home remedies you would NEVER try

3 Doing some research today and found a good one for vaginal yeast infections-Insert a fresh clove of garlic wrapped in cheese cloth....I don't think so!
A former neighbor would wipe her baby boy's faces with their wet diaper to prevent acne when they got older.They never did have a zit but then again she and her husband both had very nice complexions.
Have you heard/seen any wacky home remedies to share?
There are people n my family who have done the wet diaper to prevent acne, have not tried it myself though I have also been told to put spit on my sons feet when he has a cold. No idea on the reasoning behind that one

I've heard eating yogurt can help prevent yeast infections. I've also heard that INSERTING yogurt can treat an existing yeast infection...I don't think I want to know if that one's true or not...*clever fruit-on-the-bottom joke here*

Quote from teeniebertI've heard eating yogurt can help prevent yeast infections. I've also heard that INSERTING yogurt can treat an existing yeast infection...I don't think I want to know if that one's true or not...*clever fruit-on-the-bottom joke here*

Boiling an umbilical cord stump and giving baby the cord "tea", for babys first cold.No thanks Grandma.

We used to have yougurt "tampons" at the hosptial I worked at. We used tampons with plastic applicators, took the tampon out, filled them with plain yougurt and froze them. Apparently they worked well...one of the docs even used prophylacticly for females on a lot of antibiotics. Weird!We also used shredded potatoes for hemorrhoids and cabbage leaves to help with sore nipples.A lot of home remedies actually work...but some seem too bizzare to try!

One of my friends actually used OxyClean to get rid of masticytis! YIKES!

Quote from cotjockeyWe used to have yougurt "tampons" at the hosptial I worked at. We used tampons with plastic applicators, took the tampon out, filled them with plain yougurt and froze them. Apparently they worked well...one of the docs even used prophylacticly for females on a lot of antibiotics. Weird!We also used shredded potatoes for hemorrhoids and cabbage leaves to help with sore nipples.A lot of home remedies actually work...but some seem too bizzare to try!

From tv: a guy came into a hospital because the concrete cast he had put on himself was becoming too painful but not until it had pretty thoroughly hardened. He had fairly severe alkaline burns under the cement.

Quote from cotjockeyWe used to have yougurt "tampons" at the hosptial I worked at. We used tampons with plastic applicators, took the tampon out, filled them with plain yougurt and froze them. Apparently they worked well...one of the docs even used prophylacticly for females on a lot of antibiotics. Weird!We also used shredded potatoes for hemorrhoids and cabbage leaves to help with sore nipples.A lot of home remedies actually work...but some seem too bizzare to try!

When I was a kid, I was told that eating ants is good for your eyes. lol

Omg, I live in the south and there are a TON of "home remedies" I've heard of. Now being put on the spot, the only one I can remember is putting hot black rocks in a childs ears to cure an ear infection. As I think of more of them I will post them. There are sooo many down here!

My grandmother insists that drinking beer will increase a mother's milk production. My sister actually took her up on the advice! I don't drink and I didn't think that "increased milk production" was a good enough reason start.My grandmother & mother believe that the only drugs ever needed are penicillin, tylenol, and Valium. I know the cabbage leaves work. I recall the "frozen yogurt" tampon from an article in Cosmopolitan a few years ago.