Browned Flour-- mixed with 1/3 glass of water stopped Diarrhea, also used for diaper rash. Brown paper and Vineager placed on the forehead cured a headache. Baking soda -place dampened baking soda on bee sting to draw the poision out Boiled onions juice, while still warm, was put in the ear and apiece of cotton to hold the juice in--for an ear ache. Cold water from the spring saturated to the back of the head and neck area to stop a nose bleed. Horse mint, Catnip,peppermint,penny royal, teaberry,mullin ,and Dog fennel boiled and used as teas to break a fever, break out the hives,measles,and chicken pox.Catnip ,penny royal, and peppermint was good for stomach ailments.Peppermint tea helped you to sleep. Whiskey and moonshine had many healing powers--Flue,pneumonia, toothache, labor pain,and to sterlize cuts. Buttermilk used to heal poision ivy or oak rash Saturate the infected area. Camphorated oil rubbed on the chest and place a warm flannel cloth over it--cured croup--congestion in the chest. We also put Penny royal in the dogs bed to keep the fleas away. Garlic would cure what ever ailed you. Annie