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Incredible FLU REMEDIES from 1959 | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

The good people of the 1950s share some of their homemade cures for the 'flu, with BBC reporters Alan Whicker and Fyfe Robertson.
To try them all yourself you will need: whiskey/whisky, lemon barley, porridge, eggs, bacon, tea, boiling water, a finely chopped Spanish onion, brown sugar, vinegar, boiled onions, hot rum punch, an old sweaty sock, salt, a pullover, a hot water bottle, elderflower wine, mustard, lard, goose grease, a large sheet of brown paper (warm), lemonade, aspirin, a stocking, a safety pin and a positive mental attitude.
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  • @martina5296
    @martina5296 Жыл бұрын

    I learned alot. The flu HATES whiskey and sweat. And sometimes socks.

  • @Mentocthemindtaker

    @Mentocthemindtaker

    Жыл бұрын

    But only _used_ socks...

  • @mikedakin2016

    @mikedakin2016

    8 ай бұрын

    It only confirmed what I already knew, people were stupid. They still are!

  • @Rosander-Xander-The.IV-12th

    @Rosander-Xander-The.IV-12th

    6 ай бұрын

    Onions!

  • @tashcow90

    @tashcow90

    5 ай бұрын

    And mustard and goose grease 😂

  • @alfiestoppani
    @alfiestoppani2 жыл бұрын

    I love how that guy says "And in three days, I'll be cured". I guess that's why people believe so many things cure them. Everything seems to work because you eventually get better regardless.

  • @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

    @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just think they are way more intelligent answers than trump and his fanatics! Ivermectin and malaria tablets! 🤦‍♂🤣

  • @hideouslyugly

    @hideouslyugly

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought the same, do away with the sweaty sock, and you'll still be cured in three days!

  • @Geletin911

    @Geletin911

    2 ай бұрын

    but yet, take a vaccine, have a reaction and then the govt covers it up ;)

  • @russo1
    @russo12 жыл бұрын

    a lot of the people featured in this clip were born in the 1800s

  • @Ltforlife22

    @Ltforlife22

    2 жыл бұрын

    1880’s or 1890’s

  • @Traveller69

    @Traveller69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably in their 30s to be fair 😂

  • @alih1000

    @alih1000

    2 жыл бұрын

    So?

  • @chchwoman9960

    @chchwoman9960

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I miss those people

  • @jjaime331

    @jjaime331

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably they were born in 1880-1889 I'll be like those people in 2059.

  • @paulhease1007
    @paulhease10072 жыл бұрын

    I love Alan Whicker. Such a class act. Never condescending

  • @irenedavo3768

    @irenedavo3768

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please watch the Camp Beagle

  • @oldjake4233

    @oldjake4233

    2 ай бұрын

    Very true.

  • @adamtoms761
    @adamtoms761 Жыл бұрын

    Not sure about the science behind that gent’s whiskey theory but I’m willing to give it a jolly good go!

  • @sambda

    @sambda

    Жыл бұрын

    That's why so many of these remedies include alcohol. You feel better, obviously, but there is no curative value in it.

  • @vespelian
    @vespelian2 жыл бұрын

    The older ones would have remembered the flu of 1918.

  • @Candice77750

    @Candice77750

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918

  • @mickeypearce244

    @mickeypearce244

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Candice77750 true and its making those that wear them ill now. Never learn

  • @eedobee

    @eedobee

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Candice77750 yeah, as a consequence of cytokine response. Secondary infection is considered a complication of the initial pathology. Otherwise you might say the true cause of death was lack of oxygen.

  • @Nefariously_ignorant

    @Nefariously_ignorant

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mickeypearce244 You spread propoganda but don't have the balls to say what it is people are wearing that causes illness. Is that because what you believe is embarrassing?

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mickeypearce244 wear what?

  • @user-uw5ng5yt6r
    @user-uw5ng5yt6r2 жыл бұрын

    People were tougher back in those days, That last guy died 15 minutes later after this interview from terminal cancer he didn't even know he had. He had just finished a 32 hour shift on a building site and was about to go to the pub for a standard 72 hour drinking session.

