Home Remedies - continued

Your post about kerosene could be misleading. It was not kerosene, but COAL OIL. Coal oil was used as an internal and topical home remedy as a general cure-all for myriad of ailments including coughs, flu, cuts, abrasions and snake bites. It could be added to sugar to mask the taste.

It would clot blood immediately.

My mother used it for everything. My brother got bit by a copper head snake and we didn't have a car or a way to get him to the hospital. Mother put his foot into a wash pan filled with coal oil and the oil turned green. You could actually see the poison being sucked out in a green streak.

I am sure COAL OIL saved our lives many times.

I also hated Castor Oil, three 6's or 666. It was a yellow liquid that was bitter. I think it was quinine. I took Airadol-A vitamins but loved that. Also, I loved Hadacol, but they took it off the market when I was 9.

Remember Syrup of Black Draught. YUK!!!

I think kerosene was more refined than coal oil and had an additive of some kind. I just know kerosene would have killed us as much as we took.

I can walk a little now without it killing me. I wish I had some coal oil. I would soak my foot in it.
Maxine