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My mother always made a poultice when we had a bad chest cold. As I remember, it was soothing, warm and it helped.
Mustard Plaster :A mustard poultice is a time-honored therapy: Your great-grandmother may have used mustard poultices and plasters to treat congestion, coughs, bronchitis or pneumonia. A mustard plaster offers immediate relief to discomfort in the chest and actually helps to treat infectious conditions - a much needed therapy. It works mainly by increasing circulation, perspiration and heat in the afflicted area.
The person receiving the treatment should sit or lie down comfortably. The best poultices are made from black mustard seeds ground fresh in a coffee grinder, but ordinary yellow mustard powder will do in a pinch. To prepare a mustard poultice, mix 1/2 cup mustard powder with 1 cup flour and stir hot water into the mix to form a paste. Spread the mixture on a piece of cotton or muslin has been soaked in hot water. Cover with a second piece of dry material. Lay the moist side of the poultice across the person's chest or back.
Leave the poultice on for 15 to 30 minutes; promptly remove it if the person experiences any discomfort. The procedure is likely to promote perspiration and reddening of the chest. Give the individual plenty of liquids during the procedure and encourage her to take a warm or cool shower afterward, then rest or gently stretch for 1/2 hour. Do not administer this treatment to a young child, elderly person or the seriously ill without consulting a health care professional.
( but my mother used it on all of the above with great care)
Love to all
Holly
Mustard Plaster :A mustard poultice is a time-honored therapy: Your great-grandmother may have used mustard poultices and plasters to treat congestion, coughs, bronchitis or pneumonia. A mustard plaster offers immediate relief to discomfort in the chest and actually helps to treat infectious conditions - a much needed therapy. It works mainly by increasing circulation, perspiration and heat in the afflicted area.
The person receiving the treatment should sit or lie down comfortably. The best poultices are made from black mustard seeds ground fresh in a coffee grinder, but ordinary yellow mustard powder will do in a pinch. To prepare a mustard poultice, mix 1/2 cup mustard powder with 1 cup flour and stir hot water into the mix to form a paste. Spread the mixture on a piece of cotton or muslin has been soaked in hot water. Cover with a second piece of dry material. Lay the moist side of the poultice across the person's chest or back.
Leave the poultice on for 15 to 30 minutes; promptly remove it if the person experiences any discomfort. The procedure is likely to promote perspiration and reddening of the chest. Give the individual plenty of liquids during the procedure and encourage her to take a warm or cool shower afterward, then rest or gently stretch for 1/2 hour. Do not administer this treatment to a young child, elderly person or the seriously ill without consulting a health care professional.
( but my mother used it on all of the above with great care)
Love to all
Holly
I think one of the coolest things about these remedies is that they are always administered with a large dose of LOVE! I remember I used to get numerous respiratory infections when I was little, and my mother used to make me a croup tent out of sheets over my bed. The she would direct the steam from the vaporizer into it, and I could play in there all day long. (Of course nowadays, I think the steam would kill me! I can't take that anymore.)
Thanks for the recipe for the poultice.
I enjoyed reading about your Mothers tent made of sheets to hold in the vapors from the vaporizer to help you feel better. Your Mother loved you...
Thanks so very much for sharing Sue...
Another one I loved was fresh squeezed lemon juice with a garlic clove finely chopped added a little honey mixed in. That was my mothers cough syrup. I still love the taste, and I think it worked just fine for us.
Love all, and stay well.
Love
Holly
all made their cough syrup with whiskey lemon and honey and not a one of those women drank . One time I stepped on a rusty nail and my grandmother made a fire out of brown paper bags and suger and held my foot over the smoke and my foot didnt get sore .
Thanks so much for Sharing...
Gosh we could write a great book made of our memorys from our child hood. Remedies given to us by loving hands of our Mothers handed down by there mothers and so on.... How wonderful...
margaret
For an upset stomach, you took coke syrup (the same stuff coca-cola is made from - you could get it at the drug store).
The hot tea, lemon juice, honey and whiskey was called a "hot toddy" used for colds.
For bee sting, it was baking soda and for poison oak you took a bath in tea. (My doctor once said the reason this works was the tannic acid in the tea.)
For babies, it was cornstarch used for diaper rash.
In the wintertime we were always admonished to bundle up or we'd "catch our death of pneumonia" and the thing I'll bet we all heard to always wear clean underwear for what if we "were in an accident and had to go to the hospital". .
Yep. Much love there.
incase of an accident why? if you are in an accident you would probably dirty your under wear anyway.ha ha.
Lots of hugs to all...!