Woman Tweets Her “Genius” Potato Necklace Remedy For Her Son’s 102.3° Fever & People Online Are Facepalming
Getting sick is scary. Especially if there is something that never used to happen, or something that happens rarely, but feels different, it immediately sends alerts to our brains.
You know what else is scary? Hospitals. However, while getting sick is genuinely scary because it can mean death in certain cases, hospitals are places of healing, and the only scary things about them are the needles and other procedures we need to endure in order to get well.
So, it is no surprise that some people try everything (or anything) before actually turning to licensed professional doctors for help, giving rise to homeopathy and other unconventional treatments.
A mom recently tweeted about how a potato necklace drew out her son’s fever
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This exact thing happened with a young lady whose son got a 102.3-degree fever one day, and the first action she took was heeding the advice of her grandmother: putting a potato necklace on the boy.
Apparently, her grandmother was convinced that potatoes draw out the fever and turn black due to the toxins absorbed. In reality, the potato simply oxidizes, but that did not stop around 27,700 people from showing their support by liking her tweet on the matter.
The mother’s tweet included two photos of her son and the caption: “My granny told me about making a potato necklace to draw out fevers (it turns completely black) and y’all it really works! Nolan’s fever yesterday was 102.3 now he’s at 98.2.”
While it’s good that the fever has subsided and the kid was hopefully feeling better that day, the mother was completely oblivious to the fact that no matter what, the human body will always protect itself against everything that’s out to kill it. So it’s much more likely that the temperature went down because the immune system was doing its job. And the potato—it was oxidizing. That’s it.
It quickly drew 27.7k likes… and a lot of facepalming from the rest of the internet
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Needless to say, the Internet was facepalming left and right at this. While many people poked fun at this, others shared other homeopathic treatments passed down by their elders (that may or may not work). Read on to find out about them.
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What are some ridiculous homeopathic treatment methods that you’ve learned about, that don’t work, but people believe in them anyway? Let us know in the comment section below!
Here are some of the internet’s “treatments” to high fever and other illnesses…
"While some homeopathic treatments are proven to work, that does not mean that all of them do" - first of all, the above remedies, albeit equally stupid, have nothing to do with homeopathy. Homeopathy is the belief that an agent that causes a disease in a healthy individual can cure it in a sick one, that a solvent - usually water - can take on the properties of said substance if you add energy by shaking and that therefore with every step of dilution - or "potentisation", as homeopaths call it - increases the efficacy of the solution. And no, no homeopathic remedy has ever been proved to work.
We call a treatment "working" something that have more success rate than a placebo. There is nowhere to be found that homeopathic treatment get a higher success rate than eating an empty pill.
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Can I please unread that last comment (about used tampons and urine)? I really didn't need to know that. I think I'm gonna be sick (and no, I'm not looking for a crazy advice about how to cure that)
Right?! I was thinking the same thing! Poor kids.
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Some old remedies do help or work, but actual homoepathy and about 90 percent of "home remedies"? BS. BTW, the onion in the room is meant to make your eyes and nose run to relieve congestion. Just eat veggie soup/broth. Get the nutrients and fluids, take a nap, wash your hands, y'know.... that uncommon "common sense" stuff!
Obviously the potato necklace is responsible. Suggesting that he got better after a good night's sleep is ludicrous.
The article is talking about natural remedies not homeopathy. There is a significant difference. I personally believe that there are natural remedies that work, though the potato one - I see no basis for that and can find nothing that backs it up. Honey is one that science has shown to have antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. Also, what about the origins of penicillin and aspirin? There are 'remedies' that are based in superstition and not reality and that probably gives the whole natural remedy arena a bad name. I used a fresh tomato to treat a jelly fish sting... worked very well. You have to continually rub a fresh tomato half on the area but it dealt with the pain, severe, and prevented the skin from being damaged.
Acetic Acid (Found in Tomatoes and Vinegar) is medically proven to treat jellyfish stings.
