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We have some new babies in the family, and one of them was not sleeping through the night. My mother suggested that they put a little cereal in the two-month old’s bottle at night. That was met with a lot of arched eyebrows and “thank you, Grandma, but we’re only giving the baby breast milk.”
My mother was not amused and said to me, “I had four babies and every one of you had cereal in your bottles. You were hungry. That’s why you couldn’t sleep.” I privately wondered if this is when my life-long battle with the stomach bulge began. “My doctor told me to do it,” she huffed. He also told her to give us a teaspoon of castor oil each day. I should point out that she was talking about many moons ago, when women smoked when they were pregnant and put babies down on their bellies to sleep and children rode standing up in the front seat next to their parents. 
My grandmother made us spread aloe on our skin after being in the sun. She said it would prevent peeling. It didn’t. It made us feel better, but the skin always peeled. This is the same grandmother who drank a glass of buttermilk every day to help with her digestion. My other grandmother swore that Oil of Olay would burn your skin if you left it on too long, and that eating a big, white, raw onion like an apple was good for her diverticulitis. Where did they get this stuff?
But some of it has been clearly ingrained into me. I told a kid recently who had the hiccups to eat a teaspoon of ketchup. When my brother had indigestion, I told him to jump up and down several times. That just came out automatically, with no thought, and I honestly have no idea where it came from. And, I admit, I look for sun products with aloe in them just in case. I have recently read that cherries are the perfect antidote for gout, and I remember another ancient relative who believed in the overall power of cherries. However, I do not, and have never, eaten raw onions like apples. 
What home remedies were used on you? Do you have any that have held over? What potentially life-threatening things did your parents do to you?
I can picture my brother, when he was a toddler, standing up on the front seat of the car. He would lean forward with his hands on the dash board. An accident waiting to happen – but it never did.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:52 am.
My brother and I rode like that everywhere. Standing up next to each other. Isn’t that crazy?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:59 am.
We use a teaspoon of sugar under the tongue to help with the hiccups. It really works! Mum also used to torture me with raw onion chopped up and put into the mashed potato to help ward off colds. To this day I can’t stand raw onions in anything. When dad was a DJ he would do discos at the neighbourhood hall and mum would have a heap of kids in the car dropping them home so my sister and I would be in the far back of the station wagon. It was dangerous enough that if mum had hit the brakes both my sister and I would have flown out the windscreen and been hurt.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:16 am.
Wow, that is so wierd. My Mom used a teaspoon of sugar right to the back of the tongue. For me – its 5 gulps of water without breathing. Works like a charm!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:27 am.
I have never heard of onions for colds. Maybe that’s what my grandmother meant.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm.
My sister makes the most kick butt cough syrup using ginger and onions with honey and lemon juice. She cooks it down until it is half the original amount and then strains it through a fine sieve.
When we were kids we would get hot almond oil in the ear for earaches, not a favorite. Hot whiskey, honey & lemon for colds, to this day hate the taste of whiskey all alcohol actually.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:57 pm.
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Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:38 am.
When I had a cold my mom would make onion juice. It helped with the coughing and the sore chest. She would cook the onions with a little water and sugar. It actually tasted better than it sounds. It did help. Back in ancient times, there were two seated cars. Mom and I would go with a lady who had one. I would have to lay on the back shelf. I was small enough to fit there. Probably why I never grew very tall.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:30 am.
Very funny, Sandi! I remember those shelves. My oldest sister had a car like that.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm.
Surely my family had some of these wacky ideas – like don’t paint the walls gold, they’ll tarnish – but I’m drawing a blank.
Julia, yours are really funny. I can just picture the enthusiasm with which they were preached.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:58 am.
I can only tell you that to this day, I do not touch Oil of Olay, even though I KNOW she was wrong.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:01 pm.
My dad put vinegar on sunburn. It was supposed to take away the sting. It certainly smelled badly enough so no one came near enough to touch you.
For hiccups I tell my kids to drink water upside down. They always roll their eyes but it works for me.
