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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:34 PM
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Disturbing folk/home remedies? For warts my maternal grandmother would apply a wet baby diaper to
our affected area. Nasty!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:43 PM
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1. Anything with kerosene in it
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:54 PM
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2. I picked up a hitchhiker once who gave me a long lecture about the marvelous
curative properties of skunkfat boiled in kerosene

He looked like he'd swallowed a lot of it during his life, too
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 05:46 PM
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3. Skunk fat! Now yer talk'n.
:rofl:
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BrendaBrick Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 05:55 PM
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4. A copper penny!
It actually worked! I had a wart on one of fingers as a child and my grandmother told me to rub a penny on it once in the morning and again at night...and doncha know - after about a week so (if memory serves) it actually went away and never came back!!!!


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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 05:57 PM
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5. That is so much better than baby pee.
:hi:
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BrendaBrick Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 06:35 PM
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6. My mom told me...
Edited on Mon Aug-01-11 06:37 PM by BrendaBrick
(don't laugh...this is true)...that she used to actually wipe a (cloth diaper back then) with baby urine and told me it was good for the complexion!

Though, beyond the gross factor...I have read somewhere that human urine is actually sterile and if you are ever bit by a snake in the woods or something...well - you can figure out the rest!

Also, there is some kind of weird therapy for building up your immune system naturally by diluting a few drops of your own urine in, I dunno, tea or something?

Speaking of weird stuff....I think that there is a woman somewhere who has been using multiple bee stings successfully for many years now to alleviate her symptoms of MS (I think it is.)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 11:08 AM
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16. I think it's the ammonia that is what keeps the complexion clear?
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 06:56 PM
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7. check out DUs health forum
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 09:41 PM
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8. Wrapping a sock filled with boiled onions around your thrroat to fight a
cold.


Hot milk, with butter and honey for a sore throat. Absolutely wretched stuff. Skunk fat couldn't be half as horrible.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:12 PM
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9. I've heard for years that urine helped eliminate warts.
But I don't know why that would help.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:17 PM
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10. No, for warts you should rub them with a cut potato
When the potato rots, the warts will be gone. That was the old wives' tale when Mom was a kid.

For the wart I got on my palm, though, she took me to the doctor who burned it off with acid. Hurt like hell.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:30 PM
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12. Okay, I'll take baby pee over acid.
:rofl:
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:38 PM
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25. Maybe - but the acid took the wart off and I've never had another one
Does baby pee work that good?

The only other experience I've had with warts is when one of my horses got them from a show grounds - warts seemed to be going around that year among a lot of the show barns. Our vet advised pulling off the warts. He said that the stress of having the warts pulled off might trigger the horse's immune system to fight the virus.

I tried that once - not only was the act of pulling off the warts worse than pulling ticks off, it pissed off the horse, probably because it hurt. And the spots bled. It was just gross. Eventually the warts went away and we've never had warts on the horses since.
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digonswine Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:18 PM
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11. Speaking of warts-
my mother says my dad has been using Vicks(tm) Vapo-rub on them. She says it has been working "for years"---some cure!
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:06 AM
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13. Nail polish and duct tape actually works...
for warts...
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:32 AM
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14. Apple cider vinegar for warts.
Used it on my kid. Put some on a cotton ball, bandage to wart. Repeat daily. The wart quickly turns black and creates a crater.

Kid had them all over his side and lower arm, started with a couple and bloomed into a full wart invasion. Pediatrician kept assuring me that his immune response would kick in. For years. Preteens + warts = bad news.

Took two weeks with the apple cider trick on two warts. Seemed to trigger the immune response, because thre warts all went away without further treatment. Maybe it was a coincidence. Snort.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 10:54 AM
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15. Whiskey. For everything.
My aunt was born premature during the Depression. She weighed about 3 pounds. They kept her in the oven and fed her sips of whiskey! True story.

We were given hot tea with a shot of whiskey and lemon for colds, headaches, croup, and just about everything else. (Great for cramps, too!) It didn't cure us, but it would knock us out and we would sleep off the illness! LOL

My dad's remedy for diarrhea was a shot of olive oil with lemon. He swore by it.

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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:30 PM
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21. + 1. Experience talkin'
I fell off a chair I was standing on, twisting it on the way down. I tore my ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament), and the pain was beyond any prior experience.

I was at work and begged my boss for whiskey. He asked why I wanted to get drunk. Between clenched teeth I educated him that I needed to numb the pain in order to move. I took two one-ounce shots and it worked. I was able to move and get on my feet to seek medical attention as the boss wasn't interested in helping.

The whiskey didn't make me inebriated; it made the situation manageable.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:30 PM
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22. Dupe/Delete/Sorry
Edited on Tue Aug-02-11 12:30 PM by no_hypocrisy
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:08 PM
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24. My grandmother often made mustard plaster for my chest colds. Seemed to really work.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 11:11 AM
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17. My Nana told me to freeze a metal baby spoon and dip it in brandy it for my teething munchkins. She
also told me to rub brandy directly on the gums.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 11:28 AM
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18. Don't Germans drink their own pee when they lose their voices?
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:37 PM
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23. No wonder they lost two wars.
:puke:
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:12 PM
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19. Another one for baby pee... my grandmother used to say
put a couple drops in your ear for an ear ache.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 12:28 PM
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20. I heard that too.
:hi:
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Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:50 PM
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26. My grandmother thought Vicks VapoRub was the cure for *everything*. n/t
Edited on Tue Aug-02-11 03:50 PM by Akoto
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