la Foxfire.

Stop the bleeding, stop the pain, by talking? Hmmmnmn... not sure how LynDoor FolkMed can monetize that one.

I believe there is a folk remedy that calls for spiderweb on a wound to stop bleeding.

Stop the bleeding, stop the pain, by talking? Hmmmnmn... not sure how LynDoor FolkMed can monetize that one.

pay up front?

The pain is subsiding....

I can see how distracting a person in pain might lessen the pain, although if the pain is serious, I would suspect it would be difficult to hold their attention.

As for stopping bleeding, I am a bit skeptical.

There are some very weird effects of hypnosis, which may account for a lot of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

Bleeding usually stops on it's own, what with platelets and all....and certainly relaxing the heart rate would help lower the blood pressure....

4 grams of vitamin C every 4 hours will cure a cold.....This actually works

Breaking a sweat everyday is good for your health....

Never go to hospitals or take medications except as a last resort....

Take a dump and a shower everyday, even if you don't think you need to.....

Never take medical advice from someone other than a doctor....

Becoming an engineer is an effective form of contraception.

Anonymous Posters are poster child for the use of prophylactics

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Get rid of a wart by sticking a small piece of duct tape on it.

For warts, use the milky sap of the milkweed to put on warts.

Sleeping with onion slices in your socks so that the onions contact the arches is said to cure colds and fix, "what ails you".

I've never tried this myself.

A remedy of my own making is, when I want my knees to stop aching,.... I just think how much more my hips are killing me... Seems to work too.

The sap from Jewel Weed aka touch me nots, cures poison ivy.

Tobacco and Sage are effective antibacterials for wounds.

Sassafras Tea is a good blood thinner for hot days.

Wild Strawberries are good for your heart.

Staghorn Sumac Tea is also good for your heart and lowers cholesterol levels.

A colleague from Southern Ireland, (Eire) told us a story of a local man who could cure cataracts by using his tongue to lick off the cataract.

He also said that his grandfather used to file down horses teeth to make them appear younger!

Wonderful place Ireland.

Tom, about the horses teeth, that may be a misunderstanding, it depends where he ground the teeth.

My dad was good telling the age of the horse by looking at its teeth. He also raised registered Arabians, we were very involved in the 4H horse project, were he supplied horse to the 4h members that didn't have horses. He also bought an sold horses.

There is a groove on the horses teeth called the "Galvayne's Groove."

It's A groove said to appear at the gum margin of the upper corner incisor at about 10 years of age extends halfway down the tooth at 15 years and reaches the table margin at 20 years. It then is said to recede and disappear at 30 years. This getting a good estimate of the age of horse.

At horse auctions in 1960's -70's by determining age of horses by their teeth he was very accurate, he caught horse dealers trying to cheat kids. Some 4H members would ask him to come along when they were going to buy a horse of their own. Which they were very grateful when he did. Especially when dad would say, if you don't buy this horse, he would. That boosted their confidence in the purchase.

If you have head congestion, hold a large mouthful of fresh milk in your mouth,back up to a brick wall,and beat your head against it 'til it clabbers.

Clears the sinuses right up!

Side effects are no worse than some modern remedies.

Cobwebs really do help stop bleeding.

I was totally sceptical when a friend told me he could make my hand warts disappear.

I let him try,but silently laughed to myself.

A few days later,the warts were gone.

I don't know when it happened,I just forgot about them after he did his thing,and these had been on my hand for years.

I had tried every known medical remedy,including having them frozen many times by a dermatologist.

They always came back.

After this,they have not returned,and it has been over 30 years. Go figure!

There is more dark matter and energy in the universe than the normal kind,so who really knows?

Best I can remember,only 10% or so is detectable by normal means.

WE are really the ghosts in the machine.

A scientifically proven remedy:ExLax will cure a cough!

What exactly did your friend do to make the warts go away?

I don't know what he did exactly,but he had me write down my full name and date of birth on a postage stamp size piece of paper.

He then folded it up several times and put it in his watch pocket.

