[Fluffywelshsheep]

I remember the goose grease for your chest, although we only ever had a goose once , I remember the burners for whoping cough or soar throats, not sure what they were called either, a cross between, Fry's balsam, Eucalyptus, Vic and camphor, cause the good old chicken soup, and honey and lemon are still going strong!!

When i was young mum used this on me but the thing was now as a 'balsam oil burner' in our family not sure the proper name

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Warts  - rub with a small piece of raw meat for three morning before getting out of bed, on the third day bury in the garden (must be on a full moon). By the time the meat has rotted the wart will be gone 

Something similar for me but it was a cut in half tatty maybe it down to different areas being from south Wales

[Fluffywelshsheep]

docks on nettle stings like some one has said.

My nan remedy to everything was sweetheart stoat or Macinsons *blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

Even when i was younger i can remember her trying to 'force feed me it'

I'll ask tam his aunties remedies once the football match has finished lol

Patrolieum jelly was a cure all.
A nice cuppa tea sorted many a illness for nan.
infered heat lamp.

Dad's mum was a pint of heavily salted water if he complained of feeling sick, drunk straight down.

[Unicorn]

Yes Rosemary - it was that malt extract, I can't remember the name on the bottle, but it was huge, and I used to be wishing it was empty all the time, cause I hated the stuff, but I was only a wee tot at the time

Also remember my Dad trying to get me to drink raw eggs - couldnt do it though - yuck

We used to have some really smelly stuff that I loved the smell of, to get the sticky bit of those
old fashioned sticky plasters off your leg, I always had cut knees - lived outside either on roller skates
or my bike - scabby knees haha - I think it was a sort of Ether - I know it got banned and you cannot buy
it now.

Eye drops - hated them - we always got styes on our eyes when we were kids, horrid things, everyone at school had them on and off all our childhood - don't see it now - it must have been a deficiency thing or something in the water pre chlorine that caused them maybe???

The sandman too, whatever happened to him - was it cause we slept in drafty places? Cold? Damp?

My daughter never had the sandman visit her and sticky her eyes up all the time   lol 

[Fluffywelshsheep]

eye styes mum used to use her gold ring, rub on it and then it would go away.

I think i used to get them because my hair was wild and untaimable (still is) and hair went in my eyes all the time. Why i wear a hat most of the time lol

[Unicorn]

I had loads of freckles on my nose and face when I was little
and once I was 13 or 14 I wished I could get rid of them.

A friend told me that if you put lemon juice on them, they would fade - so
I smelt of lemon juice for a while - never noticed much difference though