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In this episode, Robb and Tina discuss various home remedies for common ailments. They share personal experiences and family traditions related to using natural remedies. The conversation covers remedies such as mint tea for stomach issues, honey for coughs, turmeric for inflammation, and ginger for nausea. They also explore unconventional remedies like tobacco for bee stings and licorice for calluses. The episode concludes with a discussion on the use of lavender for sleep problems. In this conversation, Tina and Robb discuss various home remedies for common ailments. They cover remedies for burns and skin issues, including aloe vera and witch hazel. They also discuss remedies for warts, wounds, and cuts, such as duct tape and iodine. Other remedies mentioned include baking soda for teeth whitening, pickle juice for leg cramps, and garlic for athlete's foot. The conversation highlights the effectiveness of these home remedies and the importance of passing down traditional knowledge.

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And welcome to another show of Don't Get This Twisted. I am Rob along with my cohost as always, Tina. How you doing, Tina?

I'm tired today Rob how you doing? Right it's Sunday evening here and it's been a long day.

Oh, I'm about the same tired, you know.

Weekends seem to just go by no matter what. Like they just go by so fast. I don't care if it's a two day weekend or a four day holiday. They go by like in a snap of a finger and they suck. Yeah, so fun times, but what do you do?

they do.

Mm-hmm. That they do.

So most people have tomorrow off. Do you have tomorrow off?

Uh, no, I don't have tomorrow off, but that's because we are offered it off. But I would rather work because if you don't work, I get an extra floating holiday that I can take whenever I want. I would rather do that because then I'll.

Uh.

Get it.

I'll probably, you know, use them in, because I already get two every year, so I'll have three and I think I'll just use them all in a row, like a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So I'll take, so I'll get like five days off, but I'll use those. I'm planning a trip to Disneyland. So yeah, I wanna go to Disneyland, so, and I'm just waiting for my friend to tell me that they can go, so.

Mm-hmm.

There you go.

Are you?

Just a matter of when, but I hope February at some point. I don't want it to be super duper cold, but I definitely don't want it to be hot. Because Disneyland hot is the fucking worst. It's so bad. Mm-hmm.

Nice.

Yeah, it's horrible. Yeah, I'm gonna be into well In a couple weeks. I'm gonna be going to the virgin islands and I can't wait never been and We just did it on the spur of the moment and now we're gonna go so I'm excited I haven't been to disneyland though since my daughter was in like the fourth grade. That's been a minute

Good to you.

Yeah, a little while.

Yeah, so I should probably do that at some point too, just because things have changed.

Exactly. No, I get you. I think that now that, you know, you're either don't have children in the house or they're so much older that you don't have to really worry about that kind of thing. It's kind of nice to just gallivant off somewhere. Yeah, I want to go. I have a couple of places that I want to go. I want to go.

Mm-hmm.

Right?

Yeah.

visit Tennessee and I want to visit another city in North Carolina just to kind of see if it's where my future may lead so we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. It has to be a place where I where my company has a place though because I don't want to just start over. I want to be able to have a job when I go someplace so we'll see. Yeah we'll see.

Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

Interesting.

Right.

Nice.

So we were talking off the air before we came in here and we are in the sickie season. So and you know with all the goopily gockily that goes around. I think a lot of people like to either like or have a lot of old school home remedies and I think we come from the generation of

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

parents who had a lot of them. I looked up some home remedies just for shits and giggles on the old Google and it took me to WebMD and these were like home remedies, what works with a question mark? And you can check out the webpage that'll be in our show notes. A lot of these I think are pretty common. Like I'll go over them just and I'm.

Mm-hmm.

speed reading just so we can get to like ones that you actually said that your family uses and knows of. But like mint, peppermint, been used. Peppermint oil helps with irritable bowel syndrome, bloating, diarrhea, constipation. I know that I've heard that it'll help settle your stomach. Like

Hehehehe

Mm-hmm.

My grandmother used to have mint that grew in a crack in her driveway, and it grew really well. And she'd say, go out and pick me some mint, and she would make us mint tea when we were menstruating or when we were sick to the stomach. And that actually really does work, or did in my experience. I still to this day keep mint tea around. I don't pick it out of a crack in the driveway, but I do.

Hehehehe

I do keep it at the house.

Right, right. Honey, honey natural sweetener works well for a cough. Just like over the counters. And it's funny, I wish I would have listened a little bit better. I'd have to look at the text message. Maybe my friend down the street, she got ill. She ended up getting COVID actually and her cough was really bad. Well, I talked to her one day and she said that she was making homemade cough syrup.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And I think it had that in it, onion and something else. But I thought it was kind of interesting. I was like, homemade cup, probably turmeric. That's in all kinds, and that's actually on this list as well.

and turmeric.

Yeah.

Yeah, um honey nothing lives in honey and honey actually doesn't go bad if it's just honey in its natural state they found it back when they were embalming the um uh The like tootin What was his name? Egypt. Yes during those days When they were they were embalming people they put honey in because honey lasted forever and they found honey that had been

Mm-hmm.

Ah, like Egypt.

put in a tomb for hundreds of years and it was still good. It's kind of crazy.

