Posted: 12/7/2007 10:03:42 PM EDT
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I don't know if I spelled it right but in the 60's and before there was a cough syrup substance that tasted like black licorice (jager) and the Dr. would prescribe it when you had the flu or deathly ill. Shit would make you puke and the next day you were better. Recently I found an empty bottle at a Pharmacy on display and the main ingrediant was 13% opiates........I asked the Pharmasist if it was still prescribed and he said many of the eldery ask for it. Anyone remember?????? Edited: med spelling, thanks |
Thanks for the spelling,,,, and yes it sucked however as mentioned it cured about everything....For those that were given it as infants, do you drink alcohol or have endulged in drugs in the past? I only ask because with 13% opiates and being an infant it must have done something to cause people to crave a high......... 
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That's it,,,, It was nasty as hell and would make you puke and go to sleep. Next morning you were 100%. The old Docs must have known somthing....What the hell is up today? You go to the Doc and get a prescrip and nurse the illness for 1-2 weeks.....I'm a thinking I will ask for Paragoric in the future.....for old time sake.... Hey...did it have caster oil in it???? I'm thinking it did.....that could explain the puking....remember the old caster oil fixes everything? |
| I remember my mother talking about it but I think I am too young to have been given it.. Im 36. But she did give me whiskey for teething, rubbed it on my gums. I doubt it did much more than make me sleep from the absorbtion of alcohol though my mouth and whatever I swallowed from it. I still have the little airline sized bottle she kept in her purse for me. The cap is chewed up where I nawwed on it.. A momento from her that she kept all those years. She died when I was 19. |
| Sorry to hear that , you and she was quite young. I think paragoric was fazed out in the mid 70's....the whiskey on the gums is interesting. Growing up in the west that was never heard of (at least in my part of the west) but when I met my inlaws years later in Michigan, Indiana and Tennessee this was a common remedy for infants. Also my bro inlaw would put whiskey in his kids bottles (w/koolaid) to get them to sleep. Unfortuanatley my nephews and niece really like their alcohol today..... |
Thanx, she was six days shy of her 47th Bday when she died. My mother and her family are hillblliy types and I was the subject of a lot of home remedies and cure-alls when I was a kid.. Linament salve, castor oil, medicinal homebrewed teas, different weeds from the yard and all that type of stuff. |
| Met my first real hillbillies in 68, Ozarks of Southern MO. Good folks and pisses me off when they are minimized in our culture. But you don't hear them complain cause they just want to be left alone....However, them ole boys got some remedies for ailments since they are self suffcient. |
Well, I can tell you, some of my relatives look stright out of Deliverance. My mother was dirt poor. She didnt have running water or electricity until she was 12 or 13. Her mom would have her hold chickens whle she whacked off their heads when she was a little girl. Her grandmother believed in all sorts of hillbilly stuff and so does her mother(my grandmother). To this day my grandmother swears by many of her old time cure alls and potions. She even believes in ghosts, gobblins, spooks and all that. Even says that witches tried to steal my mother when she was an infant. She kept them from the house by placing a broom across the doorway. She says witches wont cross a broom placed on the ground across a doorway.. The best thing about mountain folk.. They can cook. My grandmother makes bread and pie crust that is so good it will kill you! No recipe, just tosses everything together, says she learned when she was about 7 or 8 to make bread and pies.. Taught by her mother, so on and so forth. I bring her small game in the fall and she cooks it all up pretty good. She cooks rabbit and squirrel that is amazing.. |
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Took is when I was a kid for mostly just stomach aches. I liked it. It never made me throw up. They tightened up on availability because of abuse, because of the Opium. Several years ago a friend told me that a house they moved in to had empty paregoric bottles all over the attic. Hundreds of them. People would cook it and mainline it. |
Oh hell yah, My grandparents lived in Poplar Bluff and my grandmother was one hell of a cook....People today don't know what cook'n is... only thing, I wish they wouldn't throw the whole squirrel in the stew. I hate the bones and hair...... I miss running the woods and ponds with my cousins and coon hunting and catfishing at night. Not to mention the bull frog hunting too. Amazing how paragoric got us here.... |