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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere's avatar

Sun is one of the best cures for the skin and a range of skin cancers (not all). Just don't get burned. Start with a few minutes daily and slowly extend. I had harmless skin cancers - all gone. It also gives you the Viit D. And ditch the sunglasses altogether too. They fool your body and brain. It takes a few months of squinting and after you normalized yourself you will wonder why you ever wore them. You see so much better without them. And it helps with the slow tanning and healing of your sun deprived skin.

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Great article. I remember that black salve. My mother had a tube of it. It smelled. My brother was playing in a forest with friends building a fort and got stuck with a thorn. He never mentioned it and days later my mother noticed him limping when he said his leg hurt. His leg was inflamed so she put this black salve on it. It got worse and she saw what she thought was a splinter, took a tweezers and pulled it. And pulled it and pulled it. It was 4" long. We were all shocked that he managed to go about so long with that stuck in his leg, but that salve forced that thorn out just a bit so it became visible. My mother did the exact same. Wrapped my brothers leg with gauze and within 2 days my brother was back into that forest to complete his fort with friends.

We used that salve on all skin related disturbances. Boils, inflammation, severe poison ivy, bee stings, my brother again thought kicking around a wasp hive might be fun until it exploded. My mother wrapped him like a mummy. There was another product I'll never forget and it was called Ecco Powder. Astounding what that powder did. My father used to kick off his shoes to stretch out on the couch for 1/2 hour nap after work and dinner. No one was able to walk into that living room. My mother made a foot bath with this Ecco powder, maybe 2 times. Never and I mean never again did my father have footatosis. All yeast infections, irritations gone overnight. Boy do I miss those cures.

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