Yeah, a little glass jar action. Well, probably not even glass, probably pottery in those days. And then here's your next one on the list is turmeric. Spice is hyped to be able to variety of conditions, arthritis to a fatty liver. I know see other claims such as healing ulcers, helping skin rashes, but don't overdo it.

I don't even know.

Tumor ink.

Mm.

Obviously with anything that we're talking about don't overdo it. You should probably look it says high doses can cause digestive problems so I was Yeah, I would probably say with this one you should probably stick to the pills If you're taking it for you know, because then they're measured out instead of you know taking your own That have it in it, correct

Then you'll need the mint.

Or find foods that you could eat that have turmeric in it. You know, you can make meals that have turmeric. That's probably the best approach.

I agree. Oh, and here's one that's, I think, quite common, and I've actually used ginger. It's really good in tea.

Ginger is supposed to be really good for your prostate.

Oh, well, that's good. I guess I should stick a piece of garlic up my ass. It says, it's been used for a thousand years in Asian medicines to treat stomach aches, diarrhea, and nausea. Studies show that it works for nausea and vomiting. There's evidence that it may help menstrual cramps.

Yeah.

Heheheheheheh Yo

We take it when we go on a boat.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's Yeah, some people get tummy trouble heartburn diarrhea and gas because of it So you might want to be careful with it. I actually cut up fresh Ginger and I put it in tea and let it sit in the tea and then obviously take it out but it's uh, it's really good and Here's one for you that's a good home remedy sex

It's good for motion sickness.

Mm-hmm.

Good stuff.

Hey, who knew? It could get rid of a headache, I know that, I've done that.

Turns out that sex, yeah, I think a lot of people. No more, this is how it reads, it's pretty funny. No more not tonight, dear. It turns out sex can help ease pain when you have certain kinds of headaches, especially in migraines. Go figure. It's been shown to help heart health, ease stress and boost mental alertness.

Hehehehe

It also makes you live longer from what studies are saying.

Yeah, I mean it's kind of funny that if you have a migraine sex is good for you So no more headaches. You can't say that I have a headache

Mm-hmm.

It actually does run a headache out of you. I've done it several times and it works.

And then obviously heart health. I think that that's, uh, you know, the blood is a Russian. Um, let's go here. Green tea. This one I think is quite common and been used probably for a thousand years in some cultures, uh, blah, blah. Has anxia, uh, antioxidants in it.

Mm-hmm

Protect your cells from damage, helps fight disease. It may lower the odds of heart disease. Certain kinds of cancer, like skin, breast, lung, and colon. That's always good. Garlic. So eat more garlic. Certain types of cancer, it helps with that. May lower blood cholesterol, blood pressure. I like garlic, garlic's good.

Mmm.

Me too.

I did garlic. Not in like massive amounts, but I do like, it's definitely a flavor booster. I mean you put garlic in something and it ramps it up for sure. Or a really good garlic bread.

Mm-hmm.

Absolutely.

Chicken soup. I think this is like the old-school grandma remedy Could be good for a cold Truly good chicken soup is just good I don't care how you slice or dice it on a cold evening or a cold afternoon a really good

Mm-hmm.

bowl of chicken soup. I got a recipe from my friend down the road that I actually got in trouble for at one point, which is a whole other story. But she gave me like the base of her chicken soup and then I kind of finagled with it here and there and added stuff and I would, I'll make my own chicken breasts and then I'll cut like huge chunks of chicken. Like it's not like, you know, the old school Campbell's where you got like

Mm-hmm.

little tiny bits.

Yeah, a little dot. Mine are probably like one inch square, like big pieces of chicken or really long pieces, but there's nothing like that. A neti pot, which I don't know what that is, but we're gonna talk about it.

Mm-hmm

And neti pot is something that you put, there's these little packets that you could put in the water and then you stick the neti pot in your nose as you tilt your head to the side and it runs from, the water runs in one side and out the other.

Mm-hmm.

That's exactly what I was just gonna say because that's a, you've pretty much knocked it out. It's salt in warm water. It says you have to practice a little to get the hang of it. Can ease allergies, yes, allergy and cold symptoms is what it helps.

Yeah. Yep.

Right, you just don't swallow.

Mm-hmm.

And it makes a lot of gunk come out of your the back of your throat and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, I know what this is now. I remember someone telling me about this. I know that I don't know if you've ever seen the little machine that you stick on your nose and it does the exact same thing.

No, when I had it done I was sick and I was visiting my cousin Karen in Washington and she told me I was going to do it and then when she handed me the pot it looked like a penis head on the end of it and I was like, what the hell you want me to stick this up my nose and do what? But it did work. That was a place I never had a penis before. Huh?

Was it a neti pot or was it that little machine? Was it a neti pot or was it an actual that little machine? Okay, because they have this one where it has like these two little, I don't know, rubber things and it has water on the top of it and water on the bottom. And you stick it on there and you press a button and it's done with the machine and it actually shoots it through. And it gathers the bad water on the bottom and then you throw it out.

It was a nutty pot, yeah.

Huh.

No, this you did over a sink.

Yeah. I mean, it looks pretty cool. I don't know if it would work, but I should probably get one because I have lots of nasal issues because my nose has been broken.

