General Chat

Just remembered, Mum used to paint the floorboards with permanganate of potash, used it myself to stain baskets when the dark flower baskets were selling well.

I remember going to school with the little bag of camphor pinned to the inside of my liberty bodice and the smell of the dreaded senna pods soaking. Hated both,.. and the liberty bodice!
Lots of the old remedies my nana used back then I use today as a naturopath and they work very well indeed without the side effects of modern drugs. My granda brought back from India curry powder and we used to sprinkle it into our boots to keep our feet warm. I tell my patients to do that with cayenne pepper in the winter.

Chica, strange that curry or cayenne can keep your feet warm lol
I just remembered some yellow ointment as opposed to the pink ointment lol, called Acriflavin for burns? Mum managed to tip boiling fat over her hand when making us chips one snowy day. She bandaged her hand and carried on, even going outside to try and knock us up a sledge as we wanted one to play out in the snow with and Dad was at work. It must have hurt her hand, working outside in the shed but she did her best to cobble together a sledge for us, despite not being a handywoman!

When I was about 11, I started to get a strange rash on my hands feet, elbows and sometimes in my mouth, it came out like big spots that turned into blisters, so painful I couldn't open or close my hands as the skin stretched and split. Doctors couldn't help at all but I remember my Dad one day came home with some Fuller's Earth cream, he must have spoken about me at work and someone recommended it. I don't think it helped much, even touching the blisters to put anything on them made me scream. I had to be helped with everything, washing, dressing and lost quite a bit of schooling through the rash. The erythomycin? I was prescribed made me come out in big cold sores on my lip, always in the same place and I still suffer with cold sores to this day. The rash used to appear every six months or so but once I left school I only ever had it one more time, a slight outbreak when I was 22.

Lizx

oA fried mouse was a traditional cure for whooping cough,and I am sure it worked extremely well.

Wasn't gripe water delicious?I liked Dinnefords too and have been known to use them for hangovers in my youth.Owbridges was a bit tasty too,well worth getting a cough for.

Sharron, I remember Owbridges!

Never had gripe water in the house at Mum's but used it for my son, sort of hair of the dog for you as I think it contained alcohol?

Lizx

One I know works is a paste of Epsom salts and water applied to a boil will draw it and ease the pain.

Anyone had Milk of Magnesia as a child? Horrible!!
also
Cod liver oil and malt? Delicious!!

Anyone remember Wrights Vaporisers used for croup? It looked like a little tin can with a tea candle and some coal tar based liquid that would make the house smell for weeks.

Rose

Anyone remember Sandersons Throat Specific, that and Fennings Fever Cure were given to OH and I as teenagers by his Father if we as much as sneezed. We were only talking about this yesterday with out Son. My Daughter (52) remembers camphor blocks attached to her liberty bodice and navy blue fleecy lined knickers.

I was given Milpar for constipation as a child on a tablespoon.It still makes me shiver when I think of it .It was disgusting.It came in a deep blue bottle .

I remember Milk of Magnesia.

what about that national health orange juice stuff, I can picture the bottle now.

Lizx

Hi the purple stuff, gentian violet we use to use it in hospital it dried up sores and stuff

I used to put a little milk of magnesia in my babies bottles when they got constipated it worked like magic no more achy tummies

May....You have reminded me of Sandersons throat specific.We always had that in the house,and I remember having to gargle with Glycerine of Thymol.
My father was a carpenter and a keen gardener and he was always using a Melrose block on his hands as they got chapped and it really helped.

Just saw Liz's (Purple Sparkly Diamond) comment about erythromycin.

My OH is extremely allergic to it: Just handling a tablet will start her off. She was prescribed it once and it very nearly killed her liver off !

Just reading about chapped hands from Brenda, I used to be a hairdresser in a past life!! We used UDSEL (for cows udders) on our hands. They used to get so split and sore with the harsh products that myself and colleagues went to bed plastered in it with white cotton gloves on top. Very romantic!!

I remember Kaolin and Morphine for a gippy tummy. I liked the taste.
Collis Brown mixture as well for the tum.

My dad gave me quinine when I had a heavy cold or flu.

Does any of the older generation remember Meggazones or something spelt like that. My nan had them.
SueBx

Indian Brandy! Used as the cure all for everything

What's Indian Brandy Ronald?

SORRY NOT READ ALL THREAD BUT THISISMY FAVORITE

IF KIDS GET A SICKNESS BUG TRY FLAT LEMONADE

HAS THE MINERALS YOU LOOSE IN

ALSO HEADACHES I FIND FIZZY LEMONADE HELPS