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

[kingattax]

[pissant]

It worked!! I'm going to have to take and ice bath to regain my mojo!

[kingattax]

LOL

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"Aspartame for Arthritis

A scientist noticed that when he got up out of his chair after watching a football game, his arthritis pain was greatly diminished. During the course of the game he had consumed a six-pack of diet soda containing aspartame. He thought this artificial sweetener might have contributed to his relief. He organized a placebo-controlled trial involving aspartame (aka Equal, Nutrasweet) and confirmed that doses of 52 to 152 milligrams did indeed provide pain relief, roughly comparable to anti-inflammatory agents."

I guess he didn't notice having to run for the bathroom might have helped his pain.

[AlbertWang]

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.

The hot water uses up the histamine in your skin. Generally a hot soak will give 4 to 8 hours of relief.

[B4Ranch]

Superglue for small splinters

Put a dab on top of the splinter let it dry and then scrape it off. It attaches to the top of the splinter and will pull it out.

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, hey, bookmarkin' this. Thanks for posting this!

[Unknown Freeper]

Thanks for that tip, ranch. This should be a time (and grief) saver.

[tet68]

Run your dental floss through hydrogen peroxide before
flossing, it really helps!

Sometimes I'll dip my toothbrush in it and just brush,
it foams like crazy but kills plaque like mad.
Note, don't swallow, just rinse with water.

My dentist has seen a 100 % improvement.

[Moleman]

Windex. For any injury at all.

Are you Greek :-)

[SunkenCiv]

yeah, the hydrogen peroxide mouth swish also works like a charm for that. The taste isn't an acquired taste, one never likes it (I believe...) but eventually gets to the point where it can be ignored.

[mrs. a]

I had a HUGE pain in my neck but I got rid of him by applying a lawyer. A beneficial side effect was that I got rid of a bunch of unsatisfactory in-laws, too.

[Coleus]

I bet life is a lot better now.