It did work. It did help. I don't know if it worked, but it helped. Because when you get to a certain level of stuffed-up-ness, you need something.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me the old school baby ball.

Right? You need- at that point you don't care what it is, you just need help. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, the old baby ball was crazy. I remember when my kid was sick as an infant man, and you're just sucking snot out of their nose with that thing, brutal.

Yeah, I don't know about those because how do you get all the snot back out? Like, that to me seemed a little, um, I used them, but it always seemed like I wanted to throw away and go buy another one because it was unsanitary.

We would, I would run, I would boil water on the pot and I would put boiling water through it. Cause boil, ooh, boiling water is gnarly. That shit is, that shit will clean anything. Here's the next one. This one I think is very common as well, cinnamon. Let's see.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

Yeah. I get you, but, you know.

Mm-hmm.

Cinnamon lowers your blood sugar and it's also very good for stomach your stomach It's a great tea

Your blood sugar. Mm-hmm.

Look at you.

Mm-hmm. It says just be careful, because cinnamon extracts can be bad for your liver in large doses. So basically, make sure you're not doing a ton. I think you can do up to like, I wanna say more than a teaspoon a day. Like you can do a pretty, I'll mix it in with my tea, just a little bit, because I also don't wanna, because cinnamon is overpowering as all hell.

Yeah.

Right?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it is.

So like you don't have to use a lot. You can put a little bit in it.

No. But if you if you make cinnamon tea and it's just cinnamon, I don't know, I kind of like that. My mom used to make that. We drink a lot of it because of her.

Mm-hmm.

was good stuff.

Mm-hmm. Here's one that I wish I could do, but I can't anymore because I don't have one. A hot bath. Obviously it's good for muscles, bones, tendons, back pain, joint pain. I so miss, I miss having a bathtub. I hate not having a bathtub, even though I don't fit well in them because I'm just a big dude.

Mmm.

just makes you happy and like completely chilled out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I still, I will lay, I'll lay with my legs out of them and then move and then put my legs only in them and move and I'll just continue to move. And I've been in a tub where I've ran the water two or three times through it, like redone it and redone it again. I enjoy it. And if I can find a big tub, like a jacuzzi tub, that's the greatest.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Here we go. Ice back, I don't think we really need to talk about that home remedy. I think that's quite common. I like to make plastic bags with both rubbing alcohol and water.

Mm-mm. Common.

Mm-hmm.

because rubbing alcohol doesn't freeze. So it won't freeze all the way and you get more of like a gel consistency and you can wrap it around things much better. And being a pro wrestler for so long, I was always wrapping some kind of ice pack around some part of my body that needed it.

Mm-hmm

Right.

So when I was in Girl Scouts, one of my badges was first aid. And I had to make a couple of those things. So that's been around for a long time.

Yeah, it's a great, I actually prefer it. So what I ended up doing is something on Amazon. My neck was hurting really bad for some reason. So I bought these, I think they're gel packs, they're some kind of things that won't freeze the whole way. But they're shaped like your neck, and you can like put them around your neck. But it's the same kind of, you know, idea. Petroleum jelly.

Mm-hmm.

You know, in my house growing up, there happened to be always some petroleum jelly in my house. I'm assuming that it works. It says for moisture and prevent chapping, keep your skin dry. So, that.

And see, the funny thing is, is petroleum jelly does not allow your skin to breathe. So to me that kind of doesn't make sense to me why it would be, why they say it would be moisturizing and yet your body can't absorb it. I don't know.

Yeah, it does say that it protects your baby's bottom from diaper rash. So.

We used to use it for diaper rash when there wasn't any Desitin.

So what I think it does is it keeps, it's like a protective layer, yeah. So obviously if you end up crapping your drawers and you put some of that on there, you end up keeping it from there. This one I've heard but I've never done it, ear candling. Says this is dangerous. Don't do it.

barrier.

I'm sorry.

Mm-hmm.

Our family used to do that to us too.

Yeah, I know a bunch of people, but it does say you need to be careful because you can get burns and that it's just, it's not for sure that it works.

Yeah.

funny thing is though when I've had it done and I used to have problems with my ears when I was younger they would do that and it would make my ear pop you'd be like congested and just everything was you know you couldn't hear because you were so congested and then they do that to my ear and then all of a sudden it would go and I could hear again and everything was right so I don't

Great.

know that they I don't know why that happens what works with them but I do know it does work.

So what do you have? Because you say that this is something that you actually do in your home.

Yeah, so, um, there's a lot of things the mint tea was right on top of the list because that one was an old-time favorite Um, my grandfather no matter what you were sick with would stick vicks Like on your chest on your mouth in your mouth. Like I guess he was pretty wicked with it back in the day. But um, On the bottom of your feet. So if you were sick, you got just slathered in vicks and um

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know, it kind of made it so you could breathe because it's like a really strong eucalyptus but he never put it in my mouth by that time. They're like, don't you dare put it in her mouth. But yeah, he used a lot of Vicks.

I grew up with that, my mom putting it on my chest. And then even, oh yeah.

Yeah. And you have to stay covered up because it opens your pores and you could get, you could catch a really big chill, apparently.

and it would come right up under, like from your shirt up to your nose and it would, I always remember it kind of opening up my nasal cavities when I...

