RE: Tiger Balm

[Guest guest]

Tiger Balm is from the Orient, but its mostly like a liniment kinda stuff.

Its in a Petroleum Gel base so it stays where you put it, and you can use a

tiny amount. Usually a dab on each temple when I was a young and beautiful

hippy lady. Boy, those were YEARS back.

I use bag balm today on my dry feet. Drier because of the diabetes. I hate

the rough skin on them, bag balm works wonders and causes me no problems. I

break out from nearly everything. Thank heaven they took perfume out of TP,

and colors! I still have to be very careful about my laundry, what detergent

I use, and rinse almost everything that touches my skin with white vinegar

in the rinse to get all the soap residue out.

Yes, liquid Geritol, mostly alcohol. My mom had a prescription of something

she called Beef Wine and Iron that the Compounding Pharmacist made up for

her on order from her Dr, it wasn't the over the counter stuff. I bet it had

morphine in it. Knocked her out cold.

I never took Castor Oil internally, but have had many offer me abdominal

compresses of it to supposedly help clear my liver. I just don't trust

ricin, its too dangerous and just plain scary. My mom planted a castor bean

on year, made a real big pretty plant in the garden. Don't know if it ran

off any of the pests. Didn't run us kids off. We ate the raspberries, the

carrots and radishes, the raw corn off the ear in the garden same as always.

Sally

Shines

I never heard of Tiger balm...does it really work for getting rid of

headaches? There is a product that I use. It will probably make you laugh,

but it has been used for years on people even though it is meant for

animals...and that is bag balm. It is used on cow utters to keep them free

of bacteria and to soften them. People use it on areas where they have a

problem with dry skin. The Amish people use it alot. It is great for

chapped lips even though it doesn't have the fragrants of roses. It is a

very old remedy. I remember alot of old products like Cloverine salve

http://www.maststoreonline.com/browse.cfm/4,111.htm which was used as lip

balm but it is almost 98% petrolium jelly and Doan's pills (not good for

someone with liver disease) for back aches

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29961

http://home.intekom.com/pharm/menthola/doans.html

and 's little liver pills for a variety of uses including

headache.

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL038371.html

Maybe other ones here remember old time recipes and medications they used.

Castor oil, I believe is one that no one will forget. That and Geritol.