Old time medicine

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In the old days we use to make our own medicine most were herbs or roots we always kept a herb garden out back. Before winter time they would gather the herbs or roots they needed and make there medicine for the coming winter flu season for stomach trouble they would fill a whiskey bottle with yellow root and fill the rest with whiskey. For a cold or flu they would use ginseng and cone flower and maybe some yarrow (also called old man tea ) in the whiskey in stead of yellow root. Ginger was the herb of chose for when you couldn't keep food down. Some of the more odd medicine was for the mumps. They would take sheep dung and tie it in a bag around the neck to take down the swelling. Another old remedy for ulcers was to put a drop of turpentine in a spoon of sugar and swallow it turpentine was also put in a cup of sugar water that was kept on the top of the stove and for a sore thought or cough a teaspoon of it was swallowed . Also sassafras tea was drank in the spring to thin the blood as a spring tonic. All that is wrote here is just for historic purposes and not as an endorsement or any thing but entertainment about how people did things in the old days I started this forum so these old ways would not pass a way and I ask everyone to share with us there own old time ways.