Yeah, it made you made your nose leak and you had snot all over yourself. Yeah. Good times. So when I was 18, um, I went camping and it was in the spring around my birthday, around Easter time. And, um, I was walking in a stream and I guess the poison oak had just.

gone into like the springtime phase where there was pollen on top of the water. So when I walked in the water I had um poison oak from my waist all the way down to my feet and I was so swollen and purpley red and just miserable couldn't it was in my private parts oh it was disgusting. There was nothing the doctor gave me stuff to soak in then there was these salves that he gave me

Right?

Oh my god.

and my mom's best friend who always seemed to save me. She was always the one that like came to my rescue, still is. She was talking to her mom and her mom was from another state back East. And her mom said, take rhubarb and blend it up with a little bit of water and put it on her skin and just leave it there. And that'll take away the poison oak. Now,

The scar that I had from the poison oak lasted for a few years. I was quite red and it didn't go back right away and my skin's pretty light. So that didn't go away, but the burn and the itch and the swelling and the sick feeling that you got with it definitely went away after that. It alleviated the yucky feelings that were going on because I was freaking miserable. Like...

Mm-hmm.

You don't need anything like that in your private parts or any part of your body, back of your knees, like in between your everything. Yeah. Not fun. Um, tobacco on a bee sting. Um, when we're out camping and somebody gets stung with a bee, they pull out the, the little bee stinger and then they chew up some tobacco and stick it on the, on the, the part where the bee stung.

Yeah, no, I'm good.

Mm-hmm.

the person and it would it would take away the sting. Never did I use that. I thought it was kind of gross. Somebody was chewing on tobacco and then sticking it on my skin. But I normally don't get stung by bees either. So but my family always did that.

Mm-hmm.

I'm reading right here about that. It also says you can use toothpaste as well. Very, but I just typed in old school remedies because I want to see what's going to come up that you actually do and what's on here. So there's the first one, tobacco wannabe sting.

Yeah.

remedies.

Yeah.

Also, if you have a headache, willow bark, you take a piece of willow bark and you chew on it, it has medicinal properties of aspirin in it. And so also when we'd be out camping or whatever, if somebody had a headache and we didn't have any Tylenol or anything, they would go and take a switch of the bark, or a switch of the tree.

and then just cut a little piece of it, stick it in your mouth and chew on it.

Wow. That I never heard. Very interesting.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, it, I don't for, well, that's a native, that one for sure is a native thing. I don't, you know, there's a lot of others. Um, there was one and I keep forgetting it, but it'll come back. Um, weed marijuana in rubbing alcohol, like a hundred proof or 99 proof and also avocado seeds do the same thing. It, it.

Mm-hmm.

you leave it in the alcohol for months in like a dark closet. And then when you take it out, all the medicinal properties have been leached out of the avocado seed and the weed. My dad puts them together. I never did that. I always just did it with the marijuana, but, um, it helps with like arthritis and joints and, um, muscles. It's not a pain reliever. Like you're not going to instantly feel better.

But it, over time, you start to feel better and you just feel like your body can move better. But everybody that I give that stuff to is like, what the heck is that? Cause it works. We don't have these around here, but when I went back East, my daughter was walking in the grass at her grandmother's house and she got chiggers.

didn't know what the hell those were, just had this huge, she had this rash around her ankles and she was crying and she's like, mom, just rub it, make it feel better. Oh my God, it's horrible. And I was like, what the hell is this? And I didn't know. And then my aunt, when I got here, she said, oh, she's got chiggers, take clear nail polish and cover up the rash that she's having because they're little tiny bugs that burrow in the skin and they burn, their excrements burn you. So.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, I'm actually looking at pictures. That's absolutely disgusting.

Yeah, so she had it. I didn't know what it was. You know, I spent a whole six hours on a plane ride just putting lotion and rubbing her ankles because I didn't know what to do for her. But I guess the lotion was kind of acting the same way as the nail polish. What is kind of starving. They can't breathe. You know, they're starving them out. Um, but yeah, I spent the whole six hour flight taking care of her. And then my aunt said, oh yeah, she needs nail polish. I'm not kidding. That took it away.

It killed the bugs and then the bugs were gone and that's kind of a creepy thing because you can't even really see them

No, they're super duper tiny. If you've never, but the bites aren't.

Yeah, and we don't have them here in California. So I was like, what the hell's a chigger?

Mm-hmm. It's probably because of The weather here, you know what I mean they probably can't Yeah, but Humidity man. Here's one for you that I think is quite common and we grew up for sure Doing this salt water for sore throats Mm-hmm

Thank God. But I have Florida though. Florida gets hot. It must be the humidity or something. Yeah.

Yeah, gargle with saltwater. Also, if your tooth is sore, that was another one. But for babies, they used to put whiskey on baby's gums when they were teething. Yeah, the last time we let my dad do that, my dad was like kind of out of it watching the football game. My mom says, here, hold the baby. He holds the baby and then she goes, here, give this to the baby and hands him a little capful of whiskey.

Yeah, I mean, it's...

Oh.

