[Closed] Odd cures for stuff...

I'm sure if this is strange or not but I swear that I've cured tonsillitis with tequila, twice. Took quite a lot of it mind...

Ground ginger, coke and rum. Mixed, heated and necked to help cure a head cold. Works (for me) everytime.

Saying out loud, "everyone listed to my next hiccup" works 9/10 times.

Got a cold? Smash it to shit with some Barbados cherry juice. One pint and, a la Barry Scott, the cold is gone.

(Also works for hangovers!)

I had a small wart on my hand for a good 30 years, a drop of tea tree oil every night and now its gone. My hand is odd to look at with it being normal now.

Also a small piece of duct tape stuck on a wart gets rid too (6 days on 1 day off and repeat).

So- drinking alcohol infused tea-tree oil will cure every/ anything. 😉

I worked with an old bricklayer years ago...and he told me how he cured his arthritis in his shoulder.......stinging nettles!,

Every week he would whack his shoulder with it........worth a try!!,

Reminded of the first 20 seconds of this:

@david47

You mean a mouth ulcer?

I just dilute some table salt in some warm water and swish the solution in my mouth.
It's never failed.

Whatever you do, don't swallow the solution!

My dad swears by toothpaste for athlete's foot.
Gone in a couple of days.
Don't know what possessed him to try that one out.

Mouth ulcers - take Vit B.

Onions and garlic keep away the colds.

I thought tooth paste only got rid of love bites?

For hangovers, 1 fresh lemon squeezed into a glass, down it in one.

I had a small wart on my hand for a good 30 years, a drop of tea tree oil every night and now its gone. My hand is odd to look at with it being normal now.

Every night for 30yrs? Not a quick cure then...

Ha, no about 2 to 3 weeks...

They used to say that bashing a wart with a bible would cure it. I had one on the top of my finger for a couple of years, then accidentally slammed a car door on that finger tip. The wart disappeared (not long after the fingernail...)

It wasn't a pope-mobile, but I think it's proof positive that a good thwack encourages the wart to look elsewhere for a safe home.

Those initial signs of a sore throat?

Chew a little bit of fresh garlic, 2 very small pieces (no more totalling 1/4 clove).

Works a treat. Takes a bit of getting used to mind you.

I had warts for years as a kid. Twelve on my hands in total. Was advised to pee on them, so I tried it once. Left it for a short time then washed my hands.

They all went within a couple of weeks.

Personally I suspect it was coincidence or the power of suggestion. Either way, it worked!

Bear the reason that works is because no more strangers will snog you in a club and infect you with their mouth grot if you smell of fresh garlic 😀

Aftershave dries up inflamed spots (zits). And fast.

I eat marmite if I get a painful mouth ulcer - something about a vitamin deficiency I read?
My son (5th year med student) however, recently told me this is nonsense.

If I feel a cold coming on, I eat lots of garlic. And if the cold has already set in - then I boil up some lemons and drink it as much as possible. My son also thinks this remedy is nonsense too ...

But they work for me ... placebo maybe??

flap_jack - Member
They used to say that bashing a wart with a bible would cure it.

The old wives remedy for 'curing' a ganglion cyst was to bash it with a bible.
Basically a heavy flat object that wasn't likely to damage bone was efficient to burst the cyst.
A wart however has roots, so hitting it will never cure it I would guess.

Curly Dock for Nettle stings.
Usually find it growing next to the Nettles,use some spit and rub it on the stings. 🙂

BillMC - Member
Onions and garlic keep away the colds.

Got piles? Nitromors and a wire brush.

I am not a doctor.

Curly Dock for Nettle stings.
Usually find it growing next to the Nettles,use some spit and rub it on the stings.

The dock leaf isn't really relevant, it's the rubbing or the sting that helps, rather than what you rub it with.

Warts are strange, they're caused by a virus, so can't be 'cured' by a cream or anything, what the creams and stuff do is irritate the area causing your body to 'see' the wart and take action as an immune response. Constant applcation of gaffer tape causes a little irritation, kicking the body's defense mode into action. So does a dab of superglue over the site for a few days. The chemist creams and such contain Salcilic acid which is similarly irritating. Go Body!

Heaped teaspoon of marmalade (with rind) to cure hiccups.

Warts are strange, they're caused by a virus, so can't be 'cured' by a cream or anything, what the creams and stuff do is irritate the area causing your body to 'see' the wart and take action as an immune response.

Yeah, I thought I'd found the cure in banana skin held on by gaffa tape but, as you point out, all I did was leave a piece of rotting fruit on my flesh and could've avoided the wretched thing by simply using gaffa tape or similar.

Our 'farm' cure for infants Whooping cough -Slow toasted dead mouse, powdered and sprinkled onto warm milk - My old sister swears it works(ed). ❓

Works on hot chicks too.

You must be right as I'm married to one.

Garlic chicken?

Our 'farm' cure for infants Whooping cough -Slow toasted dead mouse, powdered and sprinkled onto warm milk - My old sister swears it works(ed).

I think I'd rather have the whooping cough.

Saying out loud, "everyone listed to my next hiccup" works 9/10 times.

I've cured other peoples hiccups by offering to buy their next hiccup for £50 and holding the money in front of them, also works about 9 times out of 10 so it can sometimes be a bit of a pricy strategy

Tea Tree oil cured blood poisoning in my foot.

TCP cures all mouth problems......and when that throat tingle comes before a cold...you need TCP.

I am a bit like the windex bloke from Big Fat Greek Wedding..when it comes to TCP.

To my shock and horror, I still had the ulsars this morning... And worse than that I had a few rubbish off''s in the Surrey hills on the wet roots 🙁 definite you not a good cure 🙁 well apart from the bit about the X factor !