I still rub Vicks on the chest for a cold. Or around the throat for a sore throat, then wrap in a towel. If it doesn’t work it still feels good.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:46 am.
Wow, Lori, that seems like it would make the sting worse. Vinegar is acidic, so he was literally pouring acid on his wound!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:43 am.
I know, Susan. He heard of the remedy when he was stationed in Libya in the Air Force. I let him try it on me once. Once.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:52 am.
Mum suggested that tomato slices on sunburn helps. Vitamin E cream also helps I found as a teen.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:11 am.
Or breathing in Vicks. Remember that?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:02 pm.
Ooo, yeah. In a big pot of hot water? Still do it.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:34 pm.
HAHA! This is pretty funny. My Mother in law also was a proponent of putting cereal in the bottle. She said my sister in law was a hungry baby.
As for hiccups, mine was, drink a cup of water with a spoon in it. I think the trick is that you are so busy trying not to poke your eye out with the spoon handle, that the hiccups go away!
I’ll have to think on any others that don’t come readily this early in the morning.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:46 am.
Jen, hilarious. What do you think the spoon had to do with anything? Hahaha
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:03 pm.
My mom and grandma said the same thing about cereal in the bottle.
We were always a Vicks family, too, Lori, and it still smells comforting when I’m sick.
My grandpa was always offering to do the string around a loose tooth and attached to the doorknob.
Most of the really interesting ones I heard when I moved south, though, and worked in the hospitals. Like–a woman with engorged breasts should squirt her milk on a hot brick to make it dry up. Or feeding a baby pot liqueur. There was also a strange one about pregnant women who eat odd things–we saw paper and play-doh–but I can’t remember what it was supposed to signify!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:23 am.
Apparently cabbage leaves are great for dealing with mastitis.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:57 am.
Deb, ouch ouch ouch! (engorged breast remedy)
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:04 pm.
I admit, when my kids were babies, they got cereal in their bottles. Just a little. My MIL suggested it, and at that point, I was so sleep deprived that I was just about ready to go nuts from a lack of REM sleep. I tried it, and it was better afterward because well, everyone was rested and could function.
My grandma always told me that butter and sugar would make a cold go away. Dude, life can’t get any better than butter and sugar combined! Not the healthiest, but the basic building blocks of cookies.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:38 am.
My brother used to eat that as a snack.
My mom is going to be thrilled that she was not alone in putting cereal in bottles and that children across America turned out okay
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:06 pm.
A little cereal in the bottle is a good thing even if they are breast feeding. Sometimes there just are not enough nutrients in the milk to get the job done,
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:15 pm.
The cereal can help baby sleep, my pediatrician and the literature told me why. Babies spit up.. it’s often due to reflux, when you lay down reflux gets worse, the extra weight behind the cereal helps the food stay down and not come up to irritate baby’s throat and wake him/her up. Though they do suggest you avoid putting it in the bottle and instead pour it down with a spoon to avoid getting baby used to drinking more solid stuff.
As for home remedies, saltines and flat lemon-lime soda when you can’t keep anything else down, aloe on burns to soothe, cornstarch in the bath for soothing itches like hives or chicken pox, vicks on the chest and a humidifier going when congested, and others I’ve probably forgotten.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:41 am.
I didn’t know that about cornstarch.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:06 pm.
My folks were big on the home remedies. Vicks could cure anything according to my Dad (kind of like Lori and Deb). I still put it on my feet (with socks) and chest when I have a cold.
Tea tree oil cured ALL skin maladies (last night out of pure desparation I doused a zit on my chin with tea tree oil–it was much smaller this morning..)
Apple cider vinegar is used for indigestion–this does work! It burns like the blazes when you first swallow it, but you’re in good shape about two minutes later.
Yogurt was put on sunburns–I’ll still use it, if I get a really bad one.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:53 am.
Tea Tree Oil is actually a really good thing for skin issues. It’s also used in a lot of beauty products so I figure it’s got to be good on it’s own too.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:53 am.
