Comments on: Top 10 Home Remedies

By: Moss

Moss — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:21:15 +0000

http://pestcontrolnewmarket.com/images/wasp.jpg
Actually, this is a wasp.
Obviously you have never heard the term “wasp-waisted.”

By: crystal

crystal — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:36:42 +0000

This sounds very gross but in high school I had a biology teacher who told us that ear wax worked good on fever blisters and sore throats. If you stick your finger in your ear and rub it on the sore spot in your throat or to the cold sore it will heal it in no time!!

By: BreK

BreK — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:03:22 +0000

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By: DorianGray

DorianGray — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:50:29 +0000

for sore throat you can also drink ginger brew. really great.

By: Pangea

Pangea — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:19:12 +0000

OMG! I have never seen anyone even come close to what *always* works for me with hiccups. But now you have! My remedy (which never ever fails): Get a timing on the hiccups, as they are usually somewhat regular. With about 10 seconds to go before a hiccup is due, take a deep breath and hold it, but push out, straining a bit, like having a bowel movement. Do this *well through* the time you would have had your next hiccup. You should be pushing hard enough that you do not feel the hiccup break through. Then breathe. The hiccup is gone for me 90% of the time. The other 10%? Just repeat the exercise. It will be gone.

By: lotus

lotus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:57:10 +0000

I also see that someone has recommended toothpaste. Mint is an irritant, especially the overpowering mint of toothpaste, and could actually worsen the swelling of an already-irritated burn. A good thing to put on burns, as long as they are not infected, is exactly what a doctor would prescribe: Hydrocortisone cream. You can get it over the counter, and it is guaranteed to help the healing process as it is a steroid, and also reduce inflammation.

By: Pangea

Pangea — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:56:28 +0000

As an emergency nurse, I am *horrified* by the suggestion to put minty toothpast on a burn. How awful! And painful. And dangerous. Other remedies that include milk or butter or oil are equally frightening. As stated by Muttley and lotus, the burn needs to cool, not cook.

I'll add another vote for caffeine to treat headaches. Many (not all) headaches are caused by dilation of the blood vessels in the head. Caffeine contricts blood vessels, hence, relieving that type of headache. You will see caffeine as an ingredient in OTC products directed at headache relief. And just ask any caffeine junky (like me!) what happens when they miss their morning coffee. Ouch!

My mother says that her earaches were treating by her mother with "wicking." Grandma would drip oil into the painful ear, then hold a piece of wicking string into the ear and light it. Yes, with a flame (gasp!). Supposedly, the oil would wick up the string as it burned pulling the infection along with it.

Personally, I'm horrified by that suggestion as well. My mother swears it worked though. I imagine, however, that they were just a hardier bunch of people back in those days.

By: lotus

lotus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:52:25 +0000

Most of the things on this list are terribly, terribly wrong. A few of them will actually worsen infections, such as applying milk to a burn. Milk will also do absolutely nothing for a cold sore – get some abbreva, and read up on how it works to block the virus from entering a cell. Baking soda does nothing for bee stings, as the poison is in your skin at that point and nothing you put on it will help, except ice, which will lessen the swelling, and taking an antihistamine to stop the reaction. The pressure points thing for headaches is ridiculous and I challenge anyone sane and not soft minded to try it and see for yourself. When you’re in the midst of a bad one the only thing that helps is ibuprophen and ice. That cure for boils is laughable. Antibiotic ointment or peroxide cream, as well as having the boil lanced by a doctor with sterile equipment, will help a boil heal quickly, as opposed to all the crap you suggest putting on it which is more likely to help spread an infection than cure one. Heat can definitely help ease an earache, but try a sock filled with rice, mocrowave for thirty seconds or until hot enough that you can still stand it, and hold in over your ear or the glands below it – basically a cheap version of the magic bag. The plate is just silly. And dear god, please, please do not put preparation H on a burn. Preparation H shrinks swollen blood vessels, which is why it is used for hemmorhoids, and reduces fluid buildup. Unfortunately, those are the two things that would be healing your skin, if you hadn’t stopped the process by putting an irritating medication on it for a purpose it was not meant for. Also, milk; again, will cause an infection, not heal it.

If you think any of this is incorrect, talk to a doctor with recent medical training, don’t read a do-it-your-self, grandma’s home remidies book. There’s a reason they call it “alternative” medicine. If it worked, it would just be called “medicine”.

By: cg26

cg26 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:08:29 +0000

Great cure for hiccups. Take a deep breath and hold it. Then attempt to swallow. Works great.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:59:16 +0000

The best thing I have ever found for minore burns and insect bites is and
Alovera plant. Just cut off a tip of a stem and squeez the juice onto the burn.
Instent relief. Also for insect bites. I always keep an Alovera plant in my home.