- To remove difficult stains such as iodine, crush a Vitamin C tablet, and mix with water to make a little thicker than paste rub onto stain and wipe off.
- Half teaspoon of honey for a hacking cough.
- To crush pills, use 2 identical spoons. Put the pill in the bottom one and crush with the top one.
- To get kids to take pills, crush them and mix with food they enjoy such as apple sauce, peanut butter sandwiches, etc.
- For nausea eat or suck on either ginger, barley sugar, coke syrup or lemons.
- For insect bites and bee stings immediately use Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer. Make into a paste and apply to bite.
- Chocolate syrup (or other forms) will hide bitter tastes.
- Apple cider vinegar can be used directly on sunburns to relieve the pain and reduce the likelihood of peeling.
- It can also be applied directly to minor cuts as an antibiotic treatment.
- Emu oil, and/ or aloe vera are also good or burns.
- Duct tape can be kept on warts for two weeks to kill them.
- Take thiamine chloride (Vitamin B) half hour before being exposed to prevent mosquito bites.
- Eating a banana after taking pills will help to swallow them.
- Clove oil applied to tooth or gums can reduce toothaches.
- Progesterone can eliminate certain types of migraine headaches.
- It also can relieve PMS symptoms.
- Warm milk still works for insomnia (don’t add chocolate!)
- Frozen vegetables make great ice packs for injuries.
- Disposable diapers/ sanitary napkins make great compresses for bleeding.
- How to put eye drops in an angry gorillas eyes? Use a squirt gun.
- What flavour should you make a frogs medicine? Grasshopper flavour.
- Medicine can be put in lollypops to have a child keep it in their mouth longer.
- You must have an attitude of some sort. Positive ones are just more fun.
- Depressed? Go learn a new activity.
- 15 minute naps at the right times can refresh like 2 hours of sleep.
- In survival situations, frogs are the most abundant food source.
- Nothing is more lasting than family.
- Swinging hands back and forth can eliminate some types of headaches.
- Caught early enough, zinc can cure a cold.
- Epsom salt baths can help dry up poison oak rashes.