Tea tree oil! That sounds like something I should invest in.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm.
I can’t stand the smell of tea tree oil, I don’t care how good it is for you. I use lavender and rosemary instead, it works as well for most things and smells so much better.
One of the best books I have on home remedies is The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood, the remedies are so simple and they really work very well. After using this book for awhile you can start to figure out your own remedies made to suit you.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:10 pm.
I’ve heard of many of those. My mother-in-law thinks that one piece of coal in the baby’s bottle will help with colic. She is also of the mind that babies should be put on their bellies at night because “it was ok for [her] kids”, so why wouldn’t it be ok for mine? I’ve had plenty of moments where I say “thank you for the advice; I’ll think about it/consider it.” I have discovered that if I do not want the advice, I simply don’t say anything about my plans or what’s going on with my children.
The home remedies that I grew up with would be the aloe vera (my mom puts it on EVERYTHING that’s a potential ‘boo-boo’). She also made us drink aloe vera juice because it ‘heals our insides’. My mom is a trained reflexologist and aesthetician, so growing up, if I had a headache, she would say “squeeze your big toe”. And when I wanted to shave my legs as a youth, my mom refused, telling me that I should wax or use the ‘epilady’. *shudders* that thing was torture. There were NO pills of any kind, no medication in my house growing up. My mom believes that any and all ailments can be cured with the power of the mind. I must admit, that it’s worked on some occasions, but more often than not, I’m doing as the doctor recommends.
To this day, my mom tells me to squeeze my big toe when I’ve got a headache and drink aloe vera when I’m sick. Of course, she buys me the juice, so I have no choice, but to drink it. Since moving out with my husband (at the time, boyfriend), I ignored my mom’s suggestions and took tylenol when I got a headache.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:42 am.
I have tried to squeeze the big toe with a headache, and it never works! Yoga teaches a lot of this stuff, too — like rubbing the bottom of your feet will help digestion.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:09 pm.
This makes me wonder what kinds of things we do now that will be considered silly in the future. I take a baby aspirin each day because I’ve read about it as a way of preventing everything from migraines to colon cancer (head to toe…).
I remember gargling with saltwater whenever I had a sore throat. Does that really work? I never felt like it did, but Mom insisted.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:57 am.
That is something that dad recommends. I can’t stand gargling, I would rather take an Advil. If the pain lasts longer than 24 hours then I probably should make a doctors appointment and see if I have tonsillitis. If so then it is a case for antibiotics
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:10 am.
I’ve seen the baby aspirin thing for preventing heart attacks and heart issues but not for colon cancer…lol
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:54 am.
My doctors have told me to gargle salt water before.. blech.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:43 am.
I’ve heard that about baby aspirin, too, but my doctor told me I didn’t need to do it. Which is neither here nor there, because I would have a hard time remembering to take it every day. Just ask my supplements
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:11 pm.
Your supplements are lonely and feeling neglected.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:12 pm.
Gads. While I was sick a week ago, I TRIED to gargle salt water. Hell, I tried to gargle regular water. My throat was quite resistant on that. YUCK!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:14 pm.
Laughing because we have a new baby who is not sleeping through the night and both I and the other Grandma suggested cereal. Mama is not inclined to try it.
I believe a lot of home remedies are worthwhile. Warm milk before bed, aloe for burns, ginger for upset stomachs, and cherries for gout.
But then I’m kind of a back to nature kind of person.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:20 am.
I have a friend who still drinks warm milk at night before she goes to bed and swears she sleeps like a baby.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:12 pm.
We were raised on vicks vapor rub too.
A hot tea bag laid on your eye to help a sty.
a piece of duct tape put on the bottom of your foot for a plantars wart (this really works but takes a few months…)
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:44 am.
Robin–my dh’s eye doctor recommended the tea bag for a sty!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:56 am.
I was told by mum that rubbing a gold ring on the sty helps get rid of it. Weirdly enough it worked on the few times I had a sty.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:52 pm.
