[alwaysconservative]

I remember:

My Mom tying strings around warts to get them to drop off.

Taking your fingernail and cross-hatching deep grooves into a mosquito bite.

Butter on burns

Tomato juice baths for those who had a run-in with a smelly animal (an encounter with a badger)

And one I still use: 3-4 Tbsp apple cider vinegar in 1/4 cup warm water and a few dashes of Tabasco sauce (we used to use horseradish or hot mustard), drink it down to clear up congestion. Tastes awful but cleans out those passages immediately!

[bevlar]

Yep! Good ole home remedies...as a nurse, I can tell you that many of them work better than what modern medicine has to offer :-)

[Iowa Granny]

And one I still use: 3-4 Tbsp apple cider vinegar in 1/4 cup warm water and a few dashes of Tabasco sauce (we used to use horseradish or hot mustard), drink it down to clear up congestion.

What??????? You mean you don't fry up a mess of onions, put them in a sock and secure the sock around your neck with a safety pin?

My Grandma did the fried onion thing. It made me cry, because I just didn't want to do it.