I don't know what he did with it after that,and he would not tell me when I asked him later.

He said he couldn't tell me.

Weird stuff!

So, he stole your identity?

This occurred in the '60's years before the 'net,and he already knew most of the info anyway,being a small town.

Everybody knew everyone else's relatives for at least 4 generations back.

When a stranger entered town he was asked for I.D. by asking "Whose boy are you?"

The writing it down was just a part of the ritual, or whatever he did,I guess.

A CR4 Folk remedy?

How about this: As a cure for Dumb-First-Post-itis, apply Saracsm in liberal doses until the OP recedes and vanishes?

Also works for Anonymous-Original-Poster-itis.

A few more that don't sound (to me, anyway) viable:

"To cure cramps in the feet, turn your shoes upside down before going to bed."

"To cure a fever, tie a bag containing the sufferers nail clippings to the tail of an eel and set it free. The eel will carry the fever away."

Doorman's Chick and I were talking about this, and she makes a very valid observation: Some of these folk remedies may have actually worked because the people believed that they would work. Power of the mind, and all that.

If you have hiccups, drink a glass of water after you bend over. In other words, your head is upside down, but the glass is right side up. For some reason this always works.

My mom was told this one in Jamaica after she was stung by a jellyfish. Pee on it to take the sting out. It worked.

Garlic helps cure a cold or sinus problems. It works, but you may smell:)

Press on the skin between your thumb and index finger to get rid of a headache. Helps.

Pee, is actually sterile.... Not just any pee, it has to be fresh pee that is.

I myself used rum when I got stung by a jelly fish. Taken both externally and internally.

I've heard about that headache relief, but never tried it.

About 10 years ago, I had 3 days of prepaid lift tickets for Killington and came down with the flu at the last minute. I took 2 Gms of Ester C, zinc, echinacea, golden seal aand a multivitamin. 15 minutes later, the fever was gone, my sinuses were clear and also my lungs. Repeated about every 5-6 hours and I skiied for the next three days. By the time I got home, my flu was gone.

I worked in the international terminal at Newark Airport for several years. Now I don't catch anything. I think that exposure immunized me to everything.

Home remedies: Raspberry cordial for upset stomach (this from Mom)

Tobacco poultice (moist) applied to stings and bites reduces swelling and pain.

Jewel weed works on poison ivy, but needs to be picked and used right away.

Hiccups; take a deep breath, hold it while holding your arms straight up. Works by stretching the diaphragm. (2) Take a teaspoon of sugar and dissolve it in your mouth, not sure why it works.

The membrane from a fresh egg applied to a cut will help prevent scarring. (This from a nurse.)

Adolph's meat tenderizer for stings, the enzymes make it work.

From a bone specialist I consulted: Take 2 capsules of wheat germ oil, break them in your mouth and let it mix with the enzymes in your saliva. This translates into a lubricant in your joints. (Works) Note:If the oil has a bitter taste, it's gone rancid, don't use it.

My personal favorite for treating a winter or summer cold is what my uncle called the "Two Hats Remedy."

Get a bottle of your favorite spirits;Scotch,Bourbon,Vodka...doesn't matter...and take a hot shower,sit on the edge of the bed,hang your hat on the foot board corner post.

Drink until you see two hats hanging there.

Then lie down and go to sleep.

In the morning,you will forget about your cold.

Works for me.

Sometimes I do it even when I don't have a cold...just for prevention.

When I was in the Air force, I had a couple of warts. I had the hospital freeze them off but some remained. A staff sergeant from Mississippi heard this and told me and another airman that he was a wart rubber. He said his mother and grandmother were also wart rubbers and that if he rubbed our warts they would disappear within about a week. Skeptically we let him rub our warts. Within a week or two they were completely gone and I have not had warts in this area again in over 30 years now. I am a believer.

a wart is a skin virus,... In grade school, one of my friends, his hand was just covered in warts... he went through a number of procedures (freezing, burning, chemically) to remove them, by the time he got to junior high, he finally had the warts replaced with scars where they used to be.