  • @Schudulaba

    @Schudulaba

    2 жыл бұрын

    How do you know that about that last guy?

  • @user-uw5ng5yt6r

    @user-uw5ng5yt6r

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Schudulaba He shagged my granny. *edit* 3 years after he died. That's how to tough people used to be.

  • @samnicholson5051

    @samnicholson5051

    2 жыл бұрын

    One of the women here - I couldn't tell you which - did the interview with a broken spine. She had just fallen down her stairs about an hour before, and chose to hold off going to the hospital when she heard the TV people were coming around.

  • @MattTweeks

    @MattTweeks

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its nothing compared to the interviewer, he went on from interviewing civilians to hosting the first ever Olympics. National relic!

  • @mid-walesrover681

    @mid-walesrover681

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes they were tougher, more resourceful and could turn their hand to anything. No snowflakes.

  • @faithlesshound5621
    @faithlesshound56212 жыл бұрын

    The brown paper that "old wives" used in the 18th and 19th centuries was much thicker and coarser than what we have now, and more suitable for soaking up an ointment such as goose fat to apply to the skin. Mustard was used externally as a "counter-irritant" when the part underneath was inflamed inside. The other way that cartoons used to show it used was to sit at home with your feet soaking in a basin or "mustard bath." A lot of pre-modern medicine aimed to do something dramatic and visible to the body: to make you sweat, vomit, bleed, have diarrhoea, etc. Part of the appeal of homoeopathy was that their super-dilute medicines did NOT do any of that.

  • @fidelisfaber4961
    @fidelisfaber49612 жыл бұрын

    My granny always had a goose grease plaster fitted when she had a chest infection as a child. She said the crackling of the brown paper could be quite noisy, and it tended to slide around as it was tied on with string. The goose grease and paper had an insulating and warming effect under your school clothes, and the warmth helped loosen catarrh. So not such a dumb idea after all.

  • @succulent951
    @succulent9512 жыл бұрын

    'you've got flu now? In that case I won't keep you another minute' 😂

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt2 жыл бұрын

    Mustard and lard. **makes mental note**. Outstanding.

  • @romulus_

    @romulus_

    Жыл бұрын

    bit of lettuce, pickled onions and you've got a nice sandwich.

  • @PHvlogger
    @PHvlogger2 жыл бұрын

    "warm goose grease, which most people have in the house" 👁👄👁

  • @balthiersgirl2658

    @balthiersgirl2658

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's from when people are properly

  • @As-zn3cd

    @As-zn3cd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@HattieMcDanielonaMoon or ate properly

  • @HattieMcDanielonaMoon

    @HattieMcDanielonaMoon

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@As-zn3cd That makes more sense

  • @EgoAlters
    @EgoAlters10 ай бұрын

    You can tell that you are getting better, when you can smell the sock around your neck. But then again, one will wish they were not getting better at that stage.

  • @samreetsengupta3541
    @samreetsengupta3541 Жыл бұрын

    Most of the people in this video born in the late 19th century still make it to the KZread.

  • @dev4911
    @dev4911 Жыл бұрын

    Good old home remedies from our grandparents😊😊

  • @nicolarollinson4381
    @nicolarollinson43812 жыл бұрын

    Some of these "cures" worked because they helped to sweat it out. Onion and lemon contain vitamin c and, the hot whiskey and rum...tastes good and knocked us out, especially us kids 😊

  • @garryleeks4848
    @garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

    Whiskey in tea too start the day 👍

  • @matthewm2528
    @matthewm25282 жыл бұрын

    Mustard and paper on the chest 👍

  • @sillygoosegoose
    @sillygoosegoose Жыл бұрын

    my stepmum (born 1963) still insists on making a 'hot toddy' (hot water, lemon, honey and whiskey) when you're sick. i personally hate the taste but it does feel like it burns everything up and the alcohol numbs the discomfort.

  • @jamesgreen8573
    @jamesgreen85732 жыл бұрын

    Love the old Britain

  • @basilbrush9075
    @basilbrush90752 жыл бұрын

    My gran would say the chap at the end didnt have flu! If you arent more or less bedridden, its not flu in her opinion

  • @Radio_Activity

    @Radio_Activity

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your gran is correct. The term 'flu' gets banded around far too often. Most people have a cold. Flu is a different beast altogether and you barely have the strength to get to the bathroom, never mind chat happily to a film crew outside!

