Folk remedies are homeopathic health salves that are passed down from one generation to the next. From chicken soup for cold relief to hot tea for a sore throat, these natural alternatives to ...

Like the Black Crowe’s “Remedy, and its line, I need a remedy”, folks of yesteryear needed remedies and they came up with them. We call their aspiring cures “Folk Medicine.” Once again I’m writing ...

a story about how Norwegian home remedies were used to help save a young immigrant from losing his foot. The year was 1863. Mikkel Lokkensgaard was climbing into the attic of the family's cabin in ...

Interest in plant-based wound treatments has grown due to traditional method limitations, antimicrobial resistance, and the ...

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We’ve all heard about — or tried! — folk remedies. And some of them work: Chicken soup, we’re looking at you and your uncanny ability to make us feel better when we’re sniffling and sneezing! Others, ...

Robin started writing down folk cures as she heard of them. And she had her grandmother's remedy book from the late 1800s. She eventually compiled them into a book published in 2000 by the Los Islenos ...

Feeding bread to a donkey to treat whooping cough, rubbing a black snail on a wart and impaling it on a thorn are two of the hundreds of remarkable rural Irish remedies once believed to cure ailments.

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

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The other morning I woke up with one eye red and swollen and giving me a purple fit, so I went to the doctor, and he said I had a sty working. A sty? This is the first one I've had since I was a ...

For 34 years Dr. Joseph L. Miller, 59, of small Thomas, W. Va. has been mending coal miners, delivering their women, treating their families. The hillbillies in turn have taught him their folk ...