Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
I thought everyones mom put vicks up > their nose if they had a cold... Janice - my Mom rubbed it on my chest when I had a cold and they have found that people that routinely use the vaporub in their nose can develop a lung problem - there is something in the vaporub that collects in the lungs if it is put IN the nose. I know there are folks out there that have chronic breathing problems (allergies, etc) that would put the vaporub in their nose every night. -- Laree in NC Doppa & Mura Simon, Sadie and Sam (the "S" gang) "Yet when all the books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them." - William Farley
Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
I have friend with a walking horse she suspects is proud cut cause if there is a mare around he calls and calls. She started smearing vicks salve in his nose so he cant smell mares. I started telling her i wished she wouldnt do it, it just bothered me and finally one day she got aggravated and said "Janice what the heck is it to YOU if I smear vicks in my horses nose" and without thinking I blurted "well if you'd ever had vicks smeared in YOUR nose like I HAVE" and everyone was just amazed, which amazed me too, I thought everyones mom put vicks up their nose if they had a cold... Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
> A favorite story in my family is the one where my aunt made a nice hot > mustard plaster for the chest of her husband, who had a bad cold. I've had more than one mustard plaster in my life, although I remember my mother putting something between the plaster and our skin. Cheryl Sand Creek Icelandics Icelandic Horses & Icelandic Sheepdogs website: www.toltallyice.com
Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
Good grief Janice, didn't every little child in the world have to line up at the kitchen sink for a spoonful of cod liver oil? What were our mothers thinking. A favorite story in my family is the one where my aunt made a nice hot mustard plaster for the chest of her husband, who had a bad cold. It was much to hot to apply with her hands, so she slopped it on with a spoon. I'll bet he forgot that cold for a few minutes at the very least. Nancy
RE: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
anyway. this isnt very yuppie i know... janice Gee, ya think!? Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.6/1150 - Release Date: 11/24/2007 5:58 PM
Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
> That's pretty ironic, isn't it, in light of this thread? But, there are > lots of old folk remedies (for humans and for animals) that are either > useless or downright harmful. Some may work, but I don't lightly buy into > folk remedies without doing a lot of checking first.<< oh lord tell me about it! My parents thought spirits of turpentine could cure brain cancer, If you had a chest cold they would give you a teaspoon of sugar soaked in turpentine, if you hit your finger with a hammer they would soak it in turpentine to take away the soreness. if you had a cut, turpentine. i dont know if its cause we were always the turpentine capitol of the universe here or what... also kerosene was considered medicinal, and also moonshine. I had on occasion been seriously medicated with moonshine medicinally as a painkiller. also, and this is a good one spider webs as an anti clotting agent. if you cut your jugular or femoral artery and blood was spurting in geysers my mom would yell at you for making a mess and go looking for a spider web to stuff into the wound. and you probably dont want to hear about heated tar for pulled muscles, a backache etc or boiled onions in rags for you to breathe in the vapors. we didnt have one of those nice plastic vaporizers you put vicks salve in. we had turpentine applied liberally around our noseholes. also, when cheryl posted about cod liver oil being toxic i was cringeing and thinking oh yes cod liver oill, oh my i have HAD plenty of cod liver oil! whooo! not to mention i was the only actual human being i have ever heard of to be hospitalized for worms, when i was five years old, hookworms actually, but then my brother brought a friend over and after they left she turned to me and shook her head and said "he is wormy!" me and my sister laughed and laughed about that. then the guy got a mystery illness and went everywhere, even the mayo clinic and they found out just before he died he had some strange tropical worm. and he died! anyway. this isnt very yuppie i know... janice -- yipie tie yie yo
Re: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
On Nov 25, 2007 4:35 PM, Nancy Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Years ago, while hanging out in the cafeteria at U.C. Davis Vet > Hospital, there are only six degrees of separation right... i worked for a year for the City of Davis California. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
RE: [IceHorses] No Fish Oil
>>> Years ago, while hanging out in the cafeteria at U.C. Davis Vet Hospital, I >>> met a professor from the animal nutrition department. I described the wonderful diet I had put my aging cat on and mentioned the addition of flax oil. She said something like "well, flax oil is close to useless for a cat, it can't digest it well or utilize it -- give flax oil to your horses and give fish oil to cats." ... I had not yet seen an Icelandic horse. That's pretty ironic, isn't it, in light of this thread? But, there are lots of old folk remedies (for humans and for animals) that are either useless or downright harmful. Some may work, but I don't lightly buy into folk remedies without doing a lot of checking first. Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.6/1150 - Release Date: 11/24/2007 5:58 PM
