How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

It's a middle eastern thing. They put a pigeon on the hepatitis-sufferer's abdomen and the pigeon dies. Supposedly the pigeon sucks out the hepatitis.

How do they get the pigeon in the abdomen? :O

Perhaps more to the point is how do they get the pigeon to die? O.K. I realize these are old wife's tales, and no doubt the pigeon was supposed to die after sucking out the hepatitis. Has to make you wonder how that particular tale ever got started, doesn't it?

Perhaps more to the point is how do they get the pigeon to die? O.K. I realize these are old wife's tales, and no doubt the pigeon was supposed to die after sucking out the hepatitis. Has to make you wonder how that particular tale ever got started, doesn't it?

My family always grabbed fresh bread to stop bleeding. If none was handy, a potato was called into action.

We also used socks full of hot salt for earaches. Used it on my dd and it actually worked very well. Used it on my dh, but apparently should have heated the sock in ther regular oven (not the microwave) as a few minutes later he comes screaming out of the bedroom, where he had been lying with the sock to his ear, and there were actually little flames coming from the sock. Struck me hysterical, but to this day he accuses me of trying to kill him. LOL