If so ya might look up "www.earthclinic.com do ya know someone with emphysema" its on there along with a lot of cures for pets as well,
Anyone interested in "Home Remedies" ?
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Thanks for the link blacjac.
One of my favorite home remedies came from my wise paternal grandmother: To soothe a sore throat, even an infected one, gargle from a cup of very hot (as hot as you can stand it) water with some baking soda and ordinary table salt stirred in. Do this about three times a day, and within one day you'll be feeling better and within three days your throat problem will be history! Never fails to work -- God bless Grandma!
I also discovered, through a desperate Google search about a year or so ago, that the same mixture, snorted up through the nose and spit out through the mouth, gives total though temporary relief from a constantly runny nose (you know, the kind that makes you go through a box of Kleenex in less than a day?). It sounds a bit gross but when you're that miserable and just want to stop the dripping, you really don't care. The way it works is that the salt dries up the nasal cavity and the baking soda keeps the salt from stinging.
A+!!!! :)
Ted, the resident "guru" on the site, needs to write a book. His ideas of health aren't very well organized.
It's intersting stuff. Apple cider vinegar, borax, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda seem to be possible cures for a lot of common ailments.
The placebo effect is still probably the heart of modern insured medicine.
jmleong, my grandmothers recipe was similar, but instead of hot water, you gargle stright whiskey. Worked like a charm. 8-) For earaches, she would dip a q-tip in whiskey and clean her ears with it. She's 87 years old and still kicking! SO she can't be totally wrong. 8-)
LOL, when I was kid and I had an earache my dad would blow cigarette smoke in my ears.
Yeah, that one never worked. :(
Thanks for the link. Not to make any unnecessary snide coments about American health care, but we might all have to turn to home remedies if the economy goes south and our crappy health care systems stays, well, crappy.
posted by historymike on Apr 05, 2008 at 10:59:10 pm #