Does Anyone Remember This?

[Caran]

Soap and sugar poultices for splinters etc?
I got a splinter in my finger today after a bit of weeding. I got OH to probe at it with a needle. It was such a tiny splinter but very sore. He couldn't shift it. The I remembered my mother's old remedy. Squash soap and sugar together put it on splinter site and cover with a plaster.
Unfortunately I didn't remember it correctly. The soap needed to be squidgy so I tried to melt it in microwave. Didn't work and sugar didn't really meld into it. I should have used warm water, doh!! Anyway I carried on and eventually had a look, the splinter had gone, success!!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, I recall soap as a poultice - also sugar and soap poultices for boils.

My Gran used one on my brothers arm, it took the boil and a lot more besides.

[Buenchico]

It's a new one on me but, as usual, Google comes up trumps:
https://www.homeherbals.com/soap--sugar-poultice.html

[lankeela]

We always used baking soda mixed to a paste. For horses we used a bran poultice as hot as they could stand it wrapped in a cloth and applied to a leg or foot.

[gness]

And if that ever work, Caran tape a raisin to the splinter and it will remove it in twenty four hours.
How are your legs?

[gness]

doesn't! work....x

[Caran]

Gness legs still iffy. I bought some of the tablets for legs, not too sure if any improvement really but will carry on with them.

[gness]

In my experience, Caran Wonder Legs work quite quickly. Are you going to see a doctor if you're still having problems?

[tonyav]

Yep, I remember the soap sugar thing, my mom used it on me for various things as a kid.

[Sam1960]

Snap tony, always worked a treat. God knows what I was doing as a kid to get so many tiny skelfs and splinters in my fingers.

[tonyav]

Yep, anything that didn't need surgery, Sam :-)

[Caran]

Gness at the moment going to doctors is a Nono. We are in lockdown, too nervous to chance going out. OH is high risk having had cancer twice. So I will put up with it.

[ladybirder]

Doesn't your doctor do phone consultations Caran?

[tonyav]

Most of them are.

[Caran]

Yes ladybirder he does. But at the moment I feel there are other people in far more need than me. I can cope, will wait until we are back to normal. Thank you for your input.

[Barsel]

My Mum used to use something called drawing ointment, I think that's what it was called, as it was used for drawing things out.
I got a splinter down my finger nail at school off the parquet flooring and had to go to the school clinic with a teacher. The nurse cut my nail really short so she could pull it out with tweezers. have never forgotten the pain.

[tonyav]

BarselMy Mum used to use something called drawing ointment,

Yep, that was another thing in my mom's first aid kit, Blackjack.

[Caran]

Ooh barrel I feel for you, that sounds so painful.

[Barsel]

Tony I thought Blackjacks were chewy sweets?
Caran, it was painful, I was only a child at the time.

[tonyav]

I got a splinter down my finger nail at school off the parquet flooring and had to go to the school clinic with a teacher.

Yeah, why was it that most schools ( back in the day ), the hall, dining hall ( same room most times ) had a parquet floor.

[tonyav]

Tony I thought Blackjacks were chewy sweets?


They were ( still get them I think and fruit salads ) but this drawing ointment was Black and sticky and mom called it Blackjack.