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here come the anti-vaxers trying these bull s**t remedies too. So your kid will stink of onions, potatoes, vinegar, whatever on top of starting another plague? Awesome.
I mean...if they stink....no other kids will want to go near them...so..less chance of transmission?
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Are we back to voodoo treatments? Why not, the Earth is flat after all and you don't have to vaccinate your children. SMH
Oh you know that that is definitely what these crazy people believe.
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Jfc. The potatoes turned black because you had peeled potato cubes out overnight. His fever went down, because that's what fevers do. But sure, let your kid sleep in a pile of compost rather than give him children's cold medicine, Genius.
One of my co-workers bought a chihuahua, cause it "collects" the germs in the house and nobody will get the flu. It did not work, "because there was a new strain of flu" around, according to her. So she basically pulled a scientific argument as the explanation
How the f**k do these people reconcile this b******t with reality? So damn dumb.
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One of my great aunts was a "healer" back in her home country. She has dozens of these home remedies. Most of them don't work, but they make her feel like she is helping. I do , however, hate it when she places cut raw onions around the house of a sick person because it can take days for the smell to go away.
Well, studies are starting to show that you're not supposed to reduce fever anyway. Fever is the body's way of fighting an infection-- it's working as intended. The ONLY reason to reduce a fever is if your fever is excessively high, or if your body is having a sustained immune response that has the potential to harm you... in which case you may need to take something. When you artificially (through NSAIDs like ibuprofen etc) reduce a fever, you actually give a leg up to your virus or bacteria-- you can prolong infections. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001228090125.htm there are more sources. I think home remedies are stupid also, and obviously this one is bunk, but as a scientist, I see this happen a lot, people trusting moderm medicine blindly, with NO skepticism. No. Just like how 'eggs cause cholesterol' study was debunked, there are many things we take as gospel (salt being bad, for example) that we need to re examine.
Futhermore, some home remedies contain chemical compounds that can have an effect on the human body. I think that people tend to forget that everything is chemicals, so are 'natural' things-- and so are 'unnatural' things. They all have a source-- like 'artificial' sweeteners aren't actually made out of thin air from chemicals. Their source is still nature. Just because we haven't isolated the reason why certain things boost immunity or are naturally anti-viral, doesn't mean all these things are useless, it just means we have to study them more. Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27815461 And: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150416112826.htm Two examples of natural compounds that are starting to have studies looking into their efficacy. I suggest reading through Published Studies and keeping an open mind.
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There are no homeopathic remedies mentioned in the article or the responses. Are you writing about what you think are homeopathic remedies without even knowing what a homeopathic remedy is? And you have the nerve to make a joke of someone else's ignorance? What an absolute failure. Find a new occupation if this is the best you can do.
Comedian Dennis Miller once stated (paraphrase) That our embracing these ridiculous anti-scientific home remedies has gotten so bad that it's become impossible to get large portions of the population to see that someone that scientists say doesn't know what s/he is talking about really doesn't know what s/he is talking about.
SOME home remedies worked and were created ONLY because people were poor and couldn't afford a doctor and/or used substances that many drugs are derived from anyway, For example, in Eastern Europe mums would fill the ears of their kids with olive oil if they had an ear infection because many infection causing bacteria are obligate aerobes (require oxygen) and the oil would starve them. Sometimes pure honey would be used for its antibacterial properties. If they had the option of simple analgesia in pill form, trust me, they'd take it. That's not to say Big Pharma or the medical industry should be 100% trusted by anybody , but that medical scientists entire job is to discover and create the most effective and beneficial methods to DIRECTLY combat illness and whether its corrupted later on by the overall industry is not really their intention
The onion and vinegar thing has some merit. When I was a nursing student, doing rounds in the burn unit and infectious disease ward, there were little dishes of sliced onion floating in vinegar on every window sill, I asked and what I was told still amazes me. Turns out onions floating in vinegar is the only thing that absorbs the smell of gangrene and rotting/burnt flesh. Without it, the smell is too overwhelming for the patients, visitors and staff.
