Apply directly to the forehead!
Apply directly to the forehead!
Apply directly to the forehead!
A tablespoon of honey, a tablespoon of lemon juice and a tablespoon of whisky. Mix and swallow. This works as good as any OTC cough medicine you will buy
The guy who invented Vasoline, Robert Chesebrough claimed swallowing a spoonful of it each day led to his long life. He died at 96
This isn’t really a remedy, but…
If you tan with the sun, use a mixture of oil and apple-cider vinegar, and you will bronze beautifully and never burn again. (Though I recommend 10 minutes at first, then 15, and keep at 15 for a few days; after that, go however long you want) My mom’s 100% Irish, and while she was working at a ski resort in Vermont, this secret was given to her by a ski instructor, as it was apparant my mom couldn’t handle the slightest amount of sun without burning.
I can say that it works! You smell like a salad, though, so plan on a shower afterwards. Also has no effect with a tanning bed, just the regular sun.
I can guaran-damn-tee you that if I were to go out in the sun with oil and vinegar on, I will still burn, crispy red lobster-style. I don’t care to find out for free, though- wanna make a bet? 
No, no bets, cause if you’re out for a long time anyone will burn Last summer I had tons of SPF a jillion on and still burned, but…it was 8 hours of sun and I didn’t reapply.
I should have tried the salad dressing instead 
It’s been done. Not as good a results as I had heard previously.
Some older folks in my village tell me that when they were ill, they would have salt fish bound to the soles of their feet with rags.
For colds, I had mustard plasters on my chest as a kid.
Nevermind
I got some pine tar in my hair walking through the woods and it comes right out with rubbing alcohol. It also gets it off your hands and is much less smelly then gasoline.
Rubbing alcohol also takes the itch out of mosquito bites.
I never had the mustard plasters but my Mom would use Vicks Vapor Rub on my chest and put a tee shirt on me when I had a chest cold. She would also put a little under my nose. I don’t think it does anything for the cold but it makes you feel better.
For seasickness: attach a clothespin to the lobe of your ear-it works.
Vicks Vapor Rub is the shit, Perciful.
I was told to rub it on my daughter’s feet when she was sick, as a way to ward off coughs. It seemed like she coughed less but it could be because I also rubbed it on her chest and back.
I was also told it works great on athlete’s foot or toenail fungus but I have no idea.
overlyverbose - Your grandfather wasn’t as odd as you think. Listerine used to advertisethat it was good for dandruff.
I think my home remedy wins by being most disgusting. It’s an old southern remedy my father likes to talk about. If you have an ear infection take some urine - From another person! It cannot be your own! - and put it in your ear. He actually convinced someone to try this a few years ago, and they said it worked.
-For chapped lips, apply some chicken dung to your mouth. It’ll stop you from licking your lips (though, of course, the downside is that you’ll have chicken shit on your mouth). This was reccomended to me by an elderly friend of my grandmother’s…I’ve never tried it.
-Buy a tight headband and use it to hold some checkers on your forehead when you have a headache. Works for me. Also, I notice that rubbing the area between your thumb and forefinger helps, too.
-Rub an onion on a mosquito bite to stop the itching.
I guess these aren’t really odd, save for the dung one.
Duct tape didn’t work on my wart, but putting some vinegar on a bandaid on the wart peeled the fucker off in a week.
My mom has taken to drinking vinegar and baking soda (“it’s like pop, I swear!”)
And brushing her teeth with olive oil
And drinking olive oil and cacao “energy shakes” (“ooohhh, don’t have one later than noon, you’ll never get to sleep that night!”)
And washing her hair with some weird shit; probably olive oil
I have no idea wtf any of this is supposed to do.
My mom always made me drink a special tea when I had a cold, its main ingedient was Catnip.
Its second ingredient was a shot of moonshine, with a spoon of honey so I went through most winters completely smashed.
Sounds like a Hot Toddy.
Dunno about the catnip.
So will ammonia, if you put it on right away. Something about interfering chemically with the anticoagulant stuff in mosquito saliva that causes the irritation, or so I’ve heard. Anyway, it seems to work.
Pick one or the other, though - I wouldn’t mix the two. But then, I never mix ammonia with anything, just to be safe, after the Great Ammonia Oops incident I had back in college. (I was using bleach to clean a bathroom floor and didn’t know a ferret had just peed there. Urine = ammonia source. Badness ensued.) So I dunno, maybe rubbing alcohol + ammonia is OK. What do I know?
Not to clean pee with bleach, and to put ammonia on mosquito bites, that’s what!
My Mom cured my brother’s bruxism by giving him a teaspoon of turpentine and sugar!