He dipped the baby forward gave him a shot the baby drank it and we were like wait You were supposed to rub that on his gums. He was like Wait, what if I you told me to give it to him? I don't know what it was yeah, we don't let dad hold the babies without having better instruction for him, but But the baby was great for like six hours slept like a baby No more pain. Well, did it work? Did it not I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm sure.

tomato tomato.

Here's one for you that, have you ever heard this one? Tea bags for puffy eyes.

Yes. And also preparation H.

I, oh, that one I've definitely heard. That's like a model thing. A lot of models do that because obviously it's, you're taking down some kind of inflammation.

Yeah, yes it is.

So back in the late 80s, early 90s, I was modeling for a company of women that were bigger women. And we used to do like fashion shows in malls and stuff like that, did some print work for like catalogs. But what I did mostly was the...

was fit modeling. You go in because you're the size that they need and you're the right measurements and then they put the clothes on you and they fit them correctly. And I worked with a lot of different models for a lot of different sizes and they all talked about the preparation age. I have tried it. I didn't really notice a difference but maybe I didn't need it. I don't know.

Right. I have several friends who swear by it. So whether it works or not, I mean, who knows for sure, but you know, who knows. How about this one? White vinegar for mosquito bites. So,

I've heard that, I don't know if it works though.

Yeah, it says you can make a paste from white vinegar, baking soda, and a meat tenderizer. Yeah, for a stronger itch relief. I've never, I've never tried that. I mean, mosquitoes love me, so I should probably, I should try it. Yeah, because they, I mean, and when I mean love me, they love me in the summertime.

Interesting.

Try something.

Yeah.

would be a good thing to do.

Yeah, yeah. I've heard this one and it says that this one is probably true. Prunes for constipation.

Oh, I got to tell you an eight ounce glass of prune juice when you're having problems you right before you go to bed, take it in the morning. You will be like, you will be thanking me. Yeah.

and clean the out. Oh, there you go. I've heard this one oatmeal for dry skin.

I've never tried that.

I've heard about it though, you basically, you know, yeah, I mean it's pretty common like oatmeal soaps. Those are pretty common. What is this? Lemons for earaches. Lemons. Squeeze lemon juice onto a Q-tip, then let it rest in your ear for a few minutes.

An oatmeal bath. Yeah.

Mm-hmm

I've heard that. I've never tried. Never did we do that.

balances your ears natural pH levels, giving quick pain relief. That's the first one, never heard that one. Here's one, licorice for calluses and corns. And they don't mean the kind that you eat, the actual, you have to get licorice powder. It's not what we eat, the actual bark.

Never heard that.

What?

that says you make a paste from licorice powder and petroleum jelly. It's good, and then you put it on calluses and corns. Softens the tough layer of skin on calluses and corns as it allows them to fall off naturally. That's pretty cool, but where in the blue hell do you get licorice powder? That's so true. That is the most true statement ever.

Amazon, they got everything. I wonder if they do. I'm like, I'm tempted. I'm tempted. I'm doing it right now. I'm ahead of you. Don't worry about it.

I'm going to look it up while we're on here and we're talking. What, what do you have anything, uh, anything else that's that you remember growing up?

You know, I don't... There's so many things, but those were the ones that came to mind.

Here's one that I, I can't tell you that it works for sure, but lavender for sleeping problems. And I will tell you that my friend got me a little spray bottle and it's like a lavender and you're supposed to spray it on your pillows like a little bit before you go to bed. And I sleep like a baby. So I'm gonna say yes, but.

Yes.

You know, just the smell is good. And obviously it says lavender has pain relieving and sedative effects. No sniffing this oil before bedtime. I said, so sniffing this oil before bedtime can help you sleep easier and have a deeper sleep. I like it.

Mm-hmm.

They have licorice root extract on amazon.com. So it's not powder, but they have the root.

There you go.

Uh, they actually have yeah, or I'm looking I looked it up too. They do have a organic licorice powder as well So they so they have both Yeah, so yeah, there you go. I guess if you want to make it you can make your uh, you can pick up a little uh, Petroleum and make yourself some of that This one I think definitely is real aloe vera for burns I

Oh, that's funny.

Mm-hmm.

since I was a little kid, if you had anyone who had an aloe vera tree, you know, like in the neighborhood, yeah, they would cut it and give you some, all the time. Ha ha.

There it's a cactus. Yeah We we have a big one that's outside by the pool And because everybody gets burnt when they come over and they get in the pool like as much as I tell them put on sunscreen Nobody freaking listens to me. I'm the only one that's trying not to make myself crispy and um Everybody gets aloe vera everybody

Right, right.

Mm-hmm.

It works and pretty much any of the store remedies or gels that you can get pretty much have it in there.

You know, aloe vera juice actually helps with stomach issues as well. It helps with ulcers and, um, like that fire gut you get, like where you're, I don't know what that's called ingestion. It really does, um, kind of neutralize that.

Where you're yucky. Mm-hmm.

There's nothing worse than bad, bad heartburn. I had heartburn like bad a couple weeks ago. Like I thought I was having a heart attack. It was like so bad. I was throwing up and like, and not good. Here's one for you. Witch hazel for hemorrhoids.

Yeah.

Ugh.

