This is insane...
Jacki-Healing Remedies
How would this cure a cough?

Xania, can you explain this? (if anyone would have an explanation, I would think it would be Xania).

one thing for sure, it would be an easy (and fun) thing to try.
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Maybe it's like the same concept that if you rub garlic or soak your feet in garlic water, you'll be able to taste the garlic in 15 minutes. The pores on your feet are the largest pores on your body and absorb stuff rather quickly. But is Vicks natural?

Very strange. Sounds like those old wives tales, about rubbing Mustard in your chest, and Necklaces of Garlic for what ails you, or some such stuff.

We absorb many things through our skin, so it's quite believable that Vicks on the soles of the feet will be systemically available in a few short mminutes.
if you are brave enough, test this for yourself -
Fix a slice of garlic to the sole of a foot (sock? Band Aid?) and then notice how many minutes it takes to be able to smell the garlic on the breath. You may need the assistance of a tolerant friend for this test!

Vicks will be availabel to the whole system in the same way.
Is Vicks natural? Wikipedia thinks so, and I have used it in the past, and survived! -

The brand is most widely known for the signature "VapoRub" ointment, a mentholated topical cream intended to assist with minor medical conditions that temporarily impair breathing, including the common cold. It is an Ayurveda medicine and is applied to the chest, often immediately before sleeping, or inhaled by melting it in very hot water.
VapoRub was created in the 1880s by Lunsford Richardson, a Selma, North Carolina pharmacist, as a salve for treating colds and pneumonia. Richardson later moved to Greensboro, North Carolina and began marketing it as Vicks VapoRub, named in honor of his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick, a Selma physician. In 1948, Edward Mabry became president of Vicks, then known as the Vicks Chemical Company. In 1985, it was sold to Procter & Gamble. VapoRub is currently manufactured and packaged in Mexico and India.
Active Ingredients:

• Camphor 4.8% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)
• Eucalyptol 1.2% (Cough suppressant)
• Menthol 2.6% (Cough suppressant and topical analgesic)

Inactive Ingredients

• Cedarleaf oil
• Nutmeg oil
• special Petrolatum
• Thymol
• Turpentine oil

I am just a bit curious to wonder why it is claimed as an Ayurvedic medicine? Those ingredients must have been available to many parts of the world, over the centuries, so it could as easily be claimed as a TCM medicine, or a Mexican or North American Indian remedy.
Not that it matters, but can anyone suggest the reasoning behind this?

we have done the garlic trick... Had the daughter be a guinia pig.. We cut a piece of garlic in half and had her stand on it... within seconds, she had pain in her knee (she has alot of knee problems, and was able to taste the garlic within a couple of minutes.. very fast actually.. I have heard about the vicks, I have heard of alot of people who use this method, and seem very confident that it works... I know we used vicks on dads toes when he had fungus... worked better then anything else we had tried.

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One of the hemmoroid (sp) cures I tried this past spring also said for me to put some on my feet as well as on the 'issue' at hand so it would go thru my system to heal as well.

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what a cute picture, judie!!!

Thanks. It just got me when I first saw it.