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Tell me about your family's home remedies, f!s. They are many and varied, and a lot of people swear they work for them, so I'm curious about what your family does for common afflictions (e.g. colds, bee stings, cuts, flu).

My mom swears by taking vitamin C for colds, and over the years I have found that it does decrease the severity of my symptoms and their duration if I take it as soon as I feel that sore throat coming on. I don't care if it's a placebo, it makes me feel slightly better than if I don't take any.

What are your tricks?

One of my grandma's friends once shared a home remedy against warts.

it goes as follows:

-take a lemon peel
-put in vinegar for 24 hours
- still vinegared lemon peel on the wart with bandaid, leave it there for 1-3 days, change peel if needed.

It works (but it might also just give your non-warty skin a chemical burn, so only put it on affected area.

Have you personally tried it?

Not doubting that it works, I'm just wondering how effective it would be. Sure would be less expensive than going to get painful treatments at $30 a pop.

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herpymcderp - 2015-08-20 00:04 (UTC) - Expand

Whenever I get a zit or splinter or blister or small wound or what-have-you, I use tape instead of a bandaid. It's a particular type of tape (I think it's either medical or athletic but it's not very common).

It works like a charm. It's my dad's standby.

Interesting. I could see athletic tape working out, but I feel like medical tape would just leave your skin sticky...

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(Anonymous) - 2015-08-19 23:50 (UTC) - Expand

I sometimes use masking tape instead of a bandaid when I get paper cuts.

Spruce or pine resin for small wounds, hot currant juice for sore throat and cold, and yoghurt for sunburns. We are rarely sick, so mostly it's just a daily dose of vitamin D, + Panadol and cough syrup when needed.

The sore throat cure sounds rather like the vitamin C cure of my mom's only more delicious.

I've never heard of yoghurt for sunburns, but I have heard of it as a skin mask so that sounds like it stands to reason.

Zinc tablets to boost the immune system. Especially if I have mouth ulcers indicating a deficiency. Dunno if that counts as "folk".

If I have a sore throat I keep spitting out phlegm until the soreness lessens, but idk if that just works for me.

Well, I don't think everyone takes zinc for immunity, so perhaps it half counts. I've never personally had a zinc deficiency, so I guess you could reasonably argue that being deficient in any micronutrient would affect the immune system.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-08-20 03:24 (UTC) - Expand

Onion juice to break up a stubborn cough and get the phlegm loosened. The nastiest thing, but it works.

The vitamin C thing is 100% true. Also the herb echinacea, and tea of dried catnip.

I find Echinacea is too unpalatable to work for me- I just can't stand to drink enough of it for it to be effective, so I have stuck with my usual remedy.

Onion juice was earache medicine at my house.

I believe there is some scientific evidence that suggests taking vitamin C during a cold helps in recovery, but it doesn't do anything to prevent colds. Also if you take too much, it just flushes out in your urine so there's no point in loading up on the stuff.

Hot tea with honey and lemon for sore throats is our home remedy.

Some studies have suggested yes, others no. As far as I know the jury is still mostly out. But no, it will not cure a cold.

I usually buy crystals and drink a solution of it throughout the day as it has a numbing effect on my throat for a short while after consuming it. Some relief is better than none, imo, especially if there's no real downside.

My mother swears by Echinacea. I'm pretty sure it is entirely placebo, though.

Depends? Some studies have suggest a significant effect. I mean, the thing to remember with the placebo effect is that it's usually not insignificant.

Hell, if we could figure out a way to consistently induce a placebo effect that would probably be one of the greatest advances in medicine.

Wet tobacco on bee stings! It is supposed to help.

Also, my dad thinks gargling/snorting salt water can help with anything.

Lol the salt water thing is my mom too.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-08-20 02:00 (UTC) - Expand

Chicken soup. Bottomless mugs of chicken soup.

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herpymcderp - 2015-08-20 00:02 (UTC) - Expand

Wet baking soda lathered on mosquito bites. Ginger root for stomachaches. Chicken soup for just about everything.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-08-20 00:19 (UTC) - Expand

Not surprising that the guy who doesn't know as much about medical issues and offers sometimes dangerous advice believes in folk medicine.

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herpymcderp - 2015-08-20 03:38 (UTC) - Expand

If I feel lika a cold is coming on I make one of these vitamin C powder packages you pour into a cup and add hot water too. If the cold is already there, home-made meat soup with lots of meat to make it delicious and fatty. It's sometimes the only thing I can eat when my tonsils are swollen. The soup is our universal remedy for everything, actually. (We just really like soup.)

For a bee sting, apply the cut end of a halved onion to the puncture wound after removing the sting. It's supposed to neutralise the poison, I think. I never questioned it, everyone in my family just does it, lol.

If anything is swollen (ankle, wrist, etc), liberally apply curd to it and wrap in a kitchen towel so curd won't spill.

Remedy for colds and flu: brew a strong cup of black tea and add to it a couple ounces whiskey, a little lemon juice, and some sugar (ideally a sugar cube or tablespoon honey). Drink as needed. It's pretty much "Hey I'm sick so I'm gonna drink", but it does make you feel better.

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herpymcderp - 2015-08-20 03:39 (UTC) - Expand

My mother has a tale of a quick remedy she was once given when she had a cold while on a choir tour in college. Salt and lemon juice. It sounds terrible, but she says it is very effective.

My pet routine for colds includes lots of hot lemon tea, some sort of eucalyptus flavoured sweets, Anticol, Strepsils (cold lozenges), vitamin supplements and Sudafed (cold tablets) if I have them, and probably a pot full of green soup.

My green soup is simply a pot if vegetables, which can be both frozen and fresh, boiled in stock until soft, then blended. It's green because I like to make it out of broccoli, cauliflower and spinach.

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