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Cough Remedy
Take one lemon from the garden-house potted lemon tree.
Boil the lemon slowly for ten minutes.
Take two tablespoons of glycerine, stir the glycerine
and lemon juice well, then fill up the drinking glass
with honey. Give to those as needed because of
coughing spells. Or cut the nipple of a baby bottle
so a baby can suck down the mixture. For adult males,
three tablespoons of moonshine can be added.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Springhill Plantation,
kept by Florida Amanda Pearce before the Civil War.
(More at Informant profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001940CA
For Warts
Apply castor oil night and morning to the wart.
Rub the wart vigorously 20 times, exactly, so
that the oil is worked well into the skin.
Do this until the wart disappears.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda
Pearce, last mistress of Springhill Plantation,
before the Civil War. (More at Informant Profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number P686.1.20 BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
To Increase Milk Flow
Rub castor oil on the breasts to increase milk flow
after the birth of a baby.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda Pearce,
last mistress of Springhill Plantation, kept
before the Civil War. (More at Informant Profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
To Improve Hair Growth
If little children fail to show proper growth of hair
on the head, apply castor oil at night and let the child
sleep in a cap. Rub the oil into the scalp. Do so
thoroughly. In the morning, wash the head of the child
with a good soap. Repeat until hair begins to grow.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda Pearce,
last mistress of Springhill Plantation, kept before
the Civil War. (More at Informant profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses No hair, baldness BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
For Corns and Calluses
Apply castor oil to the corns and calluses of the feet.
Feet should be washed first in warm water.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda Pearce,
last mistress of Springhill Plantation, before the
Civil War. (More at Informant Profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
Cure
For bronchial infection, rub goose grease over the throat.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001960ca
SPRAIN CURE
TO CLEAR UP A SPRAIN OR SWELLING, MY AUNT'S GRANDMOTHER
WOULD TAKE POKE BERRIES AND ALUM AND BOIL IT. THEN THIS
MIXTURE WOULD BE PLACED INTO A POULTICE AND PLACED ON THE
SPRAIN OR SWELLING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001937CA
COLD CURE
FOR A COLD FLANNEL CLOTHES WOULD BE PLACED ON THE STOVE
AND ALLOWED TO BROWN. A TALLOW MADE FROM BEEF AND GOATS
WOULD BE MIXED WITH VASELINE, TURPENTINE, AND VICKS SALVE AND
THIS MIXTURE WOULD BE USED AS A RUBDOWN COMPOUND. THE
BROWNED FLANNEL SHEETS WOULD BE PLACED ON THE PERSON'S
CHEST AND THE PERSON WOULD BE WRAPPED TIGHTLY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001937CA
CONGESTION CURE 3
A CURE FOR CONGESTION TOLD TO ME BY MY AUNT, IS IN THE
FORM OF A TEA MADE FROM BOILED RHUBARB MIXED WITH SUGAR,
A BIT OF LEMON AND A DROP OF CAMPHORATED SPIRITS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Brew of leaf, bark, root BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001940CA
THE BEST CURE FOR A TOOTHACHE IS TO WRAP GRASS AROUND A PIECE
OF GINGER AND INSERT IN MOUTH, AROUND THE INFECTED TOOTH. LEAVE
IN FOR AN HOUR AND THE PAIN IS GONE.
Where learned: ORIENT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
For a sore throat, take a strip of raw bacon or salt pork, put
a little bit of pepper on it, put it on a handkerchief, and wrap
our throat with it. This would cure a sore throat.
James Callow comment: See Hand, NC, nos. 2188, 2190.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001910s
For headaches, grate a potato, put a lot of pepper on it, put
that on a handkerchief and tie it around your head. The potato
will turn black as the headache fades away.
James Callow comment: See Puckett, Ohio, no. 9897 - 9898.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001910s
For a sore throat, take a teaspoon on sugar and put a drop or
two of turpentine on it and swallow it.
James Callow comment: See Hand, North Carolina, no. 2204
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001910s
Brewed chamomile tea taken orally will purify your blood and
cure boils.
Submitter comment:
My twin sister was given this folk cure after having repeated
boils.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
Home Remedy for Swelling
To stop swelling in the extremities soak brown paper bag in
vinegar and wrap around the swollen part of the injury. This
will take the swelling down.
Submitter comment:
The informant did this during the summer when she experienced
swelling in both of her feet.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1951
Cure for High Blood Pressure
Squeeze a lemon, place the pulp and seeds in a glass of
water. Let all the lemon settle to the bottom of the glass and
then begin the sip. Garlic may be substituted for the lemon.
Submitter comment:
During the time of her late husband's funeral she was given a
glass of water with lemon in it and it helped reduce her blood
pressure.
James Callow comment:
For the use of garlic to prevent or cure hypertension see
Puckett, Ohio, nos. 10158-10161.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 08-00-1990
For helping a baby with colic, take a teaspoon of baby
formula or milk and blow cigarette smoke on the teaspoon of milk
and give it to the baby.
James Callow comment:
Cf. Puckett, Ohio, no. 2476: "To cure a breast-fed baby with
the colic, put some breast milk on a spoon, blow smoke from a
pipe on it, and feed it to the baby (M.M., F, 36, pract. nurse,
Negro, Cleveland, 1960); ... blow tobacco smoke on a teaspoonful
of mother's milk, etc. (Mrs. M.R., F, 74, farmw., Negro, New
Vienna, 1956)."
For other applications of tobacco smoke in the cure of
colic, see Puckett, Ohio, nos. 2477-2480, and Wayland Hand, North
Carolina, nos. 293-294, 1175. A powder of home-cured tobacco,
when made into a pill, has also been recommended for colic; see
Hand, idem,
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1951
Cure for worms in children
Take a sugar cube and place 9 drops of turpentine on the cube
and give it to the child.
James Callow comment:
Puckett, Ohio, no. 12743: "For worms, take a drop or two of
turpentine on some sugar (M.F., F, 70, store mgr., Welsh-Ir.-
Ger., Summit, 1956."
Vance Randolph, "Ozark Superstitions" (1947), p. 120:
"Physicians in the Ozark towns have remarked upon the practice of
giving turpentine as a worm medicine. Turpentine is still
administered by many yarb doctors and granny-women, large doses
being given to small children. The stuff may eliminate the
worms, but it seems to be bad for the children's kidneys. A lot
of little children in the Ozarks die of nephritis, and the M.D.'s
say that neph
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine Favorites BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1951
Remedy for fever from a cold
In order to get the cold or flu from the body, take ginger
root, boil it and make a tea and sip on it for relief of fever.
Submitter comment:
I was working with the nurse for only one day. I had a bad
cold and she told me about this remedy. I have no data on her as
I only worked with her one day, but she did tell me she was from
Jamaica.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
Remedy for cold or flu
Place camphorated oil in the fontella (soft spot on baby's
head) and on the bottom of the feet of the baby to get rid of any
fever in the body.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): Fontanel
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face BELIEF -- Body part Senses Feet, toes, toenails BELIEF -- Plant |