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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My maternal grandma lived to the age of 98 years old. She lived a long and healthy life. I never heard her complain of any aches and pains. She was a very strong woman. Whenever I was sick as a child, my mother did not take me to the doctor.

Instead she took me to grandmas house to care for me. These are my grandma’s home remedies, I’d love to hear your own home remedies in the comments below. She would also spread vapor rub on the soles of my feet and have me wear socks to bed. Homemade rubbing alcohol If I had a fever she would soak a towel with a homemade green rubbing alcohol and placed it on my forehead. The herbs she used were fresh from her garden — she never used tea bags. There’s just something soothing about chamomile, and it’s not just an old wives’ tale.

She especially did this if I accidentally swallowed my chewing gum because she would say the gum would go down to my legs and needed to be worked out before it caused other stomach issues. Of course, if I was really sick like when I had the chickenpox in the second grade then I was taken to the doctor. I remember the doctor recommending some pink calamine lotion for my itchy body. My grandma ended up making her own concoction that relieved the itching far more than the pink stuff. I’m not sure how she made it, but it worked. No matter what remedy grandma tried, I knew she would always make me feel better.

As a mother I make herbal teas for my children and rub their chests with Vicks, and make them homemade chicken soup if they are sick. I even bought my children some evil eye bracelets to keep el mal de ojo away. I’m all about trying the tried and true first before running to the doctor. My children love the extra attention and I prefer to try simple old-fashioned remedies first. I’ve always thought that I could write an entire book on the home remedies grandma had for any ailments. She was such a wonderful healer in more ways than she knows.

If you have natural home remedies that work for you, please let me know in the comments below. If you want more stories like these and recipes delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for my email newsletter here. Yvette Marquez is an Emmy-winning producer and writer, award-winning food blogger, and author of Muy Bueno and Latin Twist. She is a second-generation Mexican-American, born and raised in El Paso, Texas and currently lives in Colorado. Get Updates via Email Don’t Miss a Recipe! I would like to hear about your Mexican remedies I always use what my mother had for her remedies but I can’t remember them all.

My husband is Mexican and has many remedies he learned from his family. We used two fairly often when our kids were young. Sniff a freshly cut onion to stop a nosebleed and put granulated  sugar on a head bump to stop it from growing. I was skeptical at first, but both worked every time. I remember when we had plugged ears, my mother would roll up an old newspaper really tight , with one end pointy and the other wide and open, like a tornado. Then she would put the pointy end in my ear and light the other end and let the fire burn the paper until a swoosh of air would blow out from ear and my ear wasn’t plugged now! I thought there was a book?

I enjoyed very much reading All of your grandmothers remedies I felt I was reading my own story with my grandmother. As a child I was often scared by this or that, she would drag a bushel of Eucalyptus i believe, and pray over me. As with many others I grew up seeing the bottles with herbs floating in them Grandma alwys used wine bottles. And as a child i knew i could not go into a certain part of the back yard were Grandma had her plants growing lol. But my question is I live in Ca and now many of my elders from my family in their mid 80’s are talking about it and want to make it for themselves. Is it illegal for them to have it? I remember thank you for sharing a bit of my past.

LOTS of memories of my grandmother Angelica. She would pay and put small crosses all over us from head to toe. Here’s one I got from one of my Argentinian work friends. I was having shoulder pain and stiffness from working on the computer too much and she took me in the restroom and said lets try this.