Re: Sulfur and Cream of Tartar?

[Guest guest]

Sounds like it works pretty well to repel people...don't know about the insects.  There is a homeopathic remedy for boils/cysts.  I think it is silicea (sp?)Mara BTW- here is an interesting tidbit I unearthed- people used to eat these pills or even chew matchheads for the sulfur to repel insects. Now I wonder if taking DMSO will do it? Daddybob

[Guest guest]

I dunno, but I've noticed that I haven't been bothered much by

mosquitos for a few years, now.

Chuck

Celibacy is *NOT* hereditary.

> BTW- here is an interesting tidbit I unearthed- people used to eat these

> pills or even chew matchheads for the sulfur to repel insects. Now I

> wonder

> if taking DMSO will do it?

>

> Daddybob

[Guest guest]

Yes Mara, Silicea is a good remedy to expel "matter" from boils and cysts, abscesses and infections as is Gunpowder, prepared homeopathically - which of course also contains sulphur and apparently treats poison ivy and primula rashes, as well as wound infections. I have use it with great results.

Jane

Re: Sulfur and Cream of Tartar?

Sounds like it works pretty well to repel people...don't know about the insects.

There is a homeopathic remedy for boils/cysts. I think it is silicea (sp?)

Mara

BTW- here is an interesting tidbit I unearthed- people used to eat thesepills or even chew matchheads for the sulfur to repel insects. Now I wonderif taking DMSO will do it?Daddybob

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[Guest guest]

Well, now that I think about it maybe it does.

The other day I felt a sting on the back of my leg and I noticed a tick crawling

in the same vicinity. At the time I thought WOW that is the first time that has

ever happened...a tick going to bite me and he doesn't like my taste...usually

they latch on for dear life but not that time. I thought it was rather strange

but could not think why the tick reacted that way but maybe it is the topical

DMSO or the fact I've been ingesting it every now and then...hum?

Sandy

>

> Right now I'm chasing down an old-time remedy for boils and cysts, known as

> Sulfur and Cream of Tartar or Cream of Tartar and Sulfur

> wafers/pills/tablets. Anybody know anything about this? Googling it so far

> has only turned up sites where people are asking about it and lamenting how

> they can't find it.

>

> Anyway to make your own?

>

> OR-

>

> Are DMSO and MSM the modern equivalent? Is there some way to use Cream of

> Tartar along with either to accomplish the same task?

>

> BTW- here is an interesting tidbit I unearthed- people used to eat these

> pills or even chew matchheads for the sulfur to repel insects. Now I wonder

> if taking DMSO will do it?

>

> Daddybob

>

[Guest guest]

Lurking in this rather eclectic home 'pharmacy' of mine is a bottle full of

powder called Flowers of Sulfur (sulphur?).

I cannot remember the reason why I tracked down this stuff (whatever it was

seemed like a very good one at the time!)

It is apparently an old time remedy for all sorts of problems.

I either found it at a local drugstore (best guess), or possibly online.

If you could fnd this, I'm wondering if it could be mixed with some Cream of

Tartar?

Meanwhile, the suggestion for homeopathic silica/silicea is an excellent one.

And then there's my favorite remedy for stuff like this----clay poultices!

Someone mentioned Icthammomol? I just did a flashback to the age of 9. I had a

boil and my mother packed it with " black stuff " ---had to be the icthammomol and

the thing came to a head and drained.

That's still around.

Sharon

> Right now I'm chasing down an old-time remedy for boils and cysts, known as

> Sulfur and Cream of Tartar or Cream of Tartar and Sulfur

> wafers/pills/tablets. Anybody know anything about this? Googling it so far

> has only turned up sites where people are asking about it and lamenting how

> they can't find it.

>

> Anyway to make your own?

>

> Daddybob

[Guest R. Blankenship]

I remember these. Our doctor that my mother took us to told her to get them and give them to my brother for fever blisters. They really worked.

[Guest Grandmac]

I’m trying to find the sulfur cream of tartar tablets too. My brother and I used to have boils when we were young, mother would give this to us. I’m having them again at age 67! Will the silicea work the same. I can’t find the sulfur cream of tartar tablets anywhere.