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Cure for a powk. [eyelid pimple]

G G Jean

G G Jean

Brummy Wench.
I was talking to someone the other day with one of these and she said years ago they would tell you to rub your wedding ring across it. Something to do with gold. Has anyone else heard of this?. Jean.
 
Well Jean, it's been a very long time since I heard the word 'powk'. Dreadful things. I used to get get Golden Eye Ointment for them, but not sure that ut was entirely effective. Remember waking up with an eye glued together with one of those. Pretty disgusting really when I think about it! Viv.
 
Oh Jean you have taken me back there, mom always rubbed her wedding ring on powks (what an awful word). I remember my gran buying our warts, she would give us money for them and then they would disappear, she swore it worked.
 
Yes the wedding ring trick seemed to work for me too,however I don’t seem to get them now I’m older (touch wood).

It’s funny really because gold is pretty inert, so I have noidea how or why it works.
 
Yes Jean, my Mom also used to rub any stye we got with her wedding ring. It was really soothing when she did that and seemed to cool things down! Later we also used the Golden Eye ointment too.

Judy
 
Same here, I wonder why it worked and where the notion came from. I do remember 'Golden eye ointment' too. That was messy stuff. As children we all seemed to get those nasty things didn't we? Fortunately, I think most of grew out of them, a bit like excema at the back of the ears.
 
Yes. The wedding ring always worked, but I think any gold would do. It was just that the only gold object in most households was the wedding ring. Golden Eye Ointment too. Remember my gran when she was quite elderly trying to stick back a piece of wallpaper the budgie had pulled off. She couldn´t understand why it wouldn´t stick until Dad pointed out she was using Golden Eye Ointment instead of glue.
The tubes were similar & her eyesight wasn´t what it was.
 
When l was a child l often had styes on my eyes and they were so painfull (l wonder if it was to do with our diet in the war years)..mom always made a tealeaf poltice l put on when l went to bed and whalla the next morning it was gone...Brenda
 
senoraraz like the story about your nan and the eye ointment for glue. I said on here before that I once picked up a tube of super glue instead of the eye drops. They are so similar in shape and size. Brenda they say cold tea bags are good for tired eyes. I tried it once to be left with large brown circles round mine. Jean.
 
Mum used some powder in water to bathe a stye, (boracic or something like that) but I preferred the wedding ring!! I hated the poultices on boils, she made them from hot water and stale bread!!
I think they changed the formula of Golden Eye ointment recently.
rosie.
 
My Mom used her wedding ring on my styes but she always used to put the ring in her mouth first to wet it always worked
they were very sore and ugly so I used to wear a pink patch with little air holes in the top of it to cover mine up.
 
I had loads of styes when I was small, I was prescribed Golden Eye Ointment, but it did nothing for the pain!
 
It was always a wedding ring that my mom said would work..usually did the trick for us.

Margaret.
 
rosie said:
Mum used some powder in water to bathe a stye, (boracic or something like that) but I preferred the wedding ring!! I hated the poultices on boils, she made them from hot water and stale bread!!
I think they changed the formula of Golden Eye ointment recently.
rosie.
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Yes Rosie, I too remember bathing them in Boracic Acid. I agree they were common and must have been connected to the post-war diet. You rarely see children with styes/powks these days. Thank goodness, as they were so painful and unsightly. Viv.
 
Jean my tea poltice was the days befor tea bags...mom would take tea leaves wrap them in some gauze and applied it to my eye when l went to bed..usually the next morning it had done its job as it had drawn all the puss out of the stye....l think the tea was a lot stronger in those days too...Brenda
 
jean you spoke too soon at this moment in time i have a very sore right eye and im sure its the beginnings pf a powk or conjuctivitis there is a little lump so im certain its a stye i too tried the teabags and wedding ring but as a child i suffered terrible with them and also used golden eye ointmenti even aked my daughter to see if they had any in the chemists earlier today
 
True as I'm sitting here with my Jack Russel. Any powk was always rubbed with moms wedding ring and Granny Wight would back it up because she reckoned hers was more affective. Strangely enough it always worked and was a well known cure when I was a nipper. They said the gold did the trick but I'm not totally convinced of that. Regards, David.
 
Hi David. I read the other day that gold is used for other medical purposes. I must google it again but if you rub gold up and down a part of you skin it indicates that you have this certain condition???. Will go back and look it up. Jean. PS Oh just remembered it is suppose to find out if you have an iron deficiency if your skin goes dark?.
 
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It always worked for me I used Moms ring, I even used my own wedding ring after I married. I don't know why it worked but always seemed to do the trick. I know silver is used in special plasters to cure infections.
 
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