Arthritis
~ drink a mixture of honey, vinegar and moonshine.
~a magnet will draw it out
Asthma
~ sniff rabbit tobacco
~suck salty water up your nose
~swallow a handful of spider webs
~smoke strong smoke until you choke
Athletes foot
~Wrap a wool string around a toe
~Step in fresh cow dung
Bee sting
~Put on castor oil~Moist snuff, tobacco, mud or red clay
Bleeding
~use soot and lard
~place spider web across the wound
~apply lamp black to wound
~kerosene oil or pine risin
Broken arm
~Mix red clay and water. Put splints on each side of arm. Fill, let set and then put arm in sling
Burns
~bind castor oil and egg whites on burn
~scraping of a raw potato
~lard and flour or axle grease
Chest Congestion
~poultice of kerosene, turpentine and pure lard
~raw honey
~Mutton tallow
~Rock candy and whiskey
~Mixture of camphor, mutton tallow, soot, pine tar, turpentine and lard
~Ground oil and goose oil
~Wear a flannel shirt with turpentine and lard all winter
Chinch bugs
~Burn sulfur in closed house
Cold
~use quinine as much as you can put on a knife blade
~Drink Kraut juice
~Drink red pepper tea
~Eat onions roasted in ashes
Colic
~tie a asafetida bag around babies neck for 6 months
~Drink Sampsons snake root tea
~Chew camel root or ginseng root
~Drink some asafetida and whiskey in water or milk
Diaper Rash
~Crisco - Yeah, Right! It works!
Diarrhea
~take a tea of red oak bark or blackberry juice
~Any flavor of warm jell-o
Dysentery
~Put whiskey (or high proof liquor) in a cup, set it a fire after the fire goes out. Drink what's left
~Drink blackberry juice
Ear Aches
~"salt bag" - a small cotton bag filled with salt, then heated in the oven til warm, place against the aching ear.
~hold head close to a hot lamp, caster oil or sweet oil.
Eye Ailments
~Few drops of castor oil
Foot Cramps
~turn shoe upside down before going to bed
Flu
~Chew rabbit tobacco
~Give a fretful child tea from catnip
Gall Bladder trouble
~Take a teaspoon of corn whiskey and black drought
Headache
~tie a flour sack around your head
~bind wilted beet leaves on forehead
~bury your cut hair under a rock
~Smear brow with crushed onions
~Rub camphor and white whiskey on head
Use kerosene for head lice
Eat garlic every day for a healthier heart
Hiccups
~take a teaspoon of peanut butter
Itch
~use sulfur, lard or sulfur and gun powder
Measles
~Tea of sheep dung to break them out
~Whiskey
Migraine headache
~Two teaspoons of honey with meal
Nail Puncture
~Use hammer, pull out nail, grease the nail and put away to prevent lock jaw.
~Kerosene and pine oil
~Pour alcohol on nail and place on porch rafter
~Lard and chimney soot plus turpentine. Pack around wound
Nose Bleeds
~Place scissors points up on your neck
~Hang a pair of pot hooks around your neck
~Lie down and put a dime on your heart
~Wear a piece of lead on string around neck. You'll never have a nosebleed
Poison Ivy
~Mix vinegar with equal amounts of water. Dab frequently on affected area.
Rheumatism
~Drink juice of pokeberry wine and whiskey
~Rub wildcat oil on joints
~Eat garlic
~Carry a buckeye or Irish potato until it gets hard
Risens
~Eat sulfur and honey
~Put scrapings of an Irish potato on it
~Put the skin of an eggshell on it
~Draw out with a piece of raw fat meat
Rusty Nails
~Steep a tea bag in hot water, let it cool till just warm and place it over the painful puncture wound.
Shingles
~Pat vinegar on full strength to ease the pain
Sinus drainage
~can be reduced by drinkin' one teaspoon vinegar in a glass of water. Also good for a sore throat.
Sore throat
~Wear a dirty sock (stinky) around your neck
~Gargle with 2 cup water, 1 Tbls. Vinegar and 2 tsp. Salt
~Rub pine oil on throat
~Poultice of kerosene, turpentine and pine lard
Sores
~Let a dog lick butter off of it
~Put lard on first then dust with sulfur
~Salve of white pine resin and mutton tallow
A Sty can be removed by running the tip of a black cats tail across it.
Tonsil trouble~
Burn out with iodine and turpentine several time a day for months
Warts
~Tie a horsehair around it
~Use a piece of bacon or salt pork
~Rub with a rock, put rock in a box. Whoever opens the box will get them
~Steal a neighbors dishrag, Wipe it across the wart and bury rag in the woods
Yellow Jaundice
~Scrape a cows horn, boil the scraping and drink
~ drink a mixture of honey, vinegar and moonshine.
