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TO CURE HICCUPS, BEND FORWARD AT THE WAIST AND DRINK A GLASS
OF WATER FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE GLASS. HOLD YOUR
BREATH AND DRINK THE ENTIRE GLASS.
Submitter comment:
EXCELLENT CURE!
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MONTANA
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; CURE ; DRINK ; HICCUPS ; Homeopathy ; WATER
James Callow Keyword(s): DIRECTION ; POSITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
THE RUBBING OF MUD ON A BEE STING WILL TAKE THE
PAIN OUT AND IT WILL ALSO REDUCE THE SWELLING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1976
WHEN YOU ARE HOT ON A HOT SUMMER DAY AND THERE ISN'T A
POOL AROUND, YOU CAN SOAK YOUR FEET IN COLD WATER AND IT
WILL COOL YOUR BODY.
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001980S
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
FEVER RELIEF
IN ORDER TO BRING DOWN A PERSON'S FEVER WHEN IT WAS HIGH,
THE PERSON WAS BATHED IN A TUB THAT HAD A MIXTURE OF
WATER AND BAKING SODA IN IT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
A good cure or remedy for arthritis is for the victim to wear
a copper bracelet or necklace to offset the symptoms.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
This is a cure my sister was telling me her doctor did to her.
When you have ringworm you take off your wedding band, it has
to be gold, and have someone press it firmly down in the
infected area where the ringworm shows up. Within a few days
it will clear up.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): homeopathic (ring for ringworm)
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
Cure for a sore throat
When you have a sore throat, gargle with warm salt water three
times a day and right before you go to bed. Your sore throat
should be gone the next day.
Submitter comment:
Eric learned this from his mother when he was younger and
always got sick.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001970S
Cure for the hiccups
Drink a glass of water and turn upside down. Your hiccups will
be cured. If by some chance that does not work, hold your breath
for 15 seconds.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number P686.1.15 BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001970S
Cure for a headache
If you have a headache, put cold water on your wrists and it
should disappear.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
James Callow Keyword(s): HIDDEN CONNECTION
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face BELIEF -- Body part Senses Upper body, arms, neck BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001970S
Strange Cure
As a small child, I was a frequent sufferer of nose bleeds. While
staying with my grandmother, my nose began to bleed, and she
suggested a strange cure she had learned as a child. She placed a
large spoon in the freezer, and when it was cold, she placed it on
the back of my neck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
Keyword(s): Silverware
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001980CA
It was believed that when an infant had a head cold, you would
mix vaseline and nutmeg together and place it in the mole {hole?}
of the infant's head, because it was soft and the head had not
closed completely. So the home remedy could work better and get
the baby well faster.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; RIVER ROUGE
James Callow Keyword(s): fallen fontanel
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
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
To cure a grown-out navel on a newborn baby, take a big button,
like an overcoat button, and tie a band around it, and tie it over
the navel.
James Callow comment: See Puckett, Ohio, nos. 1490, 2663.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001910s
A remedy or treatment that I learned at my parent's cottage
in Hillsdale, Michigan is that one can remove a leach that is
stuck to his leg or other body part by pouring salt right over
the leach. Doing this will simply cause the leach to fall off
without trying to pull it off.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HILLSDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
To cure ringworm on children take some chewing tobacco and
mix with petroleum jelly and place this on the rash. It should
be approximately one week before any results are noticeable.
Submitter comment:
Informant states that she tried this on her daughter who
contacted ringworm from playing in the sand.
James Callow comment:
Puckett, Ohio recommends curing ringworm with "strong tobacco
leaves" (no. 11126), "saliva from a man smoking a cigar" (11127),
and "nicotine juice from a pipe" (11128), but with no admixture
of vaseline or any other ingredient.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Laurel
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Mineral |
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
When stepping on a nail or any metal object, tape any of the
following to the foot: a penny, a slice of potato, or a piece of
salt poor, to draw out any infection that may set up in the
foot.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): Salt pork
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Medicine
This homemade medicine was given to the informant when she
was a little girl and she gave it to her seven children and they
are giving it to their children. Her mother would combine
garlic, lemon, rum, honey and boiling water. She said, it always
works for the worst of colds.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 02-07-1992