Do you remember any home remedies that your folks had to fix an illness or condition. Can't sleep--cup of warm milk .

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58. I don't think I could get close enough to that vile stuff to even...

...think about putting in my mouth let alone actually swallowing it.

Maybe people think it works because it smells so bad it seems as if itought to do something, or because it smells so bad it distracts you from other discomforts.

Several years before I retired from my peds NP career, I began to hear mothers claiming that putting Vicks on a baby's feet when they had a cold helped unclog their noses. I thought this sounded like utter bullshit, but, attempting to remain openminded and knowing that I did not know everything, I looked it up. The only thing I found at the time was some woman's blog in which she claimed that, "This works because babies breathe through their feet."

My immediate thought was that anyone so stupid as to believe that should probably not be trusted with a baby.