Re: Grandma's Remedies
Originally Posted by
Puddle Duck
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Dad would put his head over a bowl of steaming water and cover his head with a towel. This was for a cold I think but don't know what was in the water. It had a smell to it.
I believe they used Friars Balsam to inhale in the steam.
I had a nasty accident doing that one day.
I was a few days off my 13th birthday, and Mum had made this bowl of steaming stuff for my cold and bunged up nose.
I had the towel over my head, and when I had finished, I pulled the towel back not knowing it was under the edge of the bowl - until it was too late.
I pulled the bowl of scalding water into my lap.
I remember screaming, and Mum rushing in and pulling my thick woolly stockings off, and seeing my skin come off with them!
Luckily it missed my 'privates' - phew - but I was burned down one thigh from my knicker leg almost down to my knee.
Dad had to come home from work to take me to hospital.
Luckily, I was only left with a scar about 1" big, and even that has faded now.
I never used that darn stuff again.