Frontier / pioneer remedies

[Forty Rod]

My daughter is looking for home remedies that folks would have used in frontier /pioneer days.  You know, the “potato against the fevered part and then bury it by moonlight” sort of thing.

What did people do if there weren’t any doctors around and no one with real medical knowledge?

I appreciate any help.

[litl rooster]

  For theives, murders  and other no accounts....They got a rope.........In most cases no more problem

[Delmonico]

I'll, dig, the Foxfire books has a bunch in one or more of the volumes. 

One I do know right off hand is from the natives, the root of the purple cone flower was made into tonics to resist colds and other sickness.

The yuppie herb folks act like they discovered it, course they got to use the taxinonical name cause purple cone flower sounds to.....well you know.  They call it Echinachia (sp)

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[Ozark Tracker]

Fourty,  I used to work with a fellar,  that had got a book from his mother that had got it from who knows where,  it was just full of the kind of things yer looking for,  I tried to find a newer version once at the book store,  nobdy could find anything about that particular book.

I don't remember the name, but it was leather covered and about 2 inches wide and looked to be well over a hundred years old then.

and it also had all  the old uses of every plant.

[Trinity]

Distilled corn liquor is good for rheumatism.  So I hear.

[litl rooster]

Distilled corn liquor is good for rheumatism.  So I hear.

Mines been actin' up you have enny squezzins available?  Somethin in a 100 proof

[Trinity]

C'mon over! 

[Ozark Tracker]

I got a friend lives down the road, goes out and digs snakeroot every year, dries it, grinds it fine and then mixes  it with a little liquor and bottles it in little bitty bottles,  uses it for colds, fever, stings, bites almost any ailment,  that stuff will knock ya on yer butt.  makes ya ferget what the ailment was.

[litl rooster]

I got a friend lives down the road, goes out and digs snakeroot every year, dries it, grinds it fine and then mixes  it with a little liquor and bottles it in little bitty bottles,  uses it for colds, fever, stings, bites almost any ailment,  that stuff will knock ya on yer butt.  makes ya ferget what the ailment was.

Snakeoil............Kinda like that stuff Slim and Delmonico pedal out of the back of the Wagon

[Ozark Tracker]

probably the same stuff,,   they's people come from as far as Ft. Smith to pick up a few bottles to have on hand.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Snakeoil............Kinda like that stuff Slim and Delmonico pedal out of the back of the Wagon

Since when?!?! Del is keepin' it from me agin. He don't wanna give me my share of the profits agin. 

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

We always use a mud pack on bee stings.

Slim

[Ozark Tracker]

Stings and Bites,   you might get a chaw of tobacco, slapped on it and tied on,  that chaw has to be fresh outa a mouth.

[litl rooster]

Since when?!?! Del is keepin' it from me agin. He don't wanna give me my share of the profits agin. 

Slim

Piso's  (sp?)

[Camille Eonich]

Ain't there a thread just like this in the Longbranch?  Any reason why they shouldn't be merged?

[Silver Creek Slim]

And in the Historical Society.  Forty likes to cover all bases.

Slim

[Forty Rod]

I never know who's readin' what or where.  How and why are on their own.

[litl rooster]

And in the Historical Society.  Forty likes to cover all bases.

Slim

You mean to say he was wanting real information from us over here in Tall Tales

[Trinity]

He's asked the wrong crew!

[Silver Creek Slim]

 

Slim