Old Time Cures & Remedies

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Note:  These are just for fun!  While these were actually published in old books, we do not recommend that you try them!  They actually could be dangerous!

A sick chum, 1908.

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Warts (Warts were obviously a problem, because there are lots of these.)

• Make a paste of baking soda and spirits of camphor and apply every night. Cover with a bandage. Remove in morning. Removes all kinds of warts, even stubborn planter's warts that resist every "medical" treatment. This is from another Edgar Cayce reading.

• Rub the wart with a rock.  Put the rock in a tobacco sack and throw it over your left shoulder.

• Rub the wart with a piece of bacon that has been stolen from a neighbor.

• Catch a frog and rub him on the wart

• Walk out into the road after dark when you can see the moon.  Run around three times and spit over your right shoulder.

• Take a tick from a dog and let the tick bit the wart.  In two or three days the wart should be gone.  Then put the tick back on the dog.  

• Cut bark from a tree and rub it on the warts.  Then tape the bark back on the tree. By the time it grows on again, the warts should have gone.

• Rub fatback on your warts and give it to a dog. If he eats the fat back, the warts will go away

• Tie a horse hair around each wart and within a week all the warts will fall off

• Rub fatback over the warts and throw it over your left shoulder. Don’t look to see where it goes.  If an animal eats the fatback, your warts will disappear.

• Apply chalk to warts; with same piece of chalk mark X over the oven door for each wart.  As the chalk burns off, the warts will disappear.

• Bathe warts occasionally for a week or so in water in which potatoes have been boiled.

• When you go to church, make the sign of the cross over your warts three times.

• Light a match , let it burn a little, then blow it out, touch the burnt end to wart and get someone to hid the match

• Put butter on wart and have a cat lick it.

• Warts can be cured by touching each one with a piece of string and then tying knots in the string — one knot for each wart.  The string is buried in the ground, and when the string rots the warts disappear.

• Another cure for warts is the bathe them in water found in a depression in a rock, at the same time saying “In the name of the Father, son, and Holy Ghost.”  This only works if you come across such a rock accidentally — it’s no good if you go out looking for the rock.

• Apply snail to warts.

Whooping Cough

• Put some hair from the person on a piece of bread outside the kitchen door where the moon can shine on it.  If a dog comes along and eats it, the cough will be cured in five days.
• Grab hold of a table leg when coughing.
• Place a pan of fresh chicken droppings under the bed.

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Note:  These are just for fun!  While these were actually published in old books, we do not recommend that you try them!  They actually could be dangerous!

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