Friday, November 11, 2005

Home Remedies

I stumbled across this website in the most peculiar way: I was looking up that old wives tale about not swallowing gum for it will "sit in your stomach for 7 years." This is just not true. Anyway, I was looking up the ingredients for chewing gum to give an answer to those that quote this myth (unfortunately, the specifics are proprietary, and I got distracted by the following website to look deeper).

www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/rem.htm

I am not even going to start defending some of these home remedies. I do know that some (perhaps I should say "a few") work from personal experience. Some just perpetuate old wives tales. Have a look the next time you have an ailment.

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