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From: "Margaret" <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:38 -0600
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I remember going to Granny Mabry's to spend a few days and she always put
Mentholatum under and in our nose and on the back of our tongue. I never new
why. If we were sick we got the Sally Rag.
Margaret

Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Black" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:17 PM
Subject: Fw: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13


> 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/
>
> ----------
> > 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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