  • @basilbrush9075

    @basilbrush9075

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Radio_Activity I'll tell her, she'll be chuffed to be in agreeance with people!

  • @elainethemusician3310

    @elainethemusician3310

    2 жыл бұрын

    She is correct.

  • @smorris12

    @smorris12

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've had flu several times. I barely have the energy to lie down, unmoving. Everything hurts, even my eyelashes ache.

  • @wombatlittle1
    @wombatlittle12 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing how accents or speech has changed over time

  • @MenWithVen

    @MenWithVen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Loads of Welsh people sound like that now

  • @wombatlittle1

    @wombatlittle1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MenWithVen that I didn't know

  • @MenWithVen

    @MenWithVen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wombatlittle1 where are you from?

  • @wombatlittle1

    @wombatlittle1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MenWithVen Australia

  • @MenWithVen

    @MenWithVen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wombatlittle1 ah cool. Where did you think the people in this video were from?

  • @kawaiilotus
    @kawaiilotus2 жыл бұрын

    I find it funny how only one actually mentioned real medicine, a hot toddy or elderflower wine is great for making you feel better/symptom control but won't do anything to tackle the illness, you need both.

  • @cominoengenharia

    @cominoengenharia

    Жыл бұрын

    Studies Indicate that elderflower has antiseptic properties against resistant bacteria, and at least one tested antiviral ability against H5N1 virus with success. There are a range of bioactive compounds in the flower and fruit so that now companies are patenting some of them (which is sad in my view).

  • @cominoengenharia

    @cominoengenharia

    Жыл бұрын

    also, there is no "real medicine", in most cases, for flu vírus. People take drugs to alleviate symptoms. So, much better is for this purpose to take what doesn't bring in adverse effects.

  • @theboujieproletariat

    @theboujieproletariat

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no cure for the flu or for the common cold. It still hasn't been invented.

  • @rebecca.smith.

    @rebecca.smith.

    Жыл бұрын

    pharma is drugs not medicine

  • @user-yq3nu5hd6n
    @user-yq3nu5hd6n5 ай бұрын

    We're golden years back then 1960 British values And humour 😂 Lovely people All doctors 😂😂❤ Today every one wrapped up in cotton wool

  • @rockeee
    @rockeee2 жыл бұрын

    'Jolly good!'

  • @meelodeshmeeelo2034
    @meelodeshmeeelo20342 жыл бұрын

    I’m 50 and remember my mum putting me and my nephew (only 6 years younger than me ) in her bed with loads of duvets to ‘sweat out’ whatever it was we had

  • @MarcoNegrisEye

    @MarcoNegrisEye

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your mum put you and your 44 year old nephew to bed??...

  • @meelodeshmeeelo2034

    @meelodeshmeeelo2034

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MarcoNegrisEye haha no, well ye but when we were children, I was about 10 so he would have been 5 ish.

  • @bobsmith3291
    @bobsmith32912 жыл бұрын

    2020- hide in your house and don’t meet other people . Spit in a stupid plastic rectangle and wait for 2 lines.

  • @hensonlaura
    @hensonlaura Жыл бұрын

    From my farmer/hillbilly grandma in US we had, for illness of varying severity: Hot as you could stand it - sautéed onion plaster on the chest. Sock pinned around the neck (if it had Vic's Vap-o-Rub under it you had to lie down because the fumes would blind you). Lemon & honey for cough. Castor oil for regularity and when my mom was a kid... tablespoon of sugar & kerosene. Mom wouldn't let her give us that one thank God. It was to kill "worms" (shudder). Even when grandma dosed us with modern cough medicine (per Mom) we weren't allowed to wash the bad taste down (early 70's, medicine tasted like medicine, not candy) because she believed it was the coating on the throat that helped, not ingesting medicine! Not very sophisticated, only finished 8th grade, but she was intelligent, read all her life and had elevated principles & behavior. She also grew, raised, and hunted & fished everything they ate. She was tough as nails, my granny. A formidable woman who was well respected. I doubt many modern educated, liberated women could match her in intelligence, common sense, tenacity or ability. They sure can squall about their exacting standards of behavior & rights though!! Bless their little ole hearts.

