Herbal Remedies and other things I learned on the Tasse Cafe Radio Program Friday:
1. Cod liver oil is la crème de fouin(?) morue
2. Put old time cane syrup and castor oil in the ear sealed with cotton for earache (also, heat up table salt and put it in a sock, place on ear, or, blow smoke in ear, seal.)
2b. Vapo-rub is used by the Creoles of Evangeline Parish as a cure-all. Put "Vic-salve" on a cotton ball in the ear for earache.
3. On est après s'amuser avec les "uremède". We are having a good time with remedies. (In Evangeline Parish, the first syllable is sometimes inverse.)
4. Castor oil is l'huile à purger.
5. Camphor (du camphre) is put in a pint bottle with water and left to develop and then "served" with a little sugar and water in a glass and it treated "inflamation" fever, and any ole ailment for old and young. I think the camphor she spoke of was a part (root or bark) of the camphor tree (?)
6. Robins like to roost in the les arbres camphré and eat the camphor berries.
7. For a bad cold or asthma take a spoonful of sugar and kerosene. Warning: Do not do this while smoking.
8. Mash an aspirin, mix with "Vic-Salve" and honey in a coffee cup, heat by the pilot light. Every time you cough, pop you a spoonful.
9. For sore throat, beat a raw egg yolk with 1/2 cup of sugar until is becomes white. Eat dat.
10. Old Indian Remedy? Take the skin of a gizzard, wash it and dry it. Doc Veillion's grandmother used to keep them in a tin on top of her garde-manger. Make a tea with the peau de gésier (gi-gi?) for nausea during virus or pregnancy.
11. Mix whiskey, aspirin, Vic-Salve and honey, boil it on the stove. Make the kids drink it!
12. For tonsillitis, go to the woods and find a red oak tree. Take the root or the bark, make a tea with it and gargle with it for seven days.
13. Toothache tree- boil the bark, apply to itch from poison ivy. Apply bark directly to tooth, or make an infusion to kill tooth pain.
14. Mamou tea. Take 9 (I have heard 3, 5, 7, or 9- odd number) red Mamou seeds. Smash them good good and boil them. Mix the tea with honey, lemon and sometimes whiskey. Drink hot. This will break up chest congestion.
15. For tallow bumps or infected sores, take ashes out of the fireplace, mix it with some Vic-Salve, heat it up, stick it in between two cloths. Apply to sore. It will draw the infection out.
16. Wasp stings- apply spider webs or moistened tabacco to the sting. It will draw the poison out.
17. C'est joli de voir comment on a bien enjoy ça. (It's pretty to see how we really enjoy that (talking about remedy))
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