I would be careful putting witch hazel on anything because when I was in beauty school It would burn the shit out of my face Like even where it had dripped you could see where it would raise up my skin and just burn it And I couldn't imagine putting that on my butthole

It's true.

It does help though it calms blood vessels, reduces swelling and stops bleeding. It's actually a really good. Here's one that I can't even believe is real, but it says duct tape for warts.

Yeah, I'm gonna pass on that one.

Hmm.

Yeah, it says you can soak the area in warm water. So you put on some duct tape. Apply a piece of duct tape over the wart and remove every three or six days to let the skin breathe. You can soak the area in warm water and rub it with a pumice stone to speed up the process.

It does say it takes several weeks, but it's the painless way to get rid of a wart. Fuck that, I'm just gonna go get the wart remover.

when I was younger when I was younger I had warts on my hand and um my grandfather bought one for a penny and the damn thing was gone like in a couple of days he's all hey I'm gonna buy that for me for a penny I'm like why the hell would you want that he gave me the penny and I swear to you a couple days later it was gone but I had other ones he just bought one so my mom went and got compound w when it was first out

Yeah.

And she didn't read it. She just slathered that shit all over my skin and it literally took off my whole thumbprint. Like my whole fingertip was raw because she didn't just put it right on the wart. She put it all over it and my skin fell off and I couldn't... I had to wear bandages for a couple weeks and like I was really sensitive for a long time. But those warts never came back. Like she killed them. They're gone.

Yeah. Didn't read it.

Yeah. I remember I had one on my finger as well. My dad went and got the Compound W and I remember it being in this like little glass bottle and then the actual, this is how old we are, the actual applier was also glass. Yeah, like now it's not. I'm, I'm

Yes.

was also glass, yes.

Now that we can look things up on the interweb while we're doing it, everything's a plastic applicator. It's like, yeah, everything's plastic. The actual bottle that it comes in is plastic. The lid, everything is all a plastic piece. But yeah, it was a glass piece that was rounded at the end and they would like, you know, tap it to get it somewhat dry and then tap it on your ward.

Really?

Yeah.

I totally remember that like it was yesterday. Matter of fact, it was over at the apartments that I lived at over there on Havenhurst. Yeah, I mean, I left there when I was 20.

That was a long time ago.

Yeah.

So, I mean, that was a long, long time ago, but I remember, and I remember that Compound W being in our medicine cabinet for like 20 years after that. Like to the point where like the cover, you know, the sticker that was on it was like brown. Like it had just aged inside there. Oh yeah, it would just go, it'd go. It would.

Yeah, for years exactly.

Yeah. And if you opened it, the whole thing would be crusty. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. We had one of those two.

Yeah, it would finally come off or you'd have to you'd have to put the bottle under the sink water To like try to loosen it because it just been glued on there forever Uh, that's funny. It just goes like we we've all grown up in this

Mm-hmm.

Do you remember maculacome and methylade? Methylade burnt and maculacome did not, but it all made your skin red.

That sounds familiar. I know that one, Mathiolade, yes.

Yeah, what, methylate. Methylate, here we go. Methylate. I wanna see a thermosol. There we go, chemical compound. Let's see.

Oh, you can still buy it. It's on Amazon. That's wild. Yeah, I remember. I remember the other one, the thermo cell. I have that.

I told you could buy anything on Amazon.

Yeah, it was if they were red and so far after your skin was healed your skin would stay red from Using that medicine because every time you took the band-aid off you needed a new layer of that crap on you Yeah

That's crazy. Yeah, it's still, you can still get it and as well. So it's basically the same chemical compound. I think it just had different names for different things. But yeah, that's, thermosol is the actual chemical compound, but it's sold under the name of methylate.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

Good to know.

That's funny. Yeah, we used a lot of that.

That is so wild. It's an ant. It does all kinds of shit too. It's an antiseptic and an antifungal. Wow.

Yeah. Well, I think there's something about that, you know, they use, um, when you go into surgery, they use that red soap. I believe that there's the same sort of medicine from the Methylate or the Mercurocombe, whatever it is, that red, it turns your skin red, the stuff that they use for when you have the surgery.

Yeah, it would make sense because it's an antiseptic. So, yeah, that's funny. The other thing is you remember going and getting, I remember if I had a cut or something, my grandma had iodine. Like it.

It kills everything. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. That's what I'm talking about. That's what they clean your skin with before you go in for surgery I'm sure there's a similar Chemical component that they use for that as well

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. It's, I mean, I remember iodine like it was yesterday. Like it was, and you're right though. I remember like you take the band-aid off and you'd have a brown thumb. It would just be like, and it would take, your cut would have healed, you know, four weeks before that and it would still be like, yeah, just super brown.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

No, not that long, but yeah.

Yep.

Baking soda for whiter teeth. Yeah, but God, it's gross.

That works.

You just put it, you know what I would do is I would pour a little bit in my hand and then I would put toothpaste on my toothbrush and then dip it into the toothpaste and then use it. It's not that bad.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, because then you're not getting the... Yeah. When I was having my heartburn problem, I didn't have anything in the house to settle it down. And so of course I always call my nurse because she's the people that I was like, I'm like, look, I'm in a lot of pain. She goes, go take a shot of baking soda. And boop. I didn't have no pickles in the house.

