Presenting...The top 20 home remedies, A witches' brew of elixirs and potions that work!

NY Daily News ^ | 04.06.05 | Joe and Teresa Graedon

[pissant]

Molly Ivins for excessive horniness

[cripplecreek]

I walk backwards in a counterclockwise circle at a crossroads 3 times at midnight to cure a headache. However if I see a black cat on my way to the crossroad it will cause impotence. To offset the black cat effect I walk clockwise twice and once counterclockwise.

[Coleus]

wouldn't all that turning around give you a headache?

[cripplecreek]

The police usually have some pretty good headache meds if I do.

[rdb3]

These may work, but I have no experience with any of them.

Good down home remedies was my paternal grandmother's specialty. For example, I had got chicken pox one summer and it itched like crazy. She laid out a couple of sheets and poured a lot fo corn meal on it. She told me to strip down butt naked and roll in it. Embarrassing for an eight year old. I obeyed and it was grimy but very soothing. I fell asleep in it, even.

A couple of summers later, I pulled a muscle when I fell off of my bike. After a day or so of swelling and pain, she simply rubbed red vinegar on that muscle in my leg. It hurt like hell because she really rubbed into that muscle.

I didn't limp badly at all the next day.

My friends laughed at me when I told them back home in Cleveland. ;-)

[Petronski]

Helen Thomas for any horniness.

[TASMANIANRED]

Actually Mayonnaise for head lice and it is easier to get out than Vaseline. Put it on for 2 hrs and wrap it with saran wrap.

Use antiperspirant instead of meat tenderizer for insect stings.

[Petronski]

Archway Coconut Macaroon Cookies for Diarrhea

Lots of people have written to tell us they have tried eating coconut macaroons to stop diarrhea with great success.

O, eating the macaroons to stop diarrhea. That's a relief.

[SE Mom]

My favorite one- for any sting or bug bite is a paste of baking soda and water- put a glob on the bite- wait a minute- sting is gone:)

[Hank Rearden]

Hot water for itching does work. I'm highly allergic to ivy (any species of ivy is poison ivy to me), and when I was a kid I'd eventually encounter it and my hands would swell and itch like crazy.

About the only relief was to run hot water over my hands; the hotter the better, as hot as I could possibly stand for as long as I could stand it.

I probably was just killing off all the nerve endings, but it worked.

[DouglasKC]

Windex. For any injury at all.

[TASMANIANRED]

Mayonnaise works for hunan hand or Chinese restaurant syndrome.

If you are chopping hot peppers and get the hand burn, rub mayo on, and then wash off. If the burning persists soak them in iced vinegar.

[Grammy]

For chicken pox we always put oatmeal in a stocking and threw it in the tub with the kid. Soothed them very well.

Bee stings got a paste of baking soda, wasp got vinegar. Bees have acid poison, wasps have alkaline.

What I REALLY want is a cure for ticks and chiggers. If they get any worse they might just kill me this year.

[Unknown Freeper]

I've tried the Bag Balm. It works. Both Bag Balm and Crack Creme are good if you can get past laughing hysterically at the names.

Bag Balm - http://www.bagbalm.com/

Crack Creme - http://www.crackcreme.com/

[TASMANIANRED]

Something else that is good for poison ivy is oatmeal.

Don't spend 8 bucks for a box of aveeno, put a handful of oatmeal in a sock. Run warm water over it and work it in your hands till it leaks milk. Pat the milk on the blisters.

[537cant be wrong]

wide open spaces for bad gas.
doesn't help the perp any but those left inside all claim that they are relieved.

[Ciexyz]

most interesting

[Balding_Eagle]

Gin-Soaked Raisins for Arthritis

Isn't that what TH Kerry was eating?

[IdahoNative]

Witch Hazel takes the sting out of scratches/scrapes and the itch out of insect bites