  • @bengaliinplatforms1268

    @bengaliinplatforms1268

    Жыл бұрын

    God bless your old Granny and all those who were like her

  • @dawidjan1993

    @dawidjan1993

    Жыл бұрын

    This took a turn towards the end. One can praise one's grandmother without slagging off other women.

  • @Miserycordya

    @Miserycordya

    8 ай бұрын

    Don't bring your poor sweet granny into culture war nonsense .. she sounds like an incredible woman

  • @paulbrunton877
    @paulbrunton877 Жыл бұрын

    Most of the old remedies work, and still do, especially a drop of whiskey.

  • @its_matt_long
    @its_matt_long2 жыл бұрын

    Watching this with the flu

  • @nezbit8989
    @nezbit89892 жыл бұрын

    Everyone said something they believed and thus got better. Sweating it out seems very feasible too

  • @keith2073
    @keith20732 жыл бұрын

    When the BBC had standard's.

  • @terrynpiper7667
    @terrynpiper76672 жыл бұрын

    The good old days when the BBC made programmes instead of propaganda.

  • @baliksupper6043

    @baliksupper6043

    2 жыл бұрын

    Boring!

  • @hurtstopee1895

    @hurtstopee1895

    2 жыл бұрын

    this is propaganda- the kind that reminds you of what you have lost to un-relenting immigration to keep us cheap labor fodder fighting amongst ourselves. protocolsofzion states the humoring of the remaining old populous with nostalgia.

  • @Roseland8

    @Roseland8

    Жыл бұрын

    They were still didling kids I'd say

  • @chrisleggatt3240
    @chrisleggatt3240 Жыл бұрын

    Historic Naivety, makes me question how our Naivety will look in the future?

  • @randybobandy4801
    @randybobandy4801Ай бұрын

    My favorite fellow is still the first man to speak. No stinky socks or weird herbs for him. Good hot breakfast, tea and whiskey. Similar to Appalachian folk remedies adjusting for some cultural differences (tea v. coffee, porridge versus potatoes or hominy grits).

  • @2_thumbs_up_baby
    @2_thumbs_up_baby Жыл бұрын

    Love these old vids. Alan Whicker!!!!

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter58492 жыл бұрын

    Alan Whicker could listen to the craziest remarks and be courteous - wonderful interviewer. But it's amazing that none of these people seem to have considered a doctor - flu epidemics killed huge numbers of people before the clean air act.

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    Жыл бұрын

    The doctor was for more important things than a flu

  • @michellephillips3655

    @michellephillips3655

    Жыл бұрын

    Doctors make you ill, by selling /Dealing you pharmaceuticals that only superficially fix a problem but then the after effects which ARE THE EFFECTS do damage to other parts.. Pharma is poison. I'm not totally against doctors poison as it does save lives quickly in certain cases, however natural remedies are best... Every cure for every disease is available in that region for the diseases of that region....

  • @Hurc7495

    @Hurc7495

    Жыл бұрын

    before 1948 poor people wouldnt have seen a Dr unless they where on deaths door, this is probably the late 50's but old habits die hard!

  • @arthurpendragon1056

    @arthurpendragon1056

    11 ай бұрын

    They are crazy remarks aren’t they. We all now know that the best solution is to inject ourselves with green monkey kidney cells, bovine serum, aluminium and mercury!

  • @shirleyellis9708
    @shirleyellis97082 жыл бұрын

    What about the good old Vicks .

  • @andyhodge7122
    @andyhodge71222 жыл бұрын

    I’m quite thankful my Mother only forced cod liver oil on me after listening to this lot.

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm18268 ай бұрын

    Starts the day off with portage bacon and eggs and a drop of whiskey in his tea. And staggering off to work

  • @六十前後
    @六十前後2 жыл бұрын

    I hear a lot of "sweat it out". Sweating is a kind of remedy!