I find that if you apply a brick vigorously to the forehead it gets rid of irritations such as anti-vaxxers, flat earthers and people like this
Those desperate "remedies" are often applied at the peak of the fever, when the patient can't take any more and is ready to do anything. Then the fever declines again, as it naturally fluctuates, and people think they have found a cure. As a matter of fact, we humans are dumb as bread sometimes.
In my experience as a paramedic, it's not always wrong to do traditional way. My wife have gastric problem, and it usually can be heal by drinking boiled ginger and pandan leaf. When my family getting cold, we usually drink a glass of warm water each morning and before bed. It help much too.. Well, I dunno for the potato necklace.. Never tried that. But keep in mind that modern drug is not always the best cure.
My mom used to do that egg forehead thing. She doesn't believe in it anymore but i remember she would try to read the eggyolk in a class of cold water. It felt nice tho the cold egg on my forehead but thats about it. My mom still can't believe she did stuff like that😂 now we just drink tea with an advil pill and we're good to go
I've heard of leaving half an onion out sucks up bacteria, but then again we had neighbors who insisted that if you ate a poison ivy sandwich as a kid, you would be immune to it growing up...
Damn, those people were f*****g idiots, risking anaphylactic shock, or just enough swelling in their mouths and esophagus to cause them to choke and possibly suffocate. I'd rather put up with the itching on the outside of me than fight to breathe AND itch where I can't scratch! Where the F**K did they get an insane idea like that that could KILL you?
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The comment one person made about not letting doctors anywhere near their babies is just infuriating and depressing. There are old remedies that worked, like willow bark tea, which is like aspirin. But there are others which either have no effect or are actively harmful. The thing is, people think that because Mother Nature News has it on their website that it must be true. People use 'homeopathy' and 'holistic' as interchangeable terms, and think 'natural' means that it's good for you. It's also 'natural' to die from the flu and eating poisonous plants and NOT GETTING VACCINATED. Ai yai yai.
As for the vaporub on your feet, if you have a cough that's keeping you up all night, it does stop the night time coughing...tried and tested, is that one...
When I was a kid abouut 6 to 8 years old, I had earaches a LOT! My Granny would tell me to pee in a cup, and she would pour a little in my ear. I thought it was strange, but the earaches went away when we did this.
For the feet comment: It has been scientifically proven that when your feet get cold, blood rushes to the feet to try to keep them warm, diverting "traffic" from the nose and face. The nose and face, needs the blood flow to stave off germs and viruses. Now, when the feet are warm, the blood circulation can focus where it is necessary and helps keep us healthier (this was an extended study done by having people's feet in cold water / hot water and exposing them to viruses).
Congratulations, Back_to_the_Oil_Field! 18 people responded intelligently to this post and you're the only foulmouthed, sub-literate Neandethal among them!
The one about burning hair is pretty common in some parts of Africa. It isn't all that ridiculous when you consider how common witchcraft is in some communities. Hair is pretty common ingredient in love spells, curses etc. And whether you believe it works or not, his fear was totally justified. Lots of people burn their hair for this reason.
Witchcraft? Seriously? More like ignorance and fear. If someone doesn't know, teach them. If someone refuses to know, get away from them.
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I moved into an apartment with a brand new refrigerator and the chemical smell of it off gassing was awful. I put a bunch of boxes of baking powder in there to no effect. Then on a friends advice I put halved white onions in and within a few days the smell was gone. So they do something.
SOME home remedies work. Putting a towel containing a chopped onion between your ear and your pillow worked wonders for my cousin when he had an ear infection. Crushing the sharp edges of a clove and putting it next to the hurting tooth of my neighbors's kid resulted in my neighbors not having to go to the ER, they already had an appointment on monday with the boy's dentist. As for vinegar/vodka/cabbage/potato/onion socks, it's just the evaporation that cools down the body. If you have nothing else at hand, sure, but if your home remedy doesn't work, go to a hospital. Right now.
