Grannies Panacea. ........ Add Yours.

Love it May ?

I’m not a poet, but I do have a panacea, a jar of Sudacrem. My mother always had one in the cupboard and now I do too. Used on grazed knees, bumped heads, chapped hands, blistered heels and a million other things since my childhood!

A sufficiently large G&T usually works for me.??

Brilliant---and I even remember a good few of them being used.
Mine is Bi-Carb I think. Treats burns and indigestion amongst other things.

The juice from yellow poppy stems rubbed on warts to get rid of them.

WWM2 does that remedy work for veruccas too?

I remember a spoonful of paraffin and malt extract also rose hip syrup and brown paper on my tummy for travel sickness. I always have Sudacrem and oil of cloves in too and a bottle of wine or two in the fridge.

Two paracetamol usually cures me of many minor ills.

Another sudocrem fan, it also gets used on horses and dogs as well as people. If we got stung by nettles as a child we'd rub the rash with a dock leaf. We also had honey for sore throats.

Annodomini you need to cover the verruca up, either black nail varnish or black gaffer tape! Basically exclude any light getting to it.

Witch Hazel - no idea if it really worked but once the dreaded spots in puberty erupted remember Nan giving me a bottle of this and my skin never became as bad as some of my schoolmates.

A Swiss friend recently told me to use the hair dryer to blow warm air into my ear, when I had an ear ache. She was right. It worked.

Blasting the hottest setting on the hair dryer also kills the itch of a mosquito bite for 4 or 5 hours too. That one is my discovery.

Oh, should have added Sudocrem brilliant stuff !

Does anyone remember having Little Lung Healers?
They were very tiny black balls that we were given if we had a bad cold.
Also something called Imps to suck if we had a cough, they were tiny liquorice flavour tablets in a tin.

I remember my Grandma used to have bile beans in her drawer. Little black things if I remember correctly. She wouldn't tell me what they were for as you didn't talk about bowel issues in those days.

Annodomini I had a very large, troublesome verruca on my big toe. My chiropodist tried everything to get rid of it but had to be careful as I'm diabetic. The last thing she suggested was banana skin wrapped round the offending toe. I was extremely sceptical but to my great surprise it worked!

My grandmother’s panacea for any ailment was “Work it off”.
She lived a hard life.

Organic Coconut oil (solid) very cheap fromB and M around £1.85 has antibiotic properties works like a dream for me first sign of anything getting infected
My Nan gave me a little egg cup with whiskey in to rub on my gums when I had tooth ache I must have been about 4 ???
Can’t bear the stuff as an adult she also use to wrap salt in a hankie and heat it up for ear ache
Arrowroot clears up the trots , still use that my mum in law introduced me to it for the children it works
Calamine lotion for itchy chickenpox or sunburn and golden eye ointment for styes

A hot toddie cured most things when I was a lass.

My mother had a "blue bag" for wasp stings.

I think Witch Hazel had disinfecting properties. My beautician used to have some ready on cotton wool to hold against the skin of the upper lop when she waxed it. It had to go on immediately and had a wonderful soothing and cooling effect and no red marks!

anyone remember inhaling Friars Balsam for a cold? With a tea towel over your head

I remember those tiny black sweets called Imps Buffybee they tasted disgusting.

Ŷes I used to have to steam in friars balsam tea towel over head and not a health thing but we used to steep tea and when it was cold put it on our legs with cotton wool to give them a tan Did any of you do that and buy gum Arabic ( whatever that is ) from boots to wash your petticoats in to make the stick out stiffly under your circular skirt

My father swore by Fishermen's Friends to keep out the cold and soothe sore throats.
He said green soft soap was best for washing his hair.
Andrew's Liver Salts and Milk of Magnesia for upset tums.
Blackcurrant pastilles were my Mum's choice for a sore throat.
We had Friar's Balsam and Owbridge's cough mixture
Beecham's Powders if you felt ill.
Syrup of Figs to keep you regular and cod liver oil and malt to build you up.

But best of all was a drop of brandy in warm water with sugar.

Sudacrem is indeed amazing and miraculous stuff.
I have pots of it all around the house.

It's made in Ireland, and its name is derived from 'soothing cream'.

If you say 'soothing cream' in a bit of a rubbish Irish accent (or a good one of you actually are Irish) it does sound like Sudacrem.