  • @robertp.wainman4094
    @robertp.wainman40942 жыл бұрын

    "Good hot breakfast" - these people knew how to live, not for them the current trend of "I don't eat breakfast - just an espresso."

  • @justinmccurry9633
    @justinmccurry9633 Жыл бұрын

    The lady at 1:38 is in higher quality than 90% of videos out there

  • @liamthewarrior
    @liamthewarrior2 жыл бұрын

    Remedy n.19374693: repeat "jolly good" twice in the same sentence to keep influenza at bay

  • @justchristine8479

    @justchristine8479

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just what I was jolly well thinking. 🤔🤣

  • @faithlesshound5621

    @faithlesshound5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    A shortened version of "Jolly good show."

  • @oldjake4233
    @oldjake42332 ай бұрын

    1:27 The late and wonderful Alan Whicker.

  • @peterdalyy3542
    @peterdalyy35422 жыл бұрын

    Oh my goodness how wonderful England once was

  • @Alaskan-Armadillo

    @Alaskan-Armadillo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes I to have nostalgia for the days of English Whiskey

  • @succulent951

    @succulent951

    2 жыл бұрын

    And sweat socks around my neck

  • @baliksupper6043

    @baliksupper6043

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spanish onion and lard,then off to the outside bog for a big shite,come back in and leave all the doors open,looovely days!

  • @kaattiiex

    @kaattiiex

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now it’s a dumping ground, i wish London was like it was 100 years ago, it’s so sad

  • @tentringer4065

    @tentringer4065

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kaattiiex I too wish for the return of smog and appalling living conditions. But why only 100 years back? Why not 200 or 300?

  • @livesportsvideo
    @livesportsvideo Жыл бұрын

    Thank goodness for VICs Vapour Rub.

  • @user-pt1le6cc8c
    @user-pt1le6cc8c2 жыл бұрын

    My pops swore by boiled lemonade

  • @1timbarrett
    @1timbarrett4 ай бұрын

    Charming if outdated to hear of so many alcohol-based remedies. 🥃

  • @leeoasis1982
    @leeoasis19822 жыл бұрын

    Is that a Welsh Martin kemp at 4:10 😂

  • @justchristine8479
    @justchristine84792 жыл бұрын

    The bed must stink of greasy goose. 🤣

  • @baliksupper6043

    @baliksupper6043

    2 жыл бұрын

    What an aphrodisiac!i don’t know how they contained themselves!!

  • @londonlady227
    @londonlady2272 жыл бұрын

    Feed a cold, starve a fever.

  • @chchwoman9960

    @chchwoman9960

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's what I was always told too, and I find it's naturally what you feel like doing

  • @davidkennedy8929
    @davidkennedy89293 ай бұрын

    I would love to hear these people’s opinion of COVID? Wish they were in charge instead of the namby pamby brigade who insisted on lockdowns, masks and social distancing!😊

  • @chrisleggatt3240
    @chrisleggatt3240 Жыл бұрын

    Word of mouth was a lot easier marketing back then. Mustard whiskey and lard. Might smear some on a face mask just to try it out.

  • @leea2112
    @leea211225 күн бұрын

    my auld Scottish dad swore by a hot toddy a drop of whisky , lemonade , lemon juice he would warm it in a pan give it too us kids when we were rotten with the flu i remember it sweated the flu out of us and were right as rain next day and i still take it today it really does work to this day !! 😂👍

  • @WintersKnight546
    @WintersKnight546 Жыл бұрын

    nowadays we shut down entire economies

  • @luminair11
    @luminair112 жыл бұрын

    Cor blimey!!!!

  • @henrysmom1742
    @henrysmom17428 ай бұрын

    I was born in 1959 but remember a lot of these remedies from my childhood. When we got sick my Mum would spread goose grease with camphor oil all over our chests covered by one of my dads old tee shirts. A hot cup of tea with sugar and lemon and horrors!! a tablespoon of whiskey. Under the covers to sweat it out. Now we know a fever helps the immune system so I guess Mom knew something. Once we got more financially stable we switched to Vicks. Never took medicine for routine illnesses.

