Got an 'old fashioned' cure for an illness, cough, cold etc?

Ron, you said in another thread you take paracetamol and have headaches.  I was on pain killers and they can cause rebound headaches.  Then because of the headache you take another pain killer but that makes it worse etc etc !  Now I rarely take anything and headaches have stopped.

I was taking NSAID's for a while and became another victim, now have gastritis and reflux !

Not really old fashion cures as yet.  For toothache rub on clove oil 

What did the old witch say ?  something like eye of toad, leg of frog.  Not available on NHS . 

Also a victim of reflux Mick, and NSAID's. Amazing how our symptoms/illness problems appear closely matched. Is it an age thing do you think?

I think it has more to do with over-prescribed medicines in a lot of cases!

Back to "old fashioned medicines".  How many people still use Vicks or Friars Balsam to clear their nasal passages?  Still works folks!

I remember my mother giving us a spoonful of malt every morning plus a halibut liver orange tablet and we rarely got colds and sniffles.  I don't think I could take the halibut liver orange again, but bet that many of the omega tablets have something very similar in them today.

Mick you forgot the pacemaker ! ! ! But I always like to wake up and find that I am still breathing....I find that helps a little