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From: "Sharon Black" <>
Subject: Fw: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:17:23 -0600


We used to get "doctored" with tobacco juice for bee and wasp stings.
Also with chest plasters for bronchitis and turpentine on the throat for
tonsillitis. A spoon of sugar with a few drops of turpentine in it was
for intestinal worms. (Used to get that every summer whether we needed
it or not.) One tsp. of white whiskey mixed with 1 tsp. of honey was
cough syrup. Even the folks who didn't drink kept a little jar of
moonshine on the medicine shelf. Anything that got infected got soaked
in hot Epsom salts water. Some of those old remedies worked pretty
good. Some didn't.
Sharon Black

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken & Betty Rowland" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13


Did anyone else have tobacco juice smeared on their bull nettle stings
to remove the "itch"? My dad always did that and it looked nasty but
took away the pain. Of course, he tried to "doctor" my city daughter
the same way and traumatized her for life! Perhaps the tobacco plant
[many varieties] is a good treatment to neutralize the formic acid?
Betty Rowland, Houston

http://freeweb.pdq.net/kenrow/

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> From: Andrea Ramsay <>
> To:
> Subject: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
> Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:41 AM
>
> According to sites on the internet, the leaves of the stinging
nettles,
> or bull nettles ("urtica"), are edible. They need to be cooked down,
> which removes the formic acid that causes the stinging on the skin.
> They are high in Vitamin C and supposed to have other beneficial
> qualities.
>
> As an aside, a couple of the notes on the internet indicate that many
> poisonous or irritating plants, such as poison ivy and stinging
nettles
> often grow in the vicinity of other plants which can be used to
remove
> the sting or the skin irritation. Would be useful to find out which
> plants counteract the irritations and learn to recognize them.
>
>
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