Share Your Home Remedies. . .

Do you have any home remedies that have worked great for you that you'd like to share with The Health Warrior? Maybe something your mom or gramdma used when you were a kid, or just something you stumbled upon, or substituted for in an emergency instead of a traditional remedy. And VOILA!--it worked better than what you used before? If so, send me your story and the remedy and I'll post it here on Amazing Natural Remedies (Just keep it under 250 words).

When I was growing up, some of the fondest memories I had were visiting my grandparents in Pittsboro, Mississippi. Bryant and Ruth Flanagan (Mama Ruth and Grandaddy to us) lived on a cotton and soybean farm on about 50 acres. They had a huge garden with just about every variety of vegetable, several dairy cows, two mules, and a chicken coop with a few dozen chickens and two mean roosters. (The meanest one chased my cousin Jeffrey one day, and scared him so bad, it pushed Mama Ruth's Terminator Button, and she decapitated the rooster in the garage with a hatchet.) But that's a whole 'nother story...

So one visit, my older brother Ed and I were playing in the haystack in the barn, and I got stung on the arm by a couple of wasps. Grandaddy saw me crying, got off his John Deere and went over to his '58 Chevy Pickup. He grabbed his pouch of Red Man chewing tobacco off the dash, placed a wad in his mouth, chewed on it for a minute, then removed it and pasted it over the stings. Miraculously, in just a couple of minutes, the sting lessened and the swelling even went down. So there you have it--a safe, proven effective home remedy for bee and wasp stings! (And everyone has a pouch of Red Man around the house, right?)

So send in your story and you too could be a famous published author...