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Old wives tales and home remedies.

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  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    My mum always used soap poultice on our gravel/muddy grazes as kids. A thick layer of bar soap on a piece of gauze applied over the graze and left for a while- the bits of mud/gravel etc would stick to the soap... works a treat! 
  • Jules41Jules41 Posts: 178
    That's true @newboy2  Unfortunately the arthritis in my spine has been getting worse over the last 9 years and I'm not happy with lots of medication I've been given nor the operations I've been offered. I need to keep getting to work everyday so I'll happily give turmeric and Rosehip a try!  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    When a young teenager my son had some horrid looking warts on his hand and he was very embarrassed about them.  The local GP had tried various things but nothing available back then in the early 80s seemed to work.
     We were at his uncle's wedding and my cousin's wife spotted that my son was reluctant to shake hands with people ... she took him to one side and when he came back he was laughing ... he said that Jan told him she was a witch and would cure him of his warts by buying them from him ... she gave him £1 ... a week later they were gone!!! 
     The family has been very much in awe of Jan ever since ... she lives in Bath if that's any help at all ...  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    If we had thorns in our fingers that had gone in deep my gran use to make a hot potato poultice and apply that, you then wore it for a day or two.
    It worked use to draw the thorn to the surface it was then dug out with a needle, I don't ever remember it hurting I guess the skin had gone so soft.
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I understand that,in order for turmeric to be effective, it needs to be taken with black pepper. Easy enough to do,I suppose.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My mum tells me that an aunt bought a wart off me when I was little, but she only gave me a halfpenny :/
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    My mum tells me that an aunt bought a wart off me when I was little, but she only gave me a halfpenny :/
    You woz  robbed!!!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    B3 maybe she only brought half the wart.

    I believe with inflation etc today it's £20 if anyone wants to buy mine ??  :) I would offer BOGOF but I only have the one  :/
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • karen paulkaren paul Posts: 230
    Rubbing the wart with a match head is supposed to work too, not by setting fire to it obviously, lol. Something to do with the sulphur I think.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    A farrier told me to dip my son’s hand in the bucket of water he used for cooling my ponies’ shoes when he was shoeing them ... we tried that but it didn’t work. 😔 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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