  • @travelwell6049
    @travelwell60492 жыл бұрын

    They all pretty much have the idea that you sweat it out. I find Indian food helps, I don’t have anything too spicy, but it does help to sweat it out. And I always feel better the next day. These folks won’t have tried Indian at this point, probably mustard is the strongest food they have access to.

  • @tamielizabethallaway2413

    @tamielizabethallaway2413

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you seriously that ignorant...? . We've had spices from India way back in the 15th century! How do you think all the pickled foods, chutneys and other jarred foods were cooked and stored for wintertime eating? Why do you think we have Christmas pudding and Christmas cake, with all the sugar and spices? Fridge freezers were not a thing, there was no way to store summer fruits and veggies for winter when nothing grew. Preserves is what they relied on, and they'd spend 6 months of the year making food to last 12 months! . Meats and fish were salted, cured or pickled, fruits, berries, nuts, etc went into puddings, jams, jellies and chutneys. There was no Tesco delivery for all your Christmas food. Hence apple sauce, cranberry sauce, relishes, pickles etc still being particularly popular at Christmastime. . There were recipes first published in 1747 for actual curry, although people had made it long before. We ruled India from 1858, way before this video's people were even born! Henry VIII enjoyed spiced sugary treats...sugar was why the Tudor period saw so many with black or missing teeth! Queen Elizabeth I had a tooth famously extracted by a dentist. And yes I know sugar is not a spice, but neither does it grow in England! . We had tea from China in the early 1500's, and it wasn't delivered by Amazon Prime! We found The Americas in that same time period too. You know the Romans were here 2,000+ years ago right? Vikings were here 1,000+ years ago right? How do you think they got here...? Time travelled from now, went back and changed our history?? . I seriously can't believe you're that stupid to NOT know that people have travelled around the globe for MILLENNIA... and think that we only just about had access to the world's resources in 1959! Have a word with yourself for Christ's sake! Did you even graduate nursery??? 😳😳😳 ..... EDIT*** OMG! Just realised your screen name is Travel Well.....😂🤣😅 "Sugar and spice and all things nice, that's what little girls are made from" comes from a poem written in the 1700's.... I guess they had a premonition of what was to come? 🤔 Or maybe it's those damn time travellers again...? 🙄 Whoever it was, they clearly TRAVELLED more WELL than you ever have! 😳

  • @bletheringfool
    @bletheringfool2 жыл бұрын

    Beecham's Mustard and Lard

  • @simongood3
    @simongood32 жыл бұрын

    Covid ???? What a load of bollocks where's me whiskey 🤣

  • @dameaustel
    @dameaustel Жыл бұрын

    What's with a sweaty sock around their neck?!

  • @georgelebreton3177

    @georgelebreton3177

    Жыл бұрын

    I suppose (and hope!) they mean putting a (clean!) woollen sock quite (not too!) tight around their neck (=so, like a scarf - so why don't they just use thát, right?!), to make theirselves "sweat it out"...😊

  • @jamesmarshall7513
    @jamesmarshall75133 ай бұрын

    “Goose grease. Which everyone has in the house.”

  • @karinam4115
    @karinam41157 ай бұрын

    The benefits of coconut oil

  • @travelwell6049
    @travelwell60492 жыл бұрын

    Stingray from Neighbours in the back on the thumbnail. Jolly Good.

  • @ylette
    @ylette Жыл бұрын

    1:26 Great glasses

  • @lukemitchell1975
    @lukemitchell1975 Жыл бұрын

    They all on the drink

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog54462 жыл бұрын

    How did Alan Wicker manage to keep a straight face?

  • @Chopsyochops
    @Chopsyochops2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds similar to what we do in our house in the North of the U.K. We wrap up warm, drink some lemon, whiskey and honey known as a hot toddy. Then we sweat it out and sleep. It worked for my second dose of covid too. I enjoy having flu, it it’s such a great reset for my body. Makes me stronger in the long run and gives me the best sleep.

  • @Intoxicanna

    @Intoxicanna

    Жыл бұрын

    I had many hot toddy’s in the 60’s!!

  • @NdnUrbanCat

    @NdnUrbanCat

    Жыл бұрын

    I wish it made me stronger. I'd run out right now and get it! Trouble is, every time I get sick, I never fully reset.

  