Home remedies your mum, grandma believed

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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

@DidgeDoolittle I had really bad period pains on a night out and my mum sent me a text to down a double brandy. It worked!

My go tos are udder cream for any type of skin problem,from excema to cuts and splinters. TCP for sore throats,thorns stuck in fingers ect.
My child know that if they come to me with any injury,it's either udder cream or TCP.

My granny made me put dandelion milk (the white fluid that seeks out when you break the head off the dandelion) on my warts as a child.

They all cleared up but maybe they would have anyway.

My lovely Polish Babcia
When you had a cold hot milk, butter, honey and black pepper.
I can still taste it 🤢

Butter and sugar with brandy mixed together in a paste and eaten when had a bad cold.
It was delicious and I remember having this from being a small primary aged child (and probably earlier).
If anyone had vomiting bug a bottle of lemonade would be bought and the top left off for it to go flat (not that it had time to go flat) then it would be sipped by the poorly person.

Thought of some more:

Vinegar on a wasp sting
Bread soda on a bee sting
Oatmeal in bath for itchy rash
Cornflour for nappy rash
Hot bath for sunburn

I must be very suggestible because these all worked on me!

My granny always put butter on us if we got a bump on the head.

Milk of magnesia for any stomach related issue. Or nausea. I think that made me more nauseous.

A spoon of cod liver oil every day to keep your bones moving.,..

Malt. No clue what that was for.

Kaolin poultice if you ever had a scraped knee, etc., which was dirty or likely to get infected

“Hot Oxo” (oxo cube in a cup of boiling water) for colds, flu or generally being under the weather

Styes were rubbed with a gold ring

yeoldetrout lysine absolutely works for cold sores.
I take the tablets when I feel one coming on and I did swear by the cream until Holland & Barrat changed the formula and have since discovered vicks is AMAZING at getting rid of them in 24-48 hours.

It's only taken 39 years

@Cantstopthewaves I remember my granny used to give us butter balls rolled in sugar for colds. The thought of it now makes me , and I’ve never understood why they were even supposed to work…but I’m wondering now if there was brandy in there too

I was on holiday in Greece recently and had a bad fall two black eyes and a bruised forehead. Lovely lovely cleaner came in while I was in bed, with a cut up aloe Vera stem, and proceeded to rub it on all the bruised parts of my face (many and various). I'm familiar with aloe vera, so was quite happy for her to do this.

I'm not sure if it helped, but it was soothing.

I'm not sure if the soothing affect was the aloe vera, or if it was the lovely Albanian women administering it. Whatever

@iklboo My Nan used to call that your salt cellar.
All ailments in our house were treated with either paracetamol, vicks vaporub, or germolene (from a tin)

My Grandma used to dose us up with chopped onion boiled in vinegar for colds- vile!

Oats in an old sock to run babies bathwater through for eczema, works!
Comfrey leaves boiled up then wrapped onto sprains, works!
Lemonade warmed for a cold, can understand real lemon helping but cheap lemonade that never saw a lemon..... Dubious!
Lucozade, always made me feel better but probably the glucose and caffeine perking you up. I still crave it if I'm ill (or have a hangover😳) ......... However they have ruined it since the sugar tax putting artificial sweetener in it, not as effective anymore. Also missing the orange cellophane that i used to enjoy peering through as a child........ Well it was very boring in bed in those days, no tvs, electronic devices in bedrooms, just old annuals/books that were already well read!

Butter sugar and vinegar for a chesty cough and cold. The ingredients were placed on a saucer and melted over a low flame and the mixture spoon fed to us. I believe the butter was for the throat and the vinegar fumes were to cut the congestion. The sugar was to make it taste better.

My mum insists on putting butter on a burn which was something I believed right up until moving in with dh and burnt myself with my hair straighteners.I can still remember his face when he found me trying to slather margarine on my hand 😅 'what the fuck are you doing? put it under cold water!!!'

Andrews liver salts
Gentian violets
A bread poultice for splinters
Vicks cloraseptic
Vicks vapour rub
Germoline
Stealing some raw bacon or beef for charming a wart don't ask .
Salt water gargle
Lucozade for everything else.

@Thelegohooverer.
Same here it works I tells ya 👍

I still swear by comfrey. It used to be called knitbone and my wee Nanny showed my DM, Aunt and I how to make a poultice or a salve or an ointment.
Hot brown lemonade for a cough.
Hot honey and lemon juice for a cold.
Oat baths for rashes/chicken pox.
White willow bark for a temperature.
Witch hazel for skin injury or grazes.
A tomato cut in half from the fridge and rubbed on sunburn.
Feverfew for headaches.

Carrageen Moss boiled in milk with whiskey(for adults) and sugar added to drink for a cough/chest infection was my Nana's go to.
She was a lifelong pioneer so her measures of alcohol were always generous as she had no concept of just how small a measure of strong alcohol should be!

My Gran swore by cod liver oil for your joints.

Gran has been gone 14 years. But my dd2 who is 17 (and has Gran's middle name!) has bad arthritis in her hip due to a condition called Perthes Disease, when the hip joint dies and (hopefully) regenerates, but dd2s regenerated in a wrong shape. So she has severe osteoarthritis in her hip. And in desperation I tried cod liver oil capsules. Total game changer. She's not taking half as many hardline painkillers. We're utterly delighted. As is dd!!

Butter and sugar mixed together to a paste for sore throats!!

Your morning spit on your eye to get rid of a stye.

My Polish mum always had a jar of (many) chopped up cloves of garlic mixed with honey and lemon juice then left to 'ferment.'
It was the vilest substance known to man.

It was always brought out for coughs and colds.
I remember having whooping cough. My mum brought this shit out as soon as . Cleared it up a treat.

Andrews Liver Salts are wonderful.