Grease me up and push onions in my ears!

I had a very uneventful childhood as far as anything strange or unusual or cool so I have nothing to share...I haven't heard of anything like this....sorry to bore you with my non-answer....

That sounds more like punishment than a illnss prevention!!! lol Its crazy to hear what things people did back in the 20's an 30's and they actually believed they worked - well insisted they worked. I havent heard or been exposed to any unusual disease prevention methods!! I think I must have been wrapped in cotton wool or something!!!

I have heard stories but totally different then that. I don't think I would like to be greased up..oiled up maybe..but definitely not greased, and I would pass on the onions even though I love them I wouldn't want them in my ears..My dad once said he had a cold and his mom bathed him in a bath of hot boiled onions and their juices...and hot mustard packs and he to do that for days..I am so glad for the invention of working medications...the strangest I do is apple cider vinger and honey..1/4 cup of that every four to six hours would help alot and also garlic chewed..makes everyone stay away.. on the good side you don't have to worry about Vampires biting you.. or anything getting close to you.

I haven't heard about this one yet. I'm not even sure of such customs that my previous generations followed.....I'm sure there were some wierd ones like this one. But my grandmother always believed that kids built up their immunity by being exposed to all sorts of germs early on...lol. Worked out well for us since we were allowed to do a lot of things that other kids weren't allowed to do due to the changes in weather.

None really and I certainly do not fancy that one lol My Grandmother (who brought me up the first 9 years of my Life) used to make sure I was warm believe me it was Tights Trousers Vest Big woolly Jumper Big Coat scarf hat gloves most of the time I was to warm, but she would hear none of it. I guess that had something to do with being born with Chronic Bronchitias lol as she always tried to avoid me getting Ill with that but as I was so warm as soon as I was out of Sight I would take of the Hat (which I hated) take of the Scarf and undo my big Coat, so guess what ...... yep you guessed right and my Grandmother never found out why I was still always sick with them lol xx

And, they walked around all winter with onions and goose grease on them? Yuck! The only nasty thing I can think of is being given Castor oil, or cod liver oil, and I don't even remember why we might have been given either. There are some things you'd just rather block from the memory, I guess.*L*

i have heard of this myth from my grannie but thankfully,i never had to follow it(i was sort of rebel in those times,which came handy in such cases)one popular mythwhich my mom used to caution me was (I bet most people here have been told, at one time or another), not to go out with wet or damp hair, or to wrap up warm so you don’t catch cold. In fact, the body temperature (or ambient temperature) makes no difference at all. You catch a cold when you come into contact with the cold virus - once the virus gets into your system you will get sick. It doesn’t matter if you are hot, cold, warm, or dry.

OMG! They really did this to kids?? Well, the biggest torture I ever had to go through was administered by my grandmother. Whenever a tooth began shaking, she would just plunge her hand into our mouths and pull it out. And, of course, she would scold fiercely if we yelled. The tooth had to be tossed over the roof...it was supposed to bring good luck. And, what else? Yup...we had to drink a bitter concoction too. It was supposed to keep the worms away. Cheers and happy Mylotting

Wow that is the first I have heard of that..how many more tales can you tell us pikey for one there is no way I would have that and would probably ended up with a red butt for it!! hugs littleowl

Sounds like a novel use for spring onions, but the poor lad was lucky not to end up as Christmas dinner lathered up with goose grease like that. I think my own mother's illness prevention method worked wonders. She decreed that if you were too ill to attend school then you were too ill for reading, games, TV or after school activities too. As a result, I had a remarkably healthy school career.

For measles which was very plentiful here in the 80's there were the boiling of tamarind leaves which is uses to bathe you.

Iam sitting here LMAO at that! my mom used to rub my chest and all with vicks vapor rub when i got a cold and that and the disgusting hot toddy that burned all the way down seemed to knock the cold. but lately i've had friends that tried the vicks and it just made the cold worse in their chest. it must have been that disgusting liqcour that cured me.

Hi p1key, That sounds very smelley and painful, my mother just used to line us up every morning and give us spoonful of codliver oil and my eldest sister would stand at the end of the line with spoonful of condensed milk. Hugs. Tamara

I've heard of having ears so dirty you could grow potatoes in them, but actually planting onions is something else! LOL. Seriously, I have heard onions have the ability to help breathing related illnesses, like the phlegm that builds up during a bad bout of respiratory flu. However, I always thought you had to ingest the onions. I'm not sure having them in your ears would help.

It kept flu bugs away cause anyone, and any bug couldn't stand the sight or smell! lol! I'm just guessing! haha! I've heard of some strange stuff before, but I do believe this takes the cake! can you imagine a kid walking around with long green stalks (that look like grass) sticking out of his ears and smelling like yesterday's dinner? lol! My grandmother believed that a kid couldn't get his/her first tooth without drilling a hole in a dime and wearing it on a necklace around it's tiny little neck.. didn't matter if it WAS a choking hazard! ya want your kid to have teeth.. dontcha?..... um... if they live! hahah!

You would be surprised that up to now, I still give in to my husband's massages and ginger treatments. But it worked,(perhaps partly because of the TLC massage too,lol), There was one time I slipped on the bathroom floor and got my ankle all inflamed and swelling; he got some ginger, washed it thoroughly, crushed it and then applied it as a balm after he had massage my foot from top to bottom. He tied up the ginger with a cloth up my ankles and instructed me to leave it overnight. I was laughing but well, there was no harm, so I did as he instructed. Morning came, and whoa! the redness and swelling were gone. I believed in his method more when I see similar occurrences being operated on and being treated for longer periods by a doctor. I would like to recommend my husband's treatment...lol...but of course, it is a very intimate method, so... I just mention it, and then that's it...Even crushed garlic could be good treatment for toothaches. Cheers and happy holidays!