Old wives/traditional remedies. Any good?

[mustang1]

Let your baby cry itself to sleep. Don't let the baby control you.

My take: what a load of .....

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Kiss it better.
Saliva holds someting that cleans and heals.

How many times have you tried that line?

 

[Petrichorwheels]

My wife believes that your own urine has special properties. Put it on cuts and abrasions, swill it around your mouth for gum ailments or even drink it .

Am intrigued. Why does it have to be your own?

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Arnica cream or tea for bruises. very good.

Have no idea about the efficacy of arnica. In my entire life only ever remember it coming up once. Some woman enticed me into a conversation about bum thrashing and suggested that the arnica would be good afterwards. Have no idea - didn',t road test either activity or substance with her.

What does the arnica actually do?

What the fark is arnica?

 

[DRM]

Am intrigued. Why does it have to be your own?

You could try someone else’s and report back for us if you don’t mind

 

[Petrichorwheels]

You could try someone else’s and report back for us if you don’t mind

I confess to cyclechat that have never tried my own, and won't be, so am afraid there will be no control. As for any other experiments in this arena, maybe best to draw a veil/tarp over them.

 

[DRM]

I confess to cyclechat that have never tried my own, and won't be, so am afraid there will be no control. As for any other experiments in this arena, maybe best to draw a veil/tarp over them.

To be fair, Bear Grylls seem to enjoy this particular tipple

 

[Petrichorwheels]

To be fair, Bear Grylls seem to enjoy this particular tipple

Well you live and learn. Is he something to do with the scouts? Was never like this in my day

 

[DRM]

Makes you speculate what Putin does.

I think he definitely doesn’t touch door knobs and has a personal food taster, I’ll wager he stays away from upstairs windows too, especially the really high ones!

 

[Bazzer]

When pregnant with child 1, Mrs B suffered morning sickness quite badly. We went to a herbalist in Chinatown, Manchester for help. The concoction she produced smelled fowl when boiled, but it worked. We don't know if it was psychological, coincidence, or an actual effect, but it worked.
When we were in Egypt some years ago, I got an (let's be polite) an "upset stomach". The Dr prescribed leaving my shirt on for 5 minutes when going into our air-conditioned room and 7Up! The former he said because the cold of the air con after the heat of outside caused the body to react to the much cooler air, whereas leaving a shirt on allowed the body to cool down a little more gradually. The latter he said had a different chemical content to Coke or the outwardly more similar Sprite, which would help settle things down. A couple of days later I was back to normal.

 

[DRM]

Well you live and learn. Is he something to do with the scouts? Was never like this in my day

Chief Scout I believe, well he was years ago when I was involved, was quite a controversial appointment back in the day, I think he still is in the job

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Chief Scout I believe, well he was years ago when I was involved, was quite a controversial appointment back in the day, I think he still is in the job

What would baden powell have made of this?
Mind you he was a notorious racist.
So power to the piss drinkers.

 

[DRM]

What would baden powell have made of this?
Mind you he was a notorious racist.
So power to the piss drinkers.

Scouting for boys is something of an interesting read, very much of it’s time, it reads more like a Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketch

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Scouting for boys is something of an interesting read, very much of it’s time, it reads more like a Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketch

There was an ancient bp book i remember finding in the school library and skim reading. Is that the book that cautions in suitably decorous language good enough for our mods about the perils of masturbation?

 

[Cycleops]

When pregnant with child 1, Mrs B suffered morning sickness quite badly. We went to a herbalist in Chinatown, Manchester for help. The concoction she produced smelled foil when boiled, but it worked. We don't know if it was psychological, coincidence, or an actual effect, but it worked.
When we were in Egypt some years ago, I got an (let's be polite) an "upset stomach". The Dr prescribed leaving my shirt on for 5 minutes when going into our air-conditioned room and 7Up! The former he said because the cold of the air con after the heat of outside caused the body to react to the much cooler air, whereas leaving a shirt on allowed the body to cool down a little more gradually. The latter he said had a different chemical content to Coke or the outwardly more similar Sprite, which would help settle things down. A couple of days later I was back to normal.

Given the foregoing discussion on urine as a remedy I thought when mentioned your shirt I thought that may have been a typo