You're getting the toothpaste taste more than the... yeah.

Mm-hmm or pickle juice and as a matter of fact pickle juice they say is really good for leg cramps and Not only pickle juice, what is the other thing that they use for that?

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Mustard if you have heartburn take a tablespoon of mustard I Did that I don't know if it really helped it kind of made it feel like I was on more fire, you know, I was more on fire on the inside, but

Oh, I love mustard.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know, because I what I had what I ate that day had mustard on it.

Yeah, but see they say that though, pickle juice, leg cramps, that's what they say to use like if you're cramping and mustard for heartburn. Yeah.

Hmm. And what about this one? I'm sure you've probably heard of this one. I think we all have a tennis ball for sore feet.

Now, you rule, Amon?

Oh yeah, so you're like, you're supposed to, yeah, you roll it, basically just stretching out your heel. You put your heel on it and move it around. It's basically just moving some of the muscles down your feet to kind of loosen them up. Time tea for a cough. I've never heard of that one. But I mean, I know there's so many different teas and if you throw a little honey in there. There's also a, what's it called? It's like a,

Okay.

Got it.

Yep.

A star, it's shaped like a star. It's like a, there you go. You throw one of those in there too. With a little honey, it'll help you. Help you good. Blackberry tea for diarrhea.

Anise?

Hmm.

Who knew?

Mm-hmm. You can make blackberry tea by boiling fresh or frozen blackberries or the leaves in water for 10 minutes and then drink it.

You know, there's also now that we think of it, no polis, which is a cactus, um, made in a lot of Mexican cuisine. That's good for lowering your A1C, your, your blood sugar. Again, it's also a cactus. Um, but it's really good for that. And also my cousin would boil seven leaves from a loquat tree.

Hmm.

Like seven leaves and that is supposed to if you if you boil it and then you let you turn it into a tea And then you drink it and that's supposed to help you with your blood sugar Also, I heard that um hamica which is um Hibiscus flower tea will help with that as well

Alrighty.

Okay, that's uh, have you ever heard of fennel seed for indigestion?

Lots of tees.

Mm-hmm. Fennel seeds gross though, like they put fennel seed in sausage and stuff and when they do that, I can't eat it. I don't like it Fennel is not my favorite nor is licorice

Yeah, I'm not a fan of... I don't do licorice. I'm not a big fan of that.

Yeah.

eucalyptus oil for sinus problems. Yeah, I think that's, that's pretty, I love eucalyptus too. It's like one of my favorite. There's nothing better than, there's a essential oil called

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm

As I'm going southbound on the 405 where the five interchange is, to my right of me, if I'm going south, to the right of me there's eucalyptus trees and I can smell them on my motorcycle as I'm driving and I gotta tell you it is the most beautiful smell as you're, you know, you're driving. You smell everything when you're on a motorcycle because you're out in it.

Mm-hmm.

Nice.

But right there, even though it's always congested with traffic, it always smells so good. And it's from the eucalyptus trees.

Yeah, I there's something about it. There's this it opens to me when I smell eucalyptus It just gives me that wide open like everything this smells like ah, yeah, it's so um It's like right in your face too. You know what I mean? No wonder the uh, the little koalas like it Yeah, they'd love them some let's see if there's anything else on here that

Yeah. Ah. Yeah.

It's a good smell.

Right?

that you remember. Here's one I didn't know, vodka for stinky feet. You make a Soca cloth and vodka and wipe your feet for instant relief of odor. You can also put it in a spray bottle and coat your shoes.

Oh.

Also got one for stinky feet. It's called soap and water. It works great.

Yes, I, yeah, well, yeah, I, I think that, you know, some, some folks, obviously, have some issues that are bigger than that. Yeah, I mean, I think, I definitely think that that's there, but,

Gotcha. Soap.

Hehehehe

Yeah.

Obviously, some people just have some stinky ass feet. Here's one garlic for athlete's foot. Yeah, it's an antifungal. Says you can.

I heard that.

Also, you could take Listerine and put it in water and add some hydrogen peroxide to it and soak your feet in it. It gets rid of nail fungus.

Really? Well, well, well. Something you learn every day.

Mm-hmm. Every day.

Wow, I didn't know that one. This one basically just says, mince some garlic, put it in some olive oil and stab it on the feet. Yeah. I know, right? Make you wanna order a pizza. Vinegar and rubbing alcohol for swimmer's ear.

Interesting. That would make me want some Italian food though. Yeah. Right?

Mmm.

It makes equal parts and apply a few drops in each ear. And then, yeah, yogurt for bad breath. Yogurt contains active bacteria, so that'll help. Oh, so there you go. So if you got some nasty ass breath, go get yourself a little yogurt.

Interesting.

Mm-hmm.

Get yourself a lot of yogurt. Yeah.

Yeah, beats for constipation. Yeah, I didn't know that, but I mean, beats are it's a pretty good, you know what I mean? And they're good for your heart because they help with blood circulation.

Who knew?

They're very earthy.

Yes.

Actually, they're good for a lot of things because they come from the ground where all the minerals and stuff are

It does say be careful because if you do like beat drinks, your stool and urine may turn red, so don't. It'll turn your poop and your pee red.