~a magnet will draw it out
Asthma
~ sniff rabbit tobacco
~suck salty water up your nose
~swallow a handful of spider webs
~smoke strong smoke until you choke
Athletes foot
~Wrap a wool string around a toe
~Step in fresh cow dung
Bee sting
~Put on castor oil~Moist snuff, tobacco, mud or red clay
Bleeding
~use soot and lard
~place spider web across the wound
~apply lamp black to wound
~kerosene oil or pine risin
Broken arm
~Mix red clay and water. Put splints on each side of arm. Fill, let set and then put arm in sling
Burns
~bind castor oil and egg whites on burn
~scraping of a raw potato
~lard and flour or axle grease
Chest Congestion
~poultice of kerosene, turpentine and pure lard
~raw honey
~Mutton tallow
~Rock candy and whiskey
~Mixture of camphor, mutton tallow, soot, pine tar, turpentine and lard
~Ground oil and goose oil
~Wear a flannel shirt with turpentine and lard all winter
Chinch bugs
~Burn sulfur in closed house
Cold
~use quinine as much as you can put on a knife blade
~Drink Kraut juice
~Drink red pepper tea
~Eat onions roasted in ashes
Colic
~tie a asafetida bag around babies neck for 6 months
~Drink Sampsons snake root tea
~Chew camel root or ginseng root
~Drink some asafetida and whiskey in water or milk
Diaper Rash
~Crisco - Yeah, Right! It works!
Diarrhea
~take a tea of red oak bark or blackberry juice
~Any flavor of warm jell-o
Dysentery
~Put whiskey (or high proof liquor) in a cup, set it a fire after the fire goes out. Drink what's left
~Drink blackberry juice
Ear Aches
~"salt bag" - a small cotton bag filled with salt, then heated in the oven til warm, place against the aching ear.
~hold head close to a hot lamp, caster oil or sweet oil.
Eye Ailments
~Few drops of castor oil
Foot Cramps
~turn shoe upside down before going to bed
Flu
~Chew rabbit tobacco
~Give a fretful child tea from catnip
Gall Bladder trouble
~Take a teaspoon of corn whiskey and black drought
Headache
~tie a flour sack around your head
~bind wilted beet leaves on forehead
~bury your cut hair under a rock
~Smear brow with crushed onions
~Rub camphor and white whiskey on head
Use kerosene for head lice
Eat garlic every day for a healthier heart
Hiccups
~take a teaspoon of peanut butter
Itch
~use sulfur, lard or sulfur and gun powder
Measles
~Tea of sheep dung to break them out
~Whiskey
Migraine headache
~Two teaspoons of honey with meal
Nail Puncture
~Use hammer, pull out nail, grease the nail and put away to prevent lock jaw.
~Kerosene and pine oil
~Pour alcohol on nail and place on porch rafter
~Lard and chimney soot plus turpentine. Pack around wound
Nose Bleeds
~Place scissors points up on your neck
~Hang a pair of pot hooks around your neck
~Lie down and put a dime on your heart
~Wear a piece of lead on string around neck. You'll never have a nosebleed
Poison Ivy
~Mix vinegar with equal amounts of water. Dab frequently on affected area.
Rheumatism
~Drink juice of pokeberry wine and whiskey
~Rub wildcat oil on joints
~Eat garlic
~Carry a buckeye or Irish potato until it gets hard
Risens
~Eat sulfur and honey
~Put scrapings of an Irish potato on it
~Put the skin of an eggshell on it
~Draw out with a piece of raw fat meat
Rusty Nails
~Steep a tea bag in hot water, let it cool till just warm and place it over the painful puncture wound.
Shingles
~Pat vinegar on full strength to ease the pain
Sinus drainage
~can be reduced by drinkin' one teaspoon vinegar in a glass of water. Also good for a sore throat.
Sore throat
~Wear a dirty sock (stinky) around your neck
~Gargle with 2 cup water, 1 Tbls. Vinegar and 2 tsp. Salt
~Rub pine oil on throat
~Poultice of kerosene, turpentine and pine lard
Sores
~Let a dog lick butter off of it
~Put lard on first then dust with sulfur
~Salve of white pine resin and mutton tallow
A Sty can be removed by running the tip of a black cats tail across it.
Tonsil trouble~
Burn out with iodine and turpentine several time a day for months
Warts
~Tie a horsehair around it
~Use a piece of bacon or salt pork
~Rub with a rock, put rock in a box. Whoever opens the box will get them
~Steal a neighbors dishrag, Wipe it across the wart and bury rag in the woods
Yellow Jaundice
~Scrape a cows horn, boil the scraping and drink
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