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To: RegulatorCountry

No, but it was known in my fam to draw out deep boils and ‘bone bruises’.


30 posted on 03/28/2014 5:43:17 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

My quarter-Cherokee grandmother used fatback for drawing out infection, raw potato for drawing out foreign objects. She was a heck of a fisherman too, she’d spit snuff into the water, reach her big toe down off the dock and swirl it around, then the fish practically jumped on the line. She claimed it hypnotized them, lol. She made medicines from old-fashioned candy and corn liquor too. Horehound, lemon drops. Pretty strong stuff, hard to tell if you felt better from anything medicinal or because you were mildly drunk. Of course, many of the modern over the counter cough medicines are pretty much the same.


50 posted on 03/28/2014 7:39:47 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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