The onion against the ear, dunno if that would work. But, putting crushed clove against a sore tooth does work. Clove has an anaesthetic affect. Clove oil, if you can find it, makes for a great short-term numbing for things like teething pains. It's pretty much what Ora-gel is. As for the idea about using socks soaked in vodka--any high-proof alcohol will work. So will rubbing alcohol. You're right; it's the evaporation. In this case, the RAPID evaporation. It's sharp and can actually be a little painful for some people, especially kids, who'll find more scary than painful, but they'll cry anyway. Skip using onions or other vegetables in the socks--use them in soup, instead, and feed it to your kid. It's better for them. :-)
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Come on 102.3 is not so high in the first hand, it would be better for her kids health to let his body handle the "situation" without external help. With my kids I would usually let it go up to 103.1 under supervision (i.e. checking on a regular basis) during day time, if they handle it.
My maternal grandmother, who during her teens came to the USA from Italy, believed in the "evil eye." One time, at her church in Pennsylvania, a parish priest was sick and she did some hocus pocus with a bowl of water and some oil and "cured" him.
I do think some of the home remedies work, after all, back in the day when their was not a doctor near by, mothers would try anything, eventually find some that helped, the onions actually work, put in a dish, at bedside table, the onions draw the bacteria from the air, but put in socks, I won't try, Indians have many ideas, I would trust !!!
It's 38.9C. While I absolutely agree that we Americans are pitifully late in getting up to speed with the metric system, it's not that hard to google. It would have taken you less time than you spent making that post.
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No. You believed it worked. It just cleared your sinuses, like horseradish or any other pungent spice. It didn't cure anything.
Load More Replies... Many childhood fevers will pass off on their own, if the child gets a good sleep.
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If we remember correctly : in that study *some* of the sick believers got a tiny bit better faster *if they were TOLD people were praying from them * from the same religious group.
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1. Potassium is in almost any kind of food (In fact, you take in so much of it one of the main tasks of your kidneys is to filter out superfluous potassium. That's one of the things that makes being on dialysis so bad: You need to be on a low-potassium diet, which basically amounts to not eating too much) 2. You don't absorb it through your skin 3. it does jack-s**t for your immune system.
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Before modern meficine, people got better dispite the remedies. A common cold takes about a week weather or not you take medicine.
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I'm sure the cold moisture is similar to that of a cold flannel, but it's not a cure imo
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ARRRRG !!! NO NO NO NO. Rinse the burnt area in cold running water. NOT ice NOT anything that might contaminate it. ------------ on a small burn the raw egg may have had a cooling effect / placebo effect. ___________________ and please do a first aid course with the Red Cross / St Johns ambulance /or similar.
Load More Replies... "While some homeopathic treatments are proven to work, that does not mean that all of them do" - first of all, the above remedies, albeit equally stupid, have nothing to do with homeopathy. Homeopathy is the belief that an agent that causes a disease in a healthy individual can cure it in a sick one, that a solvent - usually water - can take on the properties of said substance if you add energy by shaking and that therefore with every step of dilution - or "potentisation", as homeopaths call it - increases the efficacy of the solution. And no, no homeopathic remedy has ever been proved to work.
We call a treatment "working" something that have more success rate than a placebo. There is nowhere to be found that homeopathic treatment get a higher success rate than eating an empty pill.
Load More Replies... Can I please unread that last comment (about used tampons and urine)? I really didn't need to know that. I think I'm gonna be sick (and no, I'm not looking for a crazy advice about how to cure that)
Right?! I was thinking the same thing! Poor kids.
Load More Replies... Some old remedies do help or work, but actual homoepathy and about 90 percent of "home remedies"? BS. BTW, the onion in the room is meant to make your eyes and nose run to relieve congestion. Just eat veggie soup/broth. Get the nutrients and fluids, take a nap, wash your hands, y'know.... that uncommon "common sense" stuff!
