Okay, this sounds outrageous, but it's true. It sounds silly, but who cares, if it works.
It seems there are a lot of colds going around that go away, leaving you with a persistent cough. The cough seems to hang on for weeks. If you start coughing during the night and can't seem to get stopped, here's the thing to do.
Put Vick's Vaporub on the soles of your feet, then put on socks. Within minutes, the cough completely stops. Ken has had this night-time cough for the last week or so, and he'd been putting the Vick's on his feet, at first with a bit of skepticism, now he's convinced.
The nice thing is that Vick's Vaporub has almost all natural ingredients. Here's the listing from the Vick's web-site:
Active Ingredients (Purpose)
Camphor 4.8% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)
Eucalyptus oil 1.2% (Cough suppressant)
Menthol 2.6% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)
Inactive Ingredients
Cedarleaf oil, nutmeg oil, special petrolatum, thymol, turpentine oil
Still not convinced, here's the link to Snopes.com.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/vaporub.asp
It may sound hokey, but if it works better than taking cough suppressants (chemical stew), why not?!?!
3 comments:
i'll try that next time i get a cough.. i never really get one so it might be a while but i sure will try it
I'm in.... I'll try it. I used to love when Mum would rub it on our chest and back, then put a nice undershirt on.
I always loved the heat feeling and the undershit sticking to me.
OK - that's what Homee has been doing wrong, I have been using Peanut Butter. After all it goes well with Toe Jam!!!!!
Thanks for the word
Homee dad
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