I know my mom did the cereal in formula thing for me as a baby….and then there was the dark Karo syrup for when you had stomach/digestion issues. Dad had the gargling with salt and has long been an advocate of a hot water bottle….lol
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:46 am.
So did no one else here have to have a teaspoon of castor oil each day?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:12 pm.
Ok. My mom used to do the vinegar on the sunburn also. If you have a splinter wrap bacon around it (about made me squirm). My friend says her dad used epsom salts for everything from fevers to sunburn. Honey for a cough. I can honestly say that the cherry thing totally worked for me. I do not have gout, but do have arthritis in the knees and when it bothers me I drink cherry juice. It worked! The worse thing my parents did to me was introduce me to my older brothers. The oldest “accidentally” dropped me down the stairs when I was a baby. The second brother we won’t even talk about, and the last, well he put a snake in the mailbox and left it in there for me. Nuff said?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:47 am.
Kelly, oh my god. Are they still alive? I might have killed my brother for that.
I believe in the cherries thing, too, as I know someone with gout who drinks cherry juice, and it speeds the recovery.
I use epsom salts all the time after a long run. It helps to reduce the inflammation in my legs.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:14 pm.
Hey, I remember hearing about them putting paregoric in the baby’s bottle, and it had opium in it. That only stopped in 1970 (and we wonder why all the hippies were into drugs … hmm). So cereal in the bottle is pretty mild. *G*
Mom said they were urged to put kerosene on a sugar cube and take that for colds. Apparently this was common in South Louisiana. I shudder to think of it.
The one I remember is a bit odd and most of you may not have heard of it, but on the beaches in Thailand, there were always cuttlefish bones around, and the claim was that if you scraped off some of the bone and mixed it with water to put on jellyfish stings, it would soothe the sting. I don’t remember it working particularly well, though.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:59 am.
What is paregoric?
And kerosene on a sugar cube? Yikes!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:15 pm.
Paregoric was this elixir for coughs that dates back to before the Regency. It had opium in it, and they would give it to children! I used that in my last book. I was going to use laudanum, and then I looked the word up on a whim on Google books for my period, having remembered hearing it as a child, and lo and behold they were using it then! I couldn’t believe it.
I know, the sugar cube thing freaks me out.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:47 pm.
My grandmother always believed that castor oil cured everything. I would cough she told me to take castor oil. I had tummy issues pull out the castor oil. Finally in desperation I tried and while it did work I found something else that worked better and didn’t taste so bad. I’m all for natural remedies, too. Aloe vera works really well for sunburns. Always keep a bottle of it in the fridge. My mother is a big believer of a little cereal in the baby’s bottle too and if I had had children I would have done the same thing. I value my sleep and if I don’t sleep well I can’t function. Ginger works really well for upset tummies.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:28 am.
Another castor oil baby!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:16 pm.
Mom gave us castor oil, too. Ugh.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:48 pm.
My Grandmother told us that she drank a glass of vinegar and honey to keep her hair black! Soo gross, although I think she actually dyed it, so I have no idea what the vinegar and honey was for. Yuck.
And some of my male co-workers years ago told me they would give their kids a little sip of Jack Daniels when they were teething!!!! So scary…
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:31 am.
That is very scary, Rebe.
Vinegar and honey, eeewweee!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:16 pm.
Oh yeah, a little whiskey on the gums was standard for the teething ones. Worked like a charm too
Lots of gum smacking going on 
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm.
We lived in a teeny town as a kid with no doctor in town.. so I had hot toddies as cough and cold medicine, Jack Daniels rubbed on my gums for teething. Both might explain a few things.
We always have had aloe growing somewhere in the house to sooth burns and put on wounds.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:43 am.
Explains a lot, Sheridan. A lot.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm.
*nods* truth.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:28 pm.
My elders used to use sugar to stop cuts from bleeding.
My mom uses a honey ginger mix for coughs.
When possible I like to try home remedies.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:49 am.
I prefer home remedies, too. I do not like taking pills.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm.