Obviously the potato necklace is responsible. Suggesting that he got better after a good night's sleep is ludicrous.
The article is talking about natural remedies not homeopathy. There is a significant difference. I personally believe that there are natural remedies that work, though the potato one - I see no basis for that and can find nothing that backs it up. Honey is one that science has shown to have antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. Also, what about the origins of penicillin and aspirin? There are 'remedies' that are based in superstition and not reality and that probably gives the whole natural remedy arena a bad name. I used a fresh tomato to treat a jelly fish sting... worked very well. You have to continually rub a fresh tomato half on the area but it dealt with the pain, severe, and prevented the skin from being damaged.
Acetic Acid (Found in Tomatoes and Vinegar) is medically proven to treat jellyfish stings.
Load More Replies... here come the anti-vaxers trying these bull s**t remedies too. So your kid will stink of onions, potatoes, vinegar, whatever on top of starting another plague? Awesome.
I mean...if they stink....no other kids will want to go near them...so..less chance of transmission?
Load More Replies... Are we back to voodoo treatments? Why not, the Earth is flat after all and you don't have to vaccinate your children. SMH
Oh you know that that is definitely what these crazy people believe.
Load More Replies... Jfc. The potatoes turned black because you had peeled potato cubes out overnight. His fever went down, because that's what fevers do. But sure, let your kid sleep in a pile of compost rather than give him children's cold medicine, Genius.
One of my co-workers bought a chihuahua, cause it "collects" the germs in the house and nobody will get the flu. It did not work, "because there was a new strain of flu" around, according to her. So she basically pulled a scientific argument as the explanation
How the f**k do these people reconcile this b******t with reality? So damn dumb.
Load More Replies... One of my great aunts was a "healer" back in her home country. She has dozens of these home remedies. Most of them don't work, but they make her feel like she is helping. I do , however, hate it when she places cut raw onions around the house of a sick person because it can take days for the smell to go away.
Well, studies are starting to show that you're not supposed to reduce fever anyway. Fever is the body's way of fighting an infection-- it's working as intended. The ONLY reason to reduce a fever is if your fever is excessively high, or if your body is having a sustained immune response that has the potential to harm you... in which case you may need to take something. When you artificially (through NSAIDs like ibuprofen etc) reduce a fever, you actually give a leg up to your virus or bacteria-- you can prolong infections. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001228090125.htm there are more sources. I think home remedies are stupid also, and obviously this one is bunk, but as a scientist, I see this happen a lot, people trusting moderm medicine blindly, with NO skepticism. No. Just like how 'eggs cause cholesterol' study was debunked, there are many things we take as gospel (salt being bad, for example) that we need to re examine.
Futhermore, some home remedies contain chemical compounds that can have an effect on the human body. I think that people tend to forget that everything is chemicals, so are 'natural' things-- and so are 'unnatural' things. They all have a source-- like 'artificial' sweeteners aren't actually made out of thin air from chemicals. Their source is still nature. Just because we haven't isolated the reason why certain things boost immunity or are naturally anti-viral, doesn't mean all these things are useless, it just means we have to study them more. Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27815461 And: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150416112826.htm Two examples of natural compounds that are starting to have studies looking into their efficacy. I suggest reading through Published Studies and keeping an open mind.
Load More Replies... There are no homeopathic remedies mentioned in the article or the responses. Are you writing about what you think are homeopathic remedies without even knowing what a homeopathic remedy is? And you have the nerve to make a joke of someone else's ignorance? What an absolute failure. Find a new occupation if this is the best you can do.
Comedian Dennis Miller once stated (paraphrase) That our embracing these ridiculous anti-scientific home remedies has gotten so bad that it's become impossible to get large portions of the population to see that someone that scientists say doesn't know what s/he is talking about really doesn't know what s/he is talking about.
