Say it aint so

Has anyone ever really noticed there are few certain products that medicine cannot improve on,and they are usualy located right in your own home. My grandma was talking with me yesterday and this topic was brought up when I had told her I had a canker sore.

Back then before there were antobiotics to cure people of their sickness, and pain medicine to take away their pain, they delt with it old fashion way, grin and bear it.

But these 3 things,were always around and commonly used and still are today.

1-Baking Soda
2- Aspirin
3-Alcohol


Aspirin couldn't be found in the pill form like it is now. Where it was found was the bark and the leaves of the willow tree. To get its full effect,the bark or the leaves were soaked in water and the person who was suffering would drink it.
Aspirin also has an antiplatelet, or "anti-clotting", effect and is used in long-term, low doses to prevent heart attacks, strokes and blood clot formation in people at high risk for developing blood clots.[1] It has also been established that low doses of aspirin may be given immediately after a heart attack to reduce the risk of another heart attack or of the death of cardiac tissue


Didnt know that did you.

Baking Soda- I use it to treat my canker sores in my mouth when I have them, it usualy works as a counteract to prevent the spreading of acid to other parts of your mouth ,forming more sores. It also helps the acid in the wound diminish.

Alcohol- Not just a item you can drink now today to get a buzz off of or get drunk. It served a purpose before people started abusing the power to drink it.

Alcohol was used in medicinal purposes when there wasnt anything else to help cope with the pain.Like when someone had been bitten by a snake or when bones needed to be set.

Now you will see most alcohol that is used for medicinal purposes in cough syrups and elixirs,not the average bottle of whiskey or rum anymore. That is so outdated. But for most people who are non alcoholic drinkers because of their religion. Will only use alcohol as medicinal purposes,but still that might not happen.