Old remedies from grandma

Stroking a sty on the eye with a wedding ring. I have used that one many times, especially when I was teaching and it always worked. Pupils must have thought I was a witch!😀
Cannot see any medical reason for it to work, but it does!

Eucalyptus for nasal difficulties.

Use in a humidifier with 1 drop of Eucalyptus.

Truly clears up the nasal passages. Do not abuse.

Yes I can remember dock leaves for nettle stings and gargling with salt water for sore throats.

Also drinking peppermint for period pains (it never really worked on me). My mother also had this odd idea that you should never wash your hair when you were having a period!

I still find that some of the old fashioned remedies have never been bettered.

Kaolin and Morphine is wonderful for upset stomachs but is difficult to get now without prescription. I buy it online.

Olbas oil is great for making infusions to clear that stuffed up feeling from your head when you have a cold/flu.

Vicks rub is smelly but does relieve a congested chest.

And I still swear by Senocott for conspitation but dont try the max strengh version unless you really want to "get things moving".

Wish I had known this a couple of weeks ago Biglouis I too had a painful lymph gland in my neck and it took two weeks to go down. No idea what caused it!

A tin of Zambuk. Herbal ointment.

Pink Germolene in a round tin....the slightest hint of any wound and out it came!

I can still smell it...

I had a nasty infection around my fingernail which was spreading up my finger, couldn’t get to see a doctor and chemist wouldn’t help, so I kept soaking my finger in a glass of hot salt water, several times a day. Cleared up after 3 days.

One of them told me an infusion of Borax rinsed through my hair would keep it blonde. My mum must have got the wrong kind as I could not rinse the bits out and had to go to school looking as if I had very bad dandruff.

My gran used salt as an anti-septic as well, if you had a mouth ulcer she just poured it in. She also advocated a swim in the sea for grazes and bruises, the water must have been cleaner.
Spit and a dock leaf rubbed into nettle stings and spit to get blood out of the cloth you were sewing.
She always used green soap and had lovely skin.
Sore throats were wrapped in brown paper and I seem to remember it being put down my vest with Vick on it for a bad cough and was "Chesty',
The worst was if you hinted you were constipated she made you drink cod liver oil with dire consequences.
My other gran lived in the country and she had her own still room under the stairs, I can't remember ever taking any of her remedies except Goose fat on chilblains. But my father swore by them. Poltices were bread soaked in some distilled herbs.

biglois that is fascinating. Will definitely remember that.
Remember my old gran (think Victorian) was always first port of call in the family when we were young. Trying to remember the many things she advocated but at the moment I can only remember advice such as lavender toilet water to make a sick person feel better. I remember as a child buying her lavender in solid form which she would put on her wrist. Also the answer to how she had such lovely skin was “Ponds cold cream” and green soap (available in jars from Boots) was best for hair. I certainly used the latter dissolved in a little water. The result was the softest hair I had ever had.

A bread poultice for boils.

Vinegar for wasp stings.

I still gargle with warm salt water when I have a sore/itchy throat.

Chilblains- as a sufferer of chilblains I was told by my aunt to put my feet in my own urine-it certainly cleared them up and took away the itchy burning sensation.