Getting beat for being bad. It was a remedy my mom used with frequency when we were being asses.

This is what I remember. Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil.

I remember the fish over the man's shoulder and the brown bottle kept in the refrigerator.

It tasted as bad as the label and bottle looked. I don't know what it was supposed to treat.

Another Vicks VapoRub victim here.

castoria,, hated that stuff,


in addition to mecurochrome,
methiolade, did not sting as bad,

grandparents ran a dairy farm, so it if was good enough for the cows,,,

meaning get scratched up and you got Gential Violet, or a big blue jar of some salve got smeared on it,


also, stumped toe or bruises soaked in epsom salts or some hot water with turpentine in it,

always followed by the phrase, it will heal before you get married,,,

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This would be in every Asian house

Yep, merthiolate. That stuff burned like a mother and left an orange stain. It worked though. Not once did I have an infected cut, scratch, or scrape.

A teaspoon of minced garlic chased with a teaspoon of honey for colds.

Vick's of course.

I didn't, but my little brother did. He was sick with some sort of infectious disease. My uncle was doing some voodoo magic, by holding a torch walking and chanting some shit around my mom, who was holding my bro. Needless to say, it didn't work. He ended up dying eventually in the hospital. I was too young to know exactly what it was, but the translation I got from my father was something like DIC (Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation). DIC is extremely bad actor, even with current medical advances.

Bar of soap in the mouth to prevent/inhibit cursing.

It didn't work, but everything tasted spicy for a day or two after.

Rum and gunpowder. Granny's cure for everything. Explains a lot, actually....

I was subjected to pretty much all the above. In later years my mom moved from Merthiolate to Hydrogen Peroxide as an antiseptic (no more stains).

Coca-Cola was actually first formulated to be a stomach remedy and the syrup (which did contain cocaine) was mixed with tap water to be drunk. It was an accident that carbonated water was used once and the drink became popular. Pepsi-Cola was also developed as a stomach remedy, and contained Pepsin (hence the name).

Having grown up in Detroit, Michigan, my mom's remedy for an upset stomach was room-temperature Vernor's Ginger Ale--it still works wonders.

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Originally posted by davetruong:
This would be in every Asian house

Eagle Brand Medicated Oil.... what wouldn't it be used for?

Crest toothpaste on wasp stings. And for skin problems, Grandpa was a Witch Hazel enthusiast. If Witch Hazel didn't work, carbolated Vaseline might.

For sore throat, Vicks Vapo Rub on your throat, then an old wool sock was safety pinned around your neck.

Mom said that was a big improvement over the asafetida bag he had her wear around her neck.

My Mother completely traumatized me regarding Doctors.

I was the guinea pig for a bunch of sadistic mofos that never told her that what she was doing was WRONG.

My dentist till today reminds me of HIM. I was terrorized when I watched the movie. I brought back MEMORIES!!!



She got rid of my (kids) dentist after hearing he had one little boy die on him. That wasn't really enough. She started asking herself some questions after hearing a mother (like her) ask for a series of 8 appointments. Her 6 year old appeared to have 32 cavities. Likely none of his teeth was permanent...

I was also blessed with warts as a young boy. Mother decided to remove my then 8 warts by having them burned. Still remember my hand fingers smelling like sausages and being blotted and charred. Lucky me, that got me 16 warts instead of the original 8. We gave the burned sausage treatment another opportunity... Who would pass on the opportunity of sporting 32 warts covering his hands? There's no two's without threes, right? This time, my mother took the opportunity to have one wart she had removed. Just like his little boy. She passed out right away. That was the last of my finger barbecue expeditions. The warts went away by themselves a short while ago after that. I still have the burned scars.

Last but not least, my sister and I suffered from clogged noses, don't know the proper English term. Mother treated us with silver nitrate(?) drops. Those things are painful and she used that to burn my warts at one time, with no results but the grief they caused. Not the stuff you want up your nose. Mother used to chase desperate us for a while every time the drops came up. We put a good fight when cornered.
The drops magically dissappeared one day after she tried them on herself.

By then, I had acquired absolute panic of Doctors. To this day.

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Enima........

Which reminds me, I need to reschedule my weekly therapy session with my shrink.

Vick’s, paragoric, mercurochrome, peroxide, bag balm, all of those I remember well. I also sneezed a lot with what I’d consider allergies now but I was given daily doses of a green liquid called Novahistine. From about 6 to 13 years old is a fog. That shit would knock me on my ass.

As a kid in the 1960s mercurochrome and merthiolate were what went on cuts, scrapes, punctures, amputations, etc. Since mercurochrome didn’t sting most kids took that option but merthiolate was what “adults” used. When you invariably hurt yourself at the neighbors you always asked for merthiolate so they wouldn’t mistake you for a “little kid”. Never got infections in my wounds with that stuff, it did work and the stain was just bragging rights . I kept and used merthiolate right up into the late 80s until stuff like Neosporin got popular.

Burns got covered with butter sticks from the fridge.

Black eyes got a frozen steak.

Shake my head.

My Grandmother would use the juice of a plant she called wart weed on warts and it would get rid of them,if you applied the juice for a couple of weeks.

When I was grown I searched the internet and found out the plant is called Purslane.

Purlane has more omega 3 fatty acids than any other plant,and it is edible. You can eat it raw or put it in stir fry. I used to grow it in my vegetable garden.

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Pepto Bismol was the standard for an upset stomach.

Made me puke, every time. As a kid, I thought it's purpose was to speed up the process since it was going to happen anyway.