Mountain Folk Remedies: The Foxfire Americana Library (9) by Edited by Foxfire Students Page A
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fourth cup hot water.
S AMANTHA S PEED
Mix honey and soda together. Take a teaspoonful before you go to bed and a teaspoonful when you get up.
F LORENCE C ARPENTER
Boil five lemons in a small amount of water. Slice them while hot into a clean enamel pan. Add one pound sugar. Return to fire. Add one tablespoon of oil of sweet almond, stirring constantly. Take one teaspoonful at the first onset of coughing.
D IANE F ORBES
Gather holly bush limbs and boil them to make tea. Drink one cup.
B EULAH F ORESTER
Wrap an onion in wet paper and bury it in hot ashes. Let it roast about thirty minutes and then squeeze out the juice. Add an equal amount of honey to the juice, mix well and take by the teaspoon as you would any cough syrup.
Or take the fat from a skinned ’possum, cook the grease out of it and keep it in a jar. As needed, take the grease and rub it on your chest to loosen cough.
B OB M ASHBURN
Heat together two tablespoons kerosene oil, one tablespoon turpentine, one tablespoon camphor (if available) and one cup of pure lard. Rub the salve on temples and the upper lip for head colds and on the Adam’s apple and chest for coughs and chest colds. Cover salve on the chest with a flannel cloth.
S TELLA W ALL
Use one part olive oil to one part whiskey and take two tablespoons every four hours until the cough is gone.
M RS . V ERLAN W HITLEY
Mix one cup liquor to one half cup of honey and the juice of one lemon.
D OROTHY B ECK
Add a pinch of soda to a spoonful of sorghum syrup (just enough to make it turn white) and stir and take.
E THEL O WENS
Make tea by putting pine needles and boneset in boiling water. Sweeten with honey.
Or put some ground ginger from the store in a saucer and add a little sugar. Put a little of this mixture on the tongue just before bedtime. It burns the throat and will stop a cough most of the time.
A NONYMOUS
Croup
To prevent croup in children, make a bib from a piece of chamois skin. Melt together some pine pitch and tallow and rub it into bib. Have the child wear it all the time.
D IANE F ORBES
Make a little ball up of a half teaspoon of sugar, a drop of kerosene oil, and about a half teaspoon of Vicks salve. Swallow this.
A NNIE M AE H ENRY
Mix groundhog grease, turpentine, and a little lamp oil together. Dip a rag into the mixture and saturate it. Then lay that on your chest.
W ILMA B EASLEY
Dip the hot ashes right up from a fireplace. Put enough ashes in a half glass of cold water to raise the level of water to the top of the glass. Let it settle until every bit of the ashes settles to the bottom. It’ll be just as clear on top and you take a spoon and spoon off some of the water. That cold water will cool the ashes down by the time it’s ready, so it will be cool enough to drink. I still use that for the grandchildren when I can find the ashes. It’ll knock the croup out just like that.
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Cuts and Sores
Pound a dock root until it’s soft and juice comes out of it. Put enough sweet cream on it to cover it. Rub the mixture on a cut or sore.
L OTTIE S HILLINGBURG
Bathe the sores off real good in warm salty water. Then you get Vaseline or something where the cloth wouldn’t stick and wrap it.
But if a sore got infected then they’d use the walnut poultice (ground walnut leaves and table salt).
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Diarrhea
Boil a lady-slipper plant in water. Strain the water and drink.
G LADYS Q UEEN
Get some soot off the back of the chimney. Put a teaspoon of that soot in a glass of water. Let the soot settle out and drink the clear water.
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Pull up some blackberry roots and clean them and boil them. Strain and drink the water.
F LORENCE C ARPENTER
Diphtheria
Make a little mop to mop the throat by getting three long chicken feathers and stripping most of the little feathers off the quills. Leave a few up on the end. Tie the quills together with thread with those three little bunches of feathers up on one end.
Then take some
S AMANTHA S PEED
Mix honey and soda together. Take a teaspoonful before you go to bed and a teaspoonful when you get up.
F LORENCE C ARPENTER
Boil five lemons in a small amount of water. Slice them while hot into a clean enamel pan. Add one pound sugar. Return to fire. Add one tablespoon of oil of sweet almond, stirring constantly. Take one teaspoonful at the first onset of coughing.
D IANE F ORBES
Gather holly bush limbs and boil them to make tea. Drink one cup.
B EULAH F ORESTER
Wrap an onion in wet paper and bury it in hot ashes. Let it roast about thirty minutes and then squeeze out the juice. Add an equal amount of honey to the juice, mix well and take by the teaspoon as you would any cough syrup.
Or take the fat from a skinned ’possum, cook the grease out of it and keep it in a jar. As needed, take the grease and rub it on your chest to loosen cough.
B OB M ASHBURN
Heat together two tablespoons kerosene oil, one tablespoon turpentine, one tablespoon camphor (if available) and one cup of pure lard. Rub the salve on temples and the upper lip for head colds and on the Adam’s apple and chest for coughs and chest colds. Cover salve on the chest with a flannel cloth.
S TELLA W ALL
Use one part olive oil to one part whiskey and take two tablespoons every four hours until the cough is gone.
M RS . V ERLAN W HITLEY
Mix one cup liquor to one half cup of honey and the juice of one lemon.
D OROTHY B ECK
Add a pinch of soda to a spoonful of sorghum syrup (just enough to make it turn white) and stir and take.
E THEL O WENS
Make tea by putting pine needles and boneset in boiling water. Sweeten with honey.
Or put some ground ginger from the store in a saucer and add a little sugar. Put a little of this mixture on the tongue just before bedtime. It burns the throat and will stop a cough most of the time.
A NONYMOUS
Croup
To prevent croup in children, make a bib from a piece of chamois skin. Melt together some pine pitch and tallow and rub it into bib. Have the child wear it all the time.
D IANE F ORBES
Make a little ball up of a half teaspoon of sugar, a drop of kerosene oil, and about a half teaspoon of Vicks salve. Swallow this.
A NNIE M AE H ENRY
Mix groundhog grease, turpentine, and a little lamp oil together. Dip a rag into the mixture and saturate it. Then lay that on your chest.
W ILMA B EASLEY
Dip the hot ashes right up from a fireplace. Put enough ashes in a half glass of cold water to raise the level of water to the top of the glass. Let it settle until every bit of the ashes settles to the bottom. It’ll be just as clear on top and you take a spoon and spoon off some of the water. That cold water will cool the ashes down by the time it’s ready, so it will be cool enough to drink. I still use that for the grandchildren when I can find the ashes. It’ll knock the croup out just like that.
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Cuts and Sores
Pound a dock root until it’s soft and juice comes out of it. Put enough sweet cream on it to cover it. Rub the mixture on a cut or sore.
L OTTIE S HILLINGBURG
Bathe the sores off real good in warm salty water. Then you get Vaseline or something where the cloth wouldn’t stick and wrap it.
But if a sore got infected then they’d use the walnut poultice (ground walnut leaves and table salt).
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Diarrhea
Boil a lady-slipper plant in water. Strain the water and drink.
G LADYS Q UEEN
Get some soot off the back of the chimney. Put a teaspoon of that soot in a glass of water. Let the soot settle out and drink the clear water.
F LORA Y OUNGBLOOD
Pull up some blackberry roots and clean them and boil them. Strain and drink the water.
F LORENCE C ARPENTER
Diphtheria
Make a little mop to mop the throat by getting three long chicken feathers and stripping most of the little feathers off the quills. Leave a few up on the end. Tie the quills together with thread with those three little bunches of feathers up on one end.
Then take some
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