Useful Kitchen Tips

I am copying this from the Jan/Feb 2011 Coutryside and small stock journal...thought it might be useful for some of you.
"1. Minor Cuts: Apply ground black pepper to stop bleeding. No, it won't sting.
2. Burns: Immediately apply ice wrapped in damp cloth until the pain stops. It may take hours, but there will be no scar.
3. Warts: Make a paste by mixing baking soda with spirits of camphor in a capped container. Apply paste to wart every night and cover with bandage. Remove bandage in the morning. This method also works on stubborn plantar warts on bottom of feet. Here, you may have to use bunion relief pads to relieve pressure. Also shave down top of wart with razor blade to reduce pressure. This works when all else fails, e.g. acid, burn, freeze, radiation, and X-rays. If paste container dries out, add a little bit of rubbing alcohol to paste.
4. Eating raw, cruciferous veggies (Bok Choy, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, or radish), are bad fr your thyroid gland. Only eat these veggies if they are steamed or cooked.
5. Commercial potatoes are sprayed with a (poisonous) sprouting inhibitor. Peel potatoes before cooking then. Cooking with peels on forces poison into potato's flesh. Ditto for French Fries. Don't eat them unless you grow your own potatoes.
6. A cucumber's skin is mildly poisonous and its pointed seeds will irritate gastro-intestinal tract. Peel and seed before eating cucumbers.
7. All parts of deadly nightshade plants (except the edible fruit) are poisonous. This group includes egg plant, okra, bell pepper, potato and tomato.
8. The green parts of are poisonous. Cut off all green parts, no not eat them.
9. Vinegar will keep you from getting food poisoning. Start meal with a salad drenched in vinegar-based dressing or carry a small flask of vinegar with you to add to your drinking water. Sip from glass during meal. Vinegar is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral.
10. Lavendar or hops smell will help you sleep better.
11. Treat "garlic breath" with whole milk (not skim milk)."

Interesting and hopefully useful for someone reading this.

Toe info!

Helpful little tid-bits for people who get in-grown toenails...or get their feet squished and get that blood pressure build up under the toenail... this came up at soccer the other night, so I thought I'd post the "cures" here for anyone else who might find them helpful!
Ingrown toe: take a blob of lotion and put it on the toe, wrap the toe with plastic wrap and put a sock on. If you can, sleep with it on over night, or just leave it on for a couple hours. Your toe will turn pruney (is that a word!?) and the skin will be soft and easy to pull back to allow the toenail to come up without going into the skin...may need to be repeated a few times to continue to make room for the nail... it depends on how quickly you catch it.
Purple toenail: This is super common for contact sport athletes, hikers, bikers, farmers that work closely with large animals how have an eye for feet stomping! All you need is a needle and a candle. Light the candel. Hold the sharp end of the needle over the flame until it is super hot then poke the needle into the center of the toe nail. This will start to actually melt through your toenail. If you are having to push too hard, your needle isn't hot enough. Keep re-heating it in the flame and keep putting it in the toenail until you have gone through the nail and the blood is being released through the hole. BE CAREFUL... again, you shouldn't have to push hard, BELEIVE ME it is super painful to have it break through the last layer of nail and then into that sensative part UNDER your nail! If you do it correctly this shouldn't happen. Also, expect your nail to eventually fall off if you do this method. (which it may do regardless if you got stomped real hard)

Bee Stings

Here are the latest cures for bee stings I have heard of... thought I'd share!
1. Baking soda and water on the sting. (this is what I always did as a child)
2. A copper penny on the sting.
3. Plantain (common weed- I will upload a photo later) chewed up and put on sting.

Know any others?! Please share!