Swap or Mop Your Throat but Stay Away from Tucking Garlic

Merthiolate, Vicks, and blackberry brandy could heal anything in my childhood. Mom would swab my throat when it was sore and believe it or not I still swab my own throat. Rosie said her mom called it mopping her throat. Mom also thought of Vicks the way the Greek aunt thought of Windex in My Big Greek Wedding. Then Dad would always have a bottle of blackberry brandy in case we got the pukes. Now I realize that the reason that worked was because of the phenol in it. Jenn reminded me of the pennies that I taped over my mosquito bites one summer. Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. Glad there are no pictures of that fiasco. 

The book Get Well Naturally is one I have consulted over the years. It did have the right advice to help with migraines. Caffeine, niacin and keep moving. That has stayed off numerous headaches for me over the years. The idea is for all your body to be calling for oxygen so it can’t all rush to your head and create the pounding ache. One thing I don’t recommend and I never thought I would share this is to cure internal hemorrhoids with garlic tucked in a private space. Let me tell you, it oozes out of every pose of your body when applied this way and did nothing for the pain of the original problem. If you don’t believe me you can ask Susi. She is aware and has lorded that over me for a lifetime. Garlic is good for keeping mosquitoes from feasting one us. Mom took garlic for months before our Alaska trip and was the one who didn’t get eaten alive. 

Everyone has their own family remedies that they swear by. My kids have not carried on the cures I used when they were kids. That sort of makes me sad but then they will figure out what will work for them. Ryan did swear by ginger for car sickness. It even spared him from sea sickness when we went deep sea fishing in Mexico.  Let me know your tried and true treatments or perhaps the ones that are a big fat fail like the hidden garlic. 

In Him,

Joyful

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