IF I have hiccups, I eat a teaspoon of peanut butter. It works every time and sound lots more appetizing than ketchup. If the three year old has hiccups, she asks me to “scare her hiccups away.” So I have to distract her then scare her. Its kind of tricky but works for her.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm.
That does sound a lot better than ketchup.
The three year old is going to grow up and have memories of you jumping out of closets and scaring her, LOL
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:18 pm.
Apparently, I had a hard time with teething. This older woman told my mom and gave her blackberry cordial to rub on my gums. She tried it – and it worked. Of course, I probably had a little bit of a buzz at 10 months old, lol.
One of my grandmas used aloe for everything – digestion, warts, sunburn, etc.
My other grandma had a few more home remedies. She’d drink sauerkraut juice to prevent ulcers (this was proven on Dr. Oz as it does heal over 90% of ulcers); chew parsley after dinner to prevent bad breath; she used Oil of Olay every day (and always looked much younger than her age). I know that they’re more, but all I can think of are home remedies that her mom, my great-grandmother, had. She had some good ones – cayenne pepper for a stuffy nose; recipes for baby food and baby powder; chocolate cures all ills (she always had Hershey bars on hand). I know that there are more because she wrote TONS of letters to my mom when I was a baby with at least 3-4 home remedies in each letter.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:14 pm.
Janae, what a treasure! I hope you guys kept the letters.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:18 pm.
My mom has the letters, and I’m CONSTANTLY asking when they’re going to be mine because I’m the family historian. I really want the letters that my grandma wrote to her parents during WWII that my mom has, too.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:33 pm.
My mom had a cough medicine she made herself. It was lemon juice and honey. For the life of me I can’t remember if it helped or not. Probably not since I have never felt the need to make it myself.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:15 pm.
One home remedy that did work was to put oatmeal on an itch, like poisen Ivy. Aveedo makes a bath solution that has it now, for that and for chicken pox.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm.
Chicken pox! Do people still get chicken pox?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:18 pm.
My niece just had the chicken pox a month ago! Until then I had forgotten about them!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:31 pm.
Whiskey and honey for a bad cough — it was supposed to be soothing, but who do they think they’re kidding? A dash of whiskey puts a kid right to sleep. *g*
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:02 pm.
And a few grownups, hahaa
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:19 pm.
We all had whiskey and honey for coughs – and my mom was a nurse! It seems to work. I didn’t like the taste, but no coughing!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:59 pm.
My grandparents swore by cod liver oil. They took it every day of their lives. But they were both pretty healthy until the end years. Nan was 81 and Granda was 89 when they died.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:17 pm.
Good for the heart.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:20 pm.
I also put a little cereal in my kids bottles to help them sleep at night. I was told to start with the Rice kind as it’s blander and easier on the stomachs. My daughter also fed both hers cereal also.
Vinegar and aloe vera for sunburns helps take the sting out.
Bending at the waist and drinking water from the opposite side of a glass of water always cures my hiccups.
upset stomach? eat peppermint. I have also heard of ginger…which is probably why my mom made me drink ginger ale when i was sick.
White toothpaste is supposed to help get rid of zits.
Honey is supposed to be good for all sorts of things. If I remember correctly( not sure about this, I will have to research)but I believe it is good for burns. It is supposed to have lots of healing properties and is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:24 pm.
No wonder I like honey so much!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:20 pm.
Always had aloe for burns and sunburn, honey for sore throats and coughing and I’ve been known to use it on small cuts since it’s impossible for bad bacteria to grow in honey…. Vicks on the back or stomach when sick…..and I remember my mom reading and telling me about cherry juice for joint inflammation.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:57 pm.
Cherry juice is definitely back in vogue.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:21 pm.
My one grandfather used to say, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An onion a day keep everybody away.”
That said, there is some truth in the health properties of onions and garlic as well as cherries and apples. Just ready a study on cherries, actually, and apparently, the do help with join issues.
