Scorch flour in an iron skillet for diaper rash. Rub leaves of jewel weed on poison ivy rash. Bathe in oatmeal water for rash. Rub feet with wood ashes for athlete's foot. Rub mint leaves on exposed skin to repel mosquitos and gnats. Scrape a potato and place on splinter to draw it out. The membrane inside an egg shell for boils. Pork fat works on boils too. Peppermint tea for colic or indigestion. Powdered sulphur mixed with lard or itch. Wash in water from a stump to cure freckles. Rub on cow dung to cure baldness. Steal a dishrag and bury it to get rid of a wart. My grandmother (1874-1958) had a rock with a groove in it. She burned pine knots on the rock and caught the tar in the groove. She made a cough remedy with this, but I've forgotten how. I've forgotten a few more of her herbal remedies too, but maybe someone else will be able to tell me about them. She used boneset tea, coltsfoot tea and sassafras root tea, but I don't remember what they were for. She did something with a little wildflower called hepatica. It was for the liver. She said her Indian grandmother taught her to read plants. The hepatica leaves were liver shaped and that was how they knew to use it for that. There was an herb that was smoked for asthma, but what was it? Thanks, Pam, for the flux cure. I hadn't heard that one. According to the Mortality Schedules a lot of people died from bloody flux. Sue McN.