Cures for the Ailments of Yesteryear

[John in Covina]

While there home remedies that make sense and either bring healing or relief, there is an interesting phenomenon of how some household remedies border on the supernatural. One is with warts where you are supposed to rub a piece of potato with the eye on it and plant it during the full moon. It's suppose to take the wart away. The thing is that some of these remedies may go back hundreds of years. In the old Foxfire series of books which dealt with the lifestyle of the backwoods residents of the mountains along the East Coast has a number of them. The isolation and family ties kept a lot of old time knowledge, traditions and superstitions alive.