Almost forgot: One more thing. In recent decades I’ve shown my jar of Gramma’s salve to three working Pharmacists to see if they recognized it or could figger out the original formula. NONE of those buttdraging witch dokkters wanted anything to do with it besides not knowing anything about it. And they couldn’t suggest a substitute. You’d think they’d be interested in something that works?
If it comes down to it I’ll save the last thimble full and buy a spectrometer. Maybe go to witch doctor school?
or could figger out the original formula.
https://www.answerseveryday.com/granny-clampetts-rheumatism-medicine/
Those recipes are well kept secrets.
‘If it comes down to it I’ll save the last thimble full and buy a spectrometer’
I hope you can. My anecdote: when my Gramma was a young.mother, she got a bad infection from a cut on her finger. Nothing her doctor tried helped, and the infection got worse. A relative took her to see a very old Indian woman on the reservation, who put a black paste on the infection. It worked. I have to wonder if this wasn’t the same thing. She always said that saved her life. I wish I knew more about all of it.