Reading the post about everyone being sick got me to thinking about the remedies my mom and grandmother used on us when we were kids. Seems like my brother and I always came down with the flu or bad colds during the winter and when we did out came the home remedies. I know we had Vicks Vapor Rub in the largest sizes available because my mom would put that stuff on our chest like she was greasing a trailer axel and then wrap our chests in a warm towel. My grandmother, she made a concoction using lemons, honey and sugar for sore throats and molasses and some other stuff, I do not remember, for coughs. Stragely enough all of it seemed to help a little bit.

When I had ear aches as a child, my grandma would blow smoke from her unfiltered pallmalls into my ear. Haha.

Butt whippings from both lol

With a bit of Vick’ Salve thrown in for good measure.

Honey and lemon is a good one.
Real chicken soup, heavy on the soup and light on the chicken was another one.

Monkey blood put on every scratch you got. Real name was mercurochrome.

Vicks put under your nose at bedtime.

campho phenique on chiggers/ticks

the monkey blood flowed freely from the large economy size

vicks again, slathered on then greasy pajamas till wash day.

crushed aspirin in some honey/lemon for sore throats, it worked.

head over a boiling pot of water with something in it to inhale, big beach towel over the head for a tent, amazing we didn't get scalded.

My grandma always had ginger ale around and when you had an upset tummy she made you drink some. It worked most of the time.

The cure was worse than the scratch.

It was either this or Grandpa would do the same thing with a cigar.

Vicks vapo rub on feet with socks over it at night to clear head colds. I still do it and it works.

Hot totties for fever . We had them as kids even.

Yep, plus warm tea with honey.

You and I must have been raised in the same family. This was my childhood to a T. Throw a little monkey blood on everything else that ailed you and life was grand.

Pepto bismal
Mecurachrome
Methialate
Vicks by the drum full

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