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Mom's 'Cures'

Di.Poppitt

Di.Poppitt

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Vic was one of mom's favourite remedy's. If we had a cold we were plastered with it.

Another was the bread poultice. Bread was soaked in HOT water, mixed into a paste and slapped onto the offending place. It was meant to 'draw', it drew tears because it burned. :cry:

Codliver oil and malt was delicious, lovley treacly spoonsful of heaven. It probably didn't do the teeth a lot of good though.
 
My Mom used on me for a Headache, would you beleive VINAGAR soaked BROWN PAPER on my forehead. I think she may have thought I was Jack or was it Jill! LOL ;D
ASTON
 
Yes, I remember those big jars of malt extract - my mom used to make me have a spoonful every day as a child. One of her 'cures' for earache was to put a piece of onion in my ear when I went to bed.
It was of absolutely no use whatsoever!! but you don't argue with mom - do you ??? LOL
 
Vinagar & Brown Paper, for a headache thats what my Mom used to put on my forehead.
May be she thought I was JACK or was it JILL. ???
 
I had a bad back last week so what did mom buy for me? a hot water bottle :) tell you what it eased the back ache,mom knows best hey :knuppel2:
 
Cod Liver Oil & Malt its still on the Menu at our home and Vic Di I love them both
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I've got the whole lot of the above...Vodka, Ovaltine. Just bought a very large jar of Vicks.
Says on the label "Do not put in nostrils". Did exactly that when I had a very bad cold two weeks ago. It helped a lot. I've also got Horlicks. I'm well set up I reckon.
 
I always put it up my Nose always did. Mom also made us swallow it we are still here aint we
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OOOO the pain Vic up your nose. I bet he found it a bit cramped. mind you Vic  used to get up my nose to :idiot2:
 
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERD ALF GREAT STUFF.
EVERY SUNDAY EVENING JUST AFTER 6 OCLOCK WE WOULD GET THE
TIN BATH OUT OF THE BREWHOUSE ,MIND YOU
NOT BEFORE THE VICTORY ROAD SALE -ARMY HAD COME PAST AND PLAYED A TUNE
THEN THE WHOLE 8 OF US WOULD LINE UP FOR OUR WEEKLY DOSE ,
OF COD LIVER OIL AND MALT, THAT WOULD PUT US
RIGHT FOR THE WEEK I SWEAR BYE IT,
 
All this talk of COD LIVER OIL & MALT reminds me of the Boots Chemist on the corner of Park Lane ,Aston Road just by Timsons shoe shop.All them demijohns full of colored liquids & draws & draws of pills stacked up to the ceiling. It was a place to cure all. :P
ASTON
 
Heres another .. ear ache warm olive oil , ewe :buck2: the smell was horrid.
 
Kaolin poltice........................ouch :'(

Beladonna plaster.................ouch, OUCH :'(
 
I dont know how to spell this so here goes,yellow bazelica think it was used to draw out boils? anyone else heared of it??? :-\
 
Blackjack if you cut your knees and got gravel in the cut... this was supposed to 'draw' it out as well.

Boots still sells this - think its proper name is icthamol.. this was the thick black smelly stuff.


My mom remembers her mom gathering nettles at 4 in the morning to make nettle tea 'for the blood'. My nan also swore by goose fat smeared on your chest with a square of muslin slapped over the top... pooh did we moan about that :'(
 
Yeah Aston - Colmans mustard bath - my great gran used to swear by that and she lived to the age of 90. She also swore by a wrap of Beecham's Powders

Janny
 
God it's all flooding back... that black smelly stuff was also known (I think) as Zambuck!!!

When I say thick I mean thick... and it stained your clothes

Anyone remember the flat round bottles of smelling salts.. we used to take a sniff of my nan's - nearly knocked us out, never mind clearing the head (I also remember doing the same with my uncle's snuff but that's another story!).
 
YELLOW BAZELICA cum on you lot,someone must have heared of it :-\ :-\
 
Hot coke ( from the fire place ) put in a cup of water then taken out and the water drank.
Anyone remember what it cured ?
 
Angie only playing ya up. Basil'icon was a name of several ointments the cheif ingredient of which was wax,pitch,resin and olive oil .................hows that O0
 
If we had wax in our ears, mom would pour hydrogen? peroxide in, we had to hold our head to one side for a few minutes, the potion would bubble up in the ear, but seemed to do the trick and melt the wax.
 
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