Home remedies your mum, grandma believed

[justasking111]

My mother every weekend gave us kids senokots to move our bowels. Well they'd worked all week so why did her three offspring have to suffer gripes and frequent dashes to the loo?

Andrews liver salts or Beecham's powders during the week

No batshit relatives here but dgm did have a glass jar with a decorative silver lid... Inside was Magic Cream. Worked on all bumps and grazes!! Suspect it was Nivea tbf!!
She was wonderful.

Flat 7Up works for any illness.

Whiskey to see off a cold that's just coming on

Always worth a try!!

(It was as much DDad's approach as DMum's)

When I was in agony with period pains school would phone up. Dad picked me up. Mum would give me brandy to ease the pain I was 13 and thought it was medicine

Drinking warmed up Lowcocks lemonade for an upset stomach. 🤮

Butter/Marge on eczema.....

Lucozade!
In the dimply bottles with orange crinkly wrapping!

Beechams powders
Fennings Little Healers
Indian Brandee
Vicks vaporub 'in your gravy hole' (the hollow where your collar bone joins in the front)

Bed made up on the couch.

Egg beat up in a cup or Heinz tomato soup with bread torn up & thrown in (pobs).

You knew you were poorly when the Lucozade was bought.

Ginger wine, feet up, hot water bottle and a blanket for period pain.
Lots of general mollycoddling for any illness.
Andrew's liver salts if you were feeling pukey. That was kill or cure really.

Egg white for nappy rash.

My DM had a small tin of stiff yellow gunge, a small blob of which would be put under a plaster to draw out splinters, or pus from cuts. It smelled vile, but it worked.

I've since found out it's called basilicon ointment, and I recommend it!

My dear gran would make me a 'special' hot drink when I got my (always very painful) period. A good slug of gin.....probably a triple, freshly squeezed lemon, a heaped teaspoon sugar and topped up with boiling water.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

@butterflyze - oh yes! We had magnesium sulphate paste (mag sulph) that does the same.

For when you're cold to the bone or got soaked through
Feet in a washing up bowl with mustard powder and hot water while you drink a brew

It works I did it a few years ago after being outside all day and was sweating!

Ginger to settle a queasy stomach or nausea: can be ginger beer, ginger ale, ginger chews, hard ginger candy, or even fresh ginger. It works.

Bicarbonate of soda powder mixed to a paste with water to slop on burns.

Dock leaves crushed & rubbed on nettle stings to cool them.

Bread and sugar poultice to draw out splinters.

Spoonfuls of malt throughout the winter.

Warm salty water to drink after vomiting!

Friars balsam in hot water to inhale for a chesty cough.

I knew I was at death's door when the Lucozade was brought out.
Rose hip syrup over vanilla ice cream was a Vitamin C filled treat.
It's a wonder I survived it all really!!

An English doctor told my mother in the 1960s that rubbing potatoes on warts would get rid of hand warts. That is the only weird "cure" thing my mother believed and practised.

She also read somewhere that taking lysine helped to prevent or reduce cold sores, I suppose. I'm not aware of any 'cures' my grandmothers believed.

@Thecurtainsofdestiny

Egg white for nappy rash.

It's miraculous, it really is!Beat the egg white till it foams and then apply!

Whisky in hot water with lemon for a cold. I still do it, though at no other time do I touch spirits!

My mum would put comfrey leaves in a jar and let them ferment. The smell would knock you senseless! If you had a muscle sprain she would then add hot water and use it as a poultice.
I've just googled this and found that comfrey is still used by herbalists for muscle and bone injuries.

@iklboo

Beechams powders Fennings Little Healers Indian Brandee Vicks vaporub 'in your gravy hole' (the hollow where your collar bone joins in the front)

Bed made up on the couch.

Egg beat up in a cup or Heinz tomato soup with bread torn up & thrown in (pobs).

You knew you were poorly when the Lucozade was bought.

My mum gave me Indian brandy for period pains. Does anyone know what's in it, I've always wondered.

Another for flat 7up, my DC believe it makes them better.
Butter on your chest for chest infection, Butter on the nose for a blocked nose.
Gargle tcp for sore throat.

Cold cabbage leafs after giving birth, awh what wonderful feeling of relief.

@GrimDamnFanjo

Lucozade! In the dimply bottles with orange crinkly wrapping!

Always cured me ! Then when I was better I stuck the wrapper on my bedroom window .

My Irish grandmother was a great believer in the healing powers of a ‘hot toddy’ for a cold. This consisted of a glass of hot water with plenty of sugar & a tot of Irish whiskey. In practice, however, it was more like a glass of whiskey, a pinch sugar and a tot of hot water. Bless her!