Yeah.

It a wetta wetta?

Oh, yeah, it does every time I eat them. The first time I ate them, I was back east. And everything weird happened when I'd go back east to see my in-laws. And we had beets that they grew in their garden. And then the next morning, I went to pee and I was like, Oh my god, I'm dying. Like it was, it was crazy how red it was.

Yeah, so be care...

Right.

And then I told my ex and he's like, didn't you eat the beets last night? And I was like, that's what I had no idea. But I was really worried and I was like, you got to come here. You got to see this. And I'm hoping that nobody comes into the bathroom before I get him in there to show him all was stupid.

All right, here's our last one, at least on this little page that I'm looking it up and I'll leave this one in the link as well in the show notes. Apples for clean teeth.

Hmm

Let's see, the fibers in apples act as a natural toothbrush and scrub away plaque and food debris. Why the acicity kills bacteria that causes bad breath. So there you go, apples.

Interesting.

My cousin was in the Navy and he would say to eat an apple before you get on the boat because it would help with motion sickness.

Hmm. I would go along with somebody who's been on a lot of boats because yeah, that's a whole other type of thing. I guess Ginger would be your other one, right?

Yeah, he was, he lived on it. So there's that.

Yeah, I get, right? We came up with a lot of them. I had a lot of home remedies.

Yeah, I think that there's, you know, look, there's so many things that have been handed down. I'm sure that there's people who are listening to this going, Oh, what about this one? Or what about that one? That's the best part about, you know, growing up the way we did, hopefully, we'll be able to hand some of these down. Because obviously, our grandmothers

all come from a totally different time where you couldn't just run over to the CVS and pick something up. So these are where these home remedies grew from because they were either they knew that some of this stuff was in the medicine

Mm-hmm.

And then they went, well, if ginger is this and it's in this tea or blah, it's probably going to help you. So I'm sure that that's kind of how our relatives found out about this stuff because how else would have they, but.

Mm-hmm.

And so many things are passed down just in don't ask me just do it just put this there like why do we need to put just put it there like Put it there. Yeah. A lot a lot. But you know, I gotta tell you in my in my group of people. If somebody doesn't have the answer. They call me. They're like, what do you got for us and most of the time I've got stuff. It's kind of weird. You got to ask me.

Yeah, just shut up and put it there. How many times were you told that? I was told that all the time.

Right.

Like this is what's going on. What would you do or what? What did your family do? And I would, I could tell you, but I can't, I can't remember all of them for a podcast. They came up with quite a few though. I did.

Yeah, that's the best part about like what we're talking about today, though. I think that as much as we are talking about home remedies, we're also talking about the past, like all these things were, you know, um, given down from, you know,

and family.

family to family to family. I'm sure that the reason that I remember these is that my grandma told my mom and then my, you know, my grandparents told my dad and it was a mixture of, you know, southern and Midwestern shit and they just kind of threw it together.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, well look at the chiggers. I had never even heard about chiggers and here I got a kid that's needing help and You know one of my aunts happened to grow up back east and knew what to do and then you know when I had My my biggest home remedy that saved my life was literally that rhubarb that they put on the On my poison oak because nothing was helping they were getting ready to hospitalize me. I couldn't even walk I was so swollen. It was disgusting and so uh

Right. And like I said, it's pretty funny that we've been doing this for so long. And obviously they've worked.

Grateful.

Mm-hmm.

And I think that a lot of these medications, now that are all chemicals and all kinds of other shit, they all started, you know, the old school doctors in the old west, that's, they had tons of this shit in a wagon. It was like, well, you know, eat this ginger root and maybe you'll feel better. And that's what they do, or make tea from it or whatever. It's funny, cause you remember, cause I remember getting chicken pox and.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, absolutely.

I have a picture somewhere. I wish I could, I hope I can find it. It's got to be in an album somewhere. It's me standing in front of a wall with calamine lotion, like just everywhere. I mean, I had, and, and it was just me and a pair of shorts and like, uh, and I had bad chicken pox, but I went looking for calamine lotion.

Everywhere. Yeah.

because I was thinking, okay, like I have mosquito bites. And of course it helps with inflammation from bites. They still have it. You can go buy a bottle of calamine lotion. It's not as, you know, when you go into the anti-itch section of CVS now, it's mostly like clear gels that are the same Benadryl.

Yeah.

Benadryl and yeah.

Benadryl makes a really good one. Like I said, mosquitoes like me, the Benadryl one is top-notch. It's expensive as fuck, but it works really well. The ankle biters get me every summer, these damn ankle biters. So this last year, I got really good with spraying off on me and trying to, and I didn't suffer as bad. So that's a good thing. Anything else you wanna say for the old home remedies?

Hmm, I have to remember that.

Mm-hmm.

Good.

No, but I'd like to hear if you guys got some that we didn't talk about like please send them our way I'd like to hear these

Me too, I think that would be like a fun show that may have to come back and talk more about things because there's so many that I'm sure are out there from our listeners that would be able to be like, you'd go, or that we'd hear and go, oh shit, yeah, I do remember that one. Because there is, there's so many things out there.

Please, yeah.

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm, that there is. Good.

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