-----Original Message----- From: Bill and Sue McNaught [SMTP:pp02570@email.kcc.edu] Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 6:39 PM To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Old Home Remedies Oh, Eddie. I'm almost sorry you brought this one up. Some of them were so horrible I shudder at the thought of them. But, you asked. A spoonful of sugar soaked in kerosene for a cough. A spoonful of sugar soaked in turpentine for worms. A poultice of onions fried in lard for pneumonia. Vinegar for burns. Buds from a Balm of Gilead tree (also known as cottonwood) heated in lard for an all-purpose salve. Spider webs to stop bleeding. Willow leaf tea for fever. Ginger tea for upset stomach. Rock candy dissolved in whiskey for chest congestion. All of the above work and have some scientific basis. I can't say that about the next one, though. When my grandmother delivered babies she always put a butcher knife under the bed to cut the pain. I know a lot more, but don't want to take up too much time or space. Sue McN. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their SURNAMES anytime they please. [Pam Moehling] Hi Sue, I couldn't hardly believe it when I read the Rocky Candy desolved in whiskey for chest congestion... My father suffered with asthma almost all of his life and he would make this and keep it in the medicine chest...sometimes when he made a new batch he let me have some of the candy..I'll never forget how sweet it was and it was pieces of white looking hard sugar about he size of a dime or smaller spaced so far apart on a white string...you placed the string of candy into a jar and let the string hang over the rim..when you put the lid on it kept the candy from falling down into the whiskey... When my mother was a young teenager she got what they called the "Flux" and if you couldn't get it "checked" (stopped) you would die because you just kept going to the bathroom until you got so weak you couldn't even function...My grandfather, Will PATRICK ,worked in the coal mines (Mingo County, WVA) and one of his miner "buddies" told him to stop on his way home from work and get some really good whiskey.. take a tablespoon of it and burn it and when it cooled a little he was supposed to let my mother takes sips of that burnt whiskey... three or four times..and you know by morning my Mom was up and about and it cured her. Pam