I get a lot of emails and luckily for me I have a good spam filter which filters all the crap otherwise I wouldn’t have time to read the important stuff. I remember hearing once how you could put crushed garlic into your shoe and it wouldn’t be all that long before it would appear on your breath, meaning of course that it was absorbed through the pores of your skin.
Well it seems that there are some uses for this little known fact, one of which I got in the following email.
During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can ‘taste’ it.
Some of us have used Vicks VapoRub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore toes and many body parts in between. But I’ve never heard of this. And don’t laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren’t sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks VapoRub generously on the soles of your feet, cover with socks, and the heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly
Just happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good, due to the chemicals in them This method of using Vicks VapoRub on the soles of the feet was found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bed time. In addition it seems to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
My wife tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few minutes.So she went from; every few seconds uncontrollable coughing, she slept cough-free for hours every night she used it.
If you have grandchildren, you may want to tweet this. If you end up sick, try it yourself and tell us if it works. I know I will be trying it.
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I’ve never heard of this before, not even with the garlic. I know I won’t be trying that one, but I just might have to go out and buy some Vicks Vaporub to try that one. Then again, I think I’ll wait for you to do it first, since it seems you already have some of the stuff.
Yep, seeing as how we’re heading into winter I reckon I’ll be needing to try it before you anyway Mitch, I just have to wait until I catch a cold. 😉
Why am I suddenly inclined to go to the store and find out what chemicals are in Vicks that maybe I dont WANT in my bloodstream? While it has a pretty good safety history, and obviously crosses the skin barrier when applied to the chest, we’re talking about increasing the rate at which it enters the blood stream. Hmmm… Keep us posted Sire!
Kimberly, if I suddenly stop posting you’ll know why, and if that happens it will be your duty to notify the Vicks people so they can write a warning on the label. 😀
Say, what brings you to this blog?