Cure for Sciatica
Two ounces tartaric acid, four ounces Epsom salts, two ounces citrate of magnesia, two ounces baking soda, two ounces cream tartar, six ounces icing sugar; One teaspoonful to a glass of water.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
To Destroy a Wart
Wet frequently with strong soda (baking) water. Touched two or three times a day with castor oil will hurry the process.
Source: Book of Recipes, Daughters of the American Revolution, Genesee Chapter
Indigestion
Hot water. Soda mints. Aromatic spirit of ammonia. Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda). Hot applications to the stomach.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
To Remove the Odor of Onions
Fill with cold water kettles and sauce pans in which they have been cooked adding a tablespoonful of bread soda and the same of ammonia. Let stand on the stove until it boils. Then wash in hot suds and rinse well. A pudding or bean pot, treated in this way, will wash easily. Wood ashes in the water will have the same effect.
Source: Things Mother Used To Make, L.M. Gurney
To Cure a Sting of a Bee or Wasp
Bind on common baking soda, dampened with water. Or mix common earth with water to about the consistency of mud.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
For Headache
For headache, drink a cup of strong black tea, in which has been squeezed the juice of a lemon. Half a teaspoon of common baking soda dissolved in hot water is also good.
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
Burns and Scalds
A piece of cotton wadding, spread with butter or sweet oil, and bound on the burn instantly, will draw out the pain without leaving a scar; also a handful of flour, bound on instantly, will prevent blistering. The object is to entirely exclude the air from the part affected. Some use common baking-soda, dry or wet, often giving instant relief, withdrawing the heat and pain. Another valuable remedy is to beat the yellow of an egg into linseed oil, and apply it with a feather on the injured part frequently. It will afford ready relief and heals with great rapidity. Some recommend the white part of the egg, which is very cooling and soothing, and soon allays the smarting pain. It is the exposure of the part coming in contact with the air that gives the extreme discomfort experienced from ordinary afflictions of this kind, and anything which excludes air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Stings, an Old, Tried Canadian Remedy for
“For the bee sting I put soda on and dampen it with honey.” An old-time remedy and seems to do the work. Soda is an antiseptic and cleansing remedy. If no honey at hand, dampen soda with water.
Source: Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada, T. J. Ritter
Heartburn, Soda a Popular Remedy for
“One-half teaspoonful soda in glass of water. Everybody uses this in the neighborhood.”
Source: Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada, T. J. Ritter
News: ‘Suspicious powder’ was herbal remedy
“A suspicious package which caused alarm at a Post Office depot in Preston turned out to be a herbal remedy, police have said.
Staff alerted police after they found a sealed plastic bag with pink powder in it at the Royal Mail Delivery Office in Christian Road.”
Full story: Fleetwood Today, 8h February 2008
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