SOME home remedies worked and were created ONLY because people were poor and couldn't afford a doctor and/or used substances that many drugs are derived from anyway, For example, in Eastern Europe mums would fill the ears of their kids with olive oil if they had an ear infection because many infection causing bacteria are obligate aerobes (require oxygen) and the oil would starve them. Sometimes pure honey would be used for its antibacterial properties. If they had the option of simple analgesia in pill form, trust me, they'd take it. That's not to say Big Pharma or the medical industry should be 100% trusted by anybody , but that medical scientists entire job is to discover and create the most effective and beneficial methods to DIRECTLY combat illness and whether its corrupted later on by the overall industry is not really their intention
The onion and vinegar thing has some merit. When I was a nursing student, doing rounds in the burn unit and infectious disease ward, there were little dishes of sliced onion floating in vinegar on every window sill, I asked and what I was told still amazes me. Turns out onions floating in vinegar is the only thing that absorbs the smell of gangrene and rotting/burnt flesh. Without it, the smell is too overwhelming for the patients, visitors and staff.
I find that if you apply a brick vigorously to the forehead it gets rid of irritations such as anti-vaxxers, flat earthers and people like this
Those desperate "remedies" are often applied at the peak of the fever, when the patient can't take any more and is ready to do anything. Then the fever declines again, as it naturally fluctuates, and people think they have found a cure. As a matter of fact, we humans are dumb as bread sometimes.
In my experience as a paramedic, it's not always wrong to do traditional way. My wife have gastric problem, and it usually can be heal by drinking boiled ginger and pandan leaf. When my family getting cold, we usually drink a glass of warm water each morning and before bed. It help much too.. Well, I dunno for the potato necklace.. Never tried that. But keep in mind that modern drug is not always the best cure.
My mom used to do that egg forehead thing. She doesn't believe in it anymore but i remember she would try to read the eggyolk in a class of cold water. It felt nice tho the cold egg on my forehead but thats about it. My mom still can't believe she did stuff like that😂 now we just drink tea with an advil pill and we're good to go
I've heard of leaving half an onion out sucks up bacteria, but then again we had neighbors who insisted that if you ate a poison ivy sandwich as a kid, you would be immune to it growing up...
Damn, those people were f*****g idiots, risking anaphylactic shock, or just enough swelling in their mouths and esophagus to cause them to choke and possibly suffocate. I'd rather put up with the itching on the outside of me than fight to breathe AND itch where I can't scratch! Where the F**K did they get an insane idea like that that could KILL you?
Load More Replies... The comment one person made about not letting doctors anywhere near their babies is just infuriating and depressing. There are old remedies that worked, like willow bark tea, which is like aspirin. But there are others which either have no effect or are actively harmful. The thing is, people think that because Mother Nature News has it on their website that it must be true. People use 'homeopathy' and 'holistic' as interchangeable terms, and think 'natural' means that it's good for you. It's also 'natural' to die from the flu and eating poisonous plants and NOT GETTING VACCINATED. Ai yai yai.
As for the vaporub on your feet, if you have a cough that's keeping you up all night, it does stop the night time coughing...tried and tested, is that one...
When I was a kid abouut 6 to 8 years old, I had earaches a LOT! My Granny would tell me to pee in a cup, and she would pour a little in my ear. I thought it was strange, but the earaches went away when we did this.
For the feet comment: It has been scientifically proven that when your feet get cold, blood rushes to the feet to try to keep them warm, diverting "traffic" from the nose and face. The nose and face, needs the blood flow to stave off germs and viruses. Now, when the feet are warm, the blood circulation can focus where it is necessary and helps keep us healthier (this was an extended study done by having people's feet in cold water / hot water and exposing them to viruses).
Congratulations, Back_to_the_Oil_Field! 18 people responded intelligently to this post and you're the only foulmouthed, sub-literate Neandethal among them!
