Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda
 

Be sure to stock real medicines in your preps. Those home remedies may not be best.
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Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda
 

Home remedies are only useful along with knowledge, and that goes for prescription drugs too...

There are some basic home remedies that are fantastic and will save you a packet of money otherwise spent at the chemist, and there are some disastrous remedies being touted by people who don't know what they're talking about.

For example. Rehydration formula in little packets at the chemist can cost $8.50 or so.

You can essentially make stuff that will do the same job for peanuts as follows:-

1 quart or liter of drinking or boiled Water
5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.)
1/4 teaspoon of Salt
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda (bicarbonate of soda).
2 tablespoons of Sugar

You can premake the mix and keep it in powdered form until required.

Plus eat a banana if you want some potassium.

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I grew up with some mighty strange home remedies. My Parents used to tie potatoes to the bottom of our feet when we had a fever. When we had a respiratory infection they would do a procedure called Venduzos to break up lung congestion. You took 6 short, thick shot glasses set them on fire with alcohol and let them form a seal on the skin on your chest across the lungs. After they took off the shot glasses they would slather you in Vick's vapor rub and layer you in T shirts and pile blankets on you.

My Motherinlaw has some interesting home cures too. My husband recalls having his foot soaked in kerosene when his big toenail feel off. My Motherinlaw uses Lysol for everything including douche.:bear_w00t:

No one seems any worse for the wear after these bizarre home medical procedures. We survived.

Im a big believe in energy and herbal remedies. The worst thing I ever did to my kids when they were sick was full body messages and then I would lay different rocks on their chakra points and try to smooth out rough energy points . I figure they needed something to tell their Therapist when they were grown.

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You can put some baking soda in your coffee (very little) to neutralize the acid that the caffeine produces. Works great.

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one that my mum used on me and i will never use on my kids was massive vitamin C dosage to get rid of a cold even if it did work the side affects were
worse than the cold (s*** through the eye of a needle)

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My mother would try to treat our ailments with a teaspoon of sugar with "Friars Balsam" added... an unusual tasting, pungent concoction.

It was only later as teenagers we found the "POISON" bit emblazoned proudly on the bottle, so I guess it wasn't intended for people to ingest...

Somehow we survived childhood...

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1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 8 ounces of water does magic for acid indigestion.

He prolly took too much baking soda which is still sodium and still dehydrates you as would ordinary table salt if you take too much of it at one time.

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My dad had a great "cure" for colds, coughs, & flu:

Add the juice of 1/2 fresh lemon, two tablespoons of honey, 1 1/2 shots of either whiskey or brandy in a mug of hot water. Drink as rapidly as possible, bundle up in bed under a mountain of quilts, and "sweat it out."

I don't know that it ever cured any of us of anything but after ingesting the "medicine" we somehow didn't care much anymore. :s9:

Of course, these days a parent would go to jail for using this cure on a kid. Go figure.

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What's so "stupid" about these home remedys? The bottoms of your feet are the fastest growing skin areas on your body by far. Twenty percent or more of all excretion from your body is through the skin. "Drawing" toxins out with solvent soaks or potatoe poltices there on the soles of the feet, is just common sense. "Vicks"' ecaliptis tree[sp?]oil is antiviral and antibiotic to the MAX! And so is balsum fir oil!!! The "pill-PUSHERS" just can't patent these effective natural cures and make their bigbucks off them, so of course they are "poison" to their bottom line.

Induceing a fever is very anti-viral. This is how your body kills virus'!!!