My oldest daughter had indigestion and heartburn issues for years. Docs kept giving her prescriptions for acid reflux and whatnot with no relief. I gave her apple cider vinegar. It seems counterintuitive, but it worked for her. She keeps it in her pantry these days.
Aloe is good for soothing burns and healing skin, but burnt is burnt; peeling will happen. Still, I remember Mom breaking off a piece of the plant and rubbing it on our skin. The coolness . . . ahhh.
Parsley works for bad breath. So, if you eat that onion, follow it with a sprig of parsley.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:50 pm.
Onions don’t set well with me, Gwyn, so no problem there. I will have to try apple cider vinegar. Seems like that would add to the problem, doesn’t it?
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:32 pm.
No, because rather than having too much acid, some stomachs don’t produce enough so what is actually happening is the food is producing methane in the belly rather than being completely digested (sounds disgusting, I know). Give it a try. I hope it helps you.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:37 pm.
Agreed! Apple Cider Vinegar is the wonder cure for heartburn!
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:51 pm.
Aloe is awesome. I agree that it doesn’t stop you from peeling, but if you are burnt, it will help soothe the skin! It doesn’t hurt you and it feels great. What’s to lose?
When I have a sore throat, I make hot toddies – strong English or Irish breakfast tea, a dollop of whiskey, lemon juice and sweeten with honey to taste. It soothes my throat, tastes awesome, and helps relax the achy muscles from having a cold. Being able to make those is one of the perks of being an adult!
My mom (entire family really) are big on home remedies. When I had an upset stomach, my mom would cut up a banana and sprinkle powdered ginger on the banana slices and have me eat it. I always remember feeling better after. She also gave me mint tea when I wasn’t feeling well and chamomile tea if I couldn’t sleep. She drinks cherry juice regularly for her arthritis.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:50 pm.
Ginger is supposed to be a great remedy for motion sickness, too. They used to drink ginger beer. The mysterious “they”
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:47 pm.
About eating a raw onion like and apple – my younger brother got the youngest boy to eat it. He now hates raw onions in any form. It could have been the humiliation when he was laughed at.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:01 pm.
My grandson’s doctor had us putting cereal in his bottle at a month old (making it as thick as pancake batter). He spit up really bad all the time, and the thought was that the thicker it was would help him keep it down. Didn’t help with the sleeping though, because the problem was with his small intestine, and he wasn’t digesting the food, therefore he was hungry and cranky. It didn’t make him gain weight either. Until he was about 2 years old he wasn’t even on the growth chart.
For hiccups, eat a spoon of sugar. I think the idea is that as long as it takes to eat, kinda changes your breathing, and makes them go away.
Also, taking Apple Cider Vinegar or Organic Apple Juice is supposed to help reduce cholesterol, lower blood pressure and blood sugar, and help you lose weight.
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:08 pm.
I’m a huge fan of aloe also. I always use it for sunburn and I do find that it makes it fade much faster and often prevents peeling. My Stepdad is a big believer in capsicum (the stuff that makes hot chilies hot) as a cure for literally everything. Joint pain, sore gums, colds, you name it, he’ll recommend capsicum as the cure.
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:20 am.
Never heard of that one, either Jen. Will have to check it out.
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:00 pm.
Still use Vick’s when I’m congested. It does smell awful, but it helps.
We used gripe water for the kids when they were constipated or having other tummy issues, and my daughter uses it for her little munchkin as well–we got it at a health food store. It smells horrid, but it defintely works quickly.
Since allergies are so prevalent here in central Texas, I use a lot of honey. It’s a natural expectorant, so I put it in hot tea, on sandwiches, etc.
The worst one I remember wasn’t from my mom, but my best friend’s mom. I went with them to see my friend’s sister in Mesquite, TX when we were in high school. I must have gotten some kind of stomach bug because I had some serious nausea and vomiting issues, and we were quite a ways from from. Her mom made brown rice and had me drink the water from the rice…it was absolutely VILE and totally made me toss my cookies. To this day, I will not eat brown rice…ever. I don’t care if it’s good for me, it is not passing through my lips.
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