The one about burning hair is pretty common in some parts of Africa. It isn't all that ridiculous when you consider how common witchcraft is in some communities. Hair is pretty common ingredient in love spells, curses etc. And whether you believe it works or not, his fear was totally justified. Lots of people burn their hair for this reason.
Witchcraft? Seriously? More like ignorance and fear. If someone doesn't know, teach them. If someone refuses to know, get away from them.
Load More Replies... I moved into an apartment with a brand new refrigerator and the chemical smell of it off gassing was awful. I put a bunch of boxes of baking powder in there to no effect. Then on a friends advice I put halved white onions in and within a few days the smell was gone. So they do something.
SOME home remedies work. Putting a towel containing a chopped onion between your ear and your pillow worked wonders for my cousin when he had an ear infection. Crushing the sharp edges of a clove and putting it next to the hurting tooth of my neighbors's kid resulted in my neighbors not having to go to the ER, they already had an appointment on monday with the boy's dentist. As for vinegar/vodka/cabbage/potato/onion socks, it's just the evaporation that cools down the body. If you have nothing else at hand, sure, but if your home remedy doesn't work, go to a hospital. Right now.
The onion against the ear, dunno if that would work. But, putting crushed clove against a sore tooth does work. Clove has an anaesthetic affect. Clove oil, if you can find it, makes for a great short-term numbing for things like teething pains. It's pretty much what Ora-gel is. As for the idea about using socks soaked in vodka--any high-proof alcohol will work. So will rubbing alcohol. You're right; it's the evaporation. In this case, the RAPID evaporation. It's sharp and can actually be a little painful for some people, especially kids, who'll find more scary than painful, but they'll cry anyway. Skip using onions or other vegetables in the socks--use them in soup, instead, and feed it to your kid. It's better for them. :-)
Load More Replies... Come on 102.3 is not so high in the first hand, it would be better for her kids health to let his body handle the "situation" without external help. With my kids I would usually let it go up to 103.1 under supervision (i.e. checking on a regular basis) during day time, if they handle it.
My maternal grandmother, who during her teens came to the USA from Italy, believed in the "evil eye." One time, at her church in Pennsylvania, a parish priest was sick and she did some hocus pocus with a bowl of water and some oil and "cured" him.
I do think some of the home remedies work, after all, back in the day when their was not a doctor near by, mothers would try anything, eventually find some that helped, the onions actually work, put in a dish, at bedside table, the onions draw the bacteria from the air, but put in socks, I won't try, Indians have many ideas, I would trust !!!
It's 38.9C. While I absolutely agree that we Americans are pitifully late in getting up to speed with the metric system, it's not that hard to google. It would have taken you less time than you spent making that post.
Load More Replies... No. You believed it worked. It just cleared your sinuses, like horseradish or any other pungent spice. It didn't cure anything.
Load More Replies... Many childhood fevers will pass off on their own, if the child gets a good sleep.
Load More Replies... If we remember correctly : in that study *some* of the sick believers got a tiny bit better faster *if they were TOLD people were praying from them * from the same religious group.
Load More Replies... 1. Potassium is in almost any kind of food (In fact, you take in so much of it one of the main tasks of your kidneys is to filter out superfluous potassium. That's one of the things that makes being on dialysis so bad: You need to be on a low-potassium diet, which basically amounts to not eating too much) 2. You don't absorb it through your skin 3. it does jack-s**t for your immune system.
Load More Replies... Before modern meficine, people got better dispite the remedies. A common cold takes about a week weather or not you take medicine.
Load More Replies... Name one old wives tale that has been proven to be true.
Load More Replies... I'm sure the cold moisture is similar to that of a cold flannel, but it's not a cure imo
Load More Replies... ARRRRG !!! NO NO NO NO. Rinse the burnt area in cold running water. NOT ice NOT anything that might contaminate it. ------------ on a small burn the raw egg may have had a cooling effect / placebo effect. ___________________ and please do a first aid course with the Red Cross / St Johns ambulance /or similar.
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