Herbs And Remedies

Felicia,

I agree this is a great topic. Honey is one of the best natural antibiotics. And it tastes good too! Your comment about the brown paper bag reminded me of an old story my grandmother told me. Her brother was playing with gunpowder (as many mountainfolk might do) and just about blew his finger off! Imagine that! Anyway the doctor want ed to remove the finger as it was “hanging by a thread”. I’m guessing that the bone was intact. My gr.grandmother packed the finger in brown sugar and wrapped it in a brown bag bag. The finger healed fine. I haven’t thought of that story in 40 years. Thanks for jogging my memory.

Did you get my email? Linda suggested we talk about our Clay family connections.

Jim

Felicia,

Okay … my gr. uncle (my grandmother’s brother, but not the one that blew his finger off) used to mine clay in the Poor Valley of Lee Co. VA. My grandmother always kept a jar of it on her bathroom sink when I was young. As the story goes, Palmolive (spelling) wanted to buy the patent for it’s healing qualities but he’d had an earlier bad experience with the patent office and declined the offer. I was just discussing this with my cousin last week. He wants to find the mine.

As for salts, if used in baths, they will help to remove poisons by opening up the pores and drawing out the toxins. You should always rinse well after a salt bath, first to remove the toxins that were drawn out and then use cool water to close the pores again.

As for garlic and onions, they are good blood purifiers. They “warm the body” and will stimulate blood flow. Garlic (and I’d assume onion too) also has strong antibiotic properties. Garlic has three potent ingredients, iodine, sulpher, and ??? (I can’t remember the third). This is just off the top of my head. I can give you a more detailed answer if you like, including what chemicals are present with a little research.

Here’s a link for Wikipedia’s article on garlic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic#Biology_and_chemistry

Jim

I do think it is great that you all are sharing some “home” remedies. We all need to “get back to the basics” with our health. Now, I am not discrediting medical professionals, but most illnesses would not even advance if we were using “our” herbal remedies from the beginning. I was told that my great-great grandmother was a Voodoo Doctor but I believe that she just used herbal remedies for the good of the community. She even lived to be 104 years old!!! I was told that it was “hush hush” because of the authorities. I believe the same thing is happening today. There are always commercials promoting “drugs” with SIDE EFFECTS:mad:

I do recommend the book called, “Natural Cures They Don’t Want You To Know About,” by Kevin Trudeau. I read it and a light bulb came on in my head. Think about it, the FDA wants to keep people sick because it is a big money-making business.

Felicia, you reminded me of a treatment my mother used passed on by her mother and grandmother. My fever was very high and my father had taken me to the doctor. Upon arrival back home I was to be put in a dark room and kept quiet and of course medications were prescribed which they started me on. As the afternoon passed my fever climbed and my head hurt bad enough to split. There were times I was halucinating and Mama said I am going to fix this. She soak brown paper bag in vinegar. Wrung excess out and laid the folded bag over my forehead and temples. You could actually feel the heat coming through the bag and in less than an hour my headache was gone and my fever begin to break. I did continue on the course of prescribed medication as well but with out a climbing fever and severe headache. ED

For a sprain or insect bite Mama took dirt dauber nest and cleaned out the dead insects. Mashed up the clay nest with vinegar making a poultice and applying it to draw poison and soreness out. It worked!!!!!!!!

Well here is a thread that I like, not that I don’t like the rest but herbs are really at my heart, we have a great deal of this in my family, and family stories aswell.

We have one medicine that my Mom told me about it works so well., one friend of mine used it on the sores that she recieved as a side affect of her chemo, it worked!

Anyway this topic has come up many times here, if a search is done and a sticky note attached to them we could really have some great moments to share!

Hey Shirley, I could get some heat over this but… it’s for a great cause, our health.

There is a plant called acorus calamus, look it up in a text first, it has a very powerful effect on the throat etc, really cleansing, it will clear head and throat congestion in one treatment, a peas sized piece used a a losenger (my spelling is bad today) anyway look for it.

Another is just regular ol wild mint used in tea great for everything, and black poplar buds, you know the yellow sticky one that get everywhere, put a couple in some vitamin E oil to thin it out and use it on cut bruises etc.

Some day we’ll chat!

Tom wrote: Hey Shirley, I could get some heat over this but… it’s for a great cause, our health.

There is a plant called acorus calamus, look it up in a text first, it has a very powerful effect on the throat etc, really cleansing, it will clear head and throat congestion in one treatment, a peas sized piece used a a losenger (my spelling is bad today) anyway look for it.

Another is just regular ol wild mint used in tea great for everything, and black poplar buds, you know the yellow sticky one that get everywhere, put a couple in some vitamin E oil to thin it out and use it on cut bruises etc.

Some day we’ll chat!

Tom wrote: Hey Shirley, I could get some heat over this but… it’s for a great cause, our health.

There is a plant called acorus calamus, look it up in a text first, it has a very powerful effect on the throat etc, really cleansing, it will clear head and throat congestion in one treatment, a peas sized piece used a a losenger (my spelling is bad today) anyway look for it.

Another is just regular ol wild mint used in tea great for everything, and black poplar buds, you know the yellow sticky one that get everywhere, put a couple in some vitamin E oil to thin it out and use it on cut bruises etc.

Some day we’ll chat!

Tom,

I did look up acorus calamus, here is what I found out:

Common Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus) is a plant from the Acoraceae family, Acorus genues. It is known by a variety of names, including cinnamon sedge, flagroot, gladdon, myrtle flag, myrtle grass, myrtle sedge, sweet cane, sweet myrtle, sweet root, sweet rush, and sweet sedge. Probably indigenous to India, Acorus calamus is now found across Europe, in southern Russia, northern Asia Minor, southern Siberia, China, Japan, Burma, Sri Lanka, and northern USA.

The fresh root can be poisonous. When using the plant medicinally, the isolated essential oil should not be used.The essential oil in the roots of some populations of this plant contains the compound asarone. This has tranquillising and antibiotic activity, but is also potentially toxic and carcinogenic. It seems that these compounds are found in the triploid form of the species (found in Asia) whilst the diploid form (found in N. America and Siberia) is free of the compounds. However, the root (but not the isolated essential oil) has been used in India for thousands of years without reports of cancer which suggests that using the whole herb is completely safe, though more research is needed.

It is used internally in the treatment of digestive complaints, bronchitis, sinusitis. Sweet flag is also used externally to treat skin eruptions, rheumatic pains and neuralgia.

Calamus and products derived from calamus (such as its oil) were banned in 1968 as food additives and medicines by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Calamus has powerful properties and has proven to be effective. As with many herbal/plant remedies, it is important to know what parts are good (and for what)and what are not. I a few good books with pictures, which makes finding them in nature easier. I also purchased a good book while I was in Cherokee, NC a couple of years ago called “Cherokee Plants,” their uses- a 400 year history.

Tom:Another is just regular ol wild mint used in tea great for everything, and black poplar buds, you know the yellow sticky one that get everywhere, put a couple in some vitamin E oil to thin it out and use it on cut bruises etc.

Mint tea is wonderful for tummy trouble, but the black poplar buds…I will have to check that one out…sounds interesting. I have an aloe in the house I use for cuts, bruises and burns.

Sounds like you have a good knowledge base on medicinals, I would like to pick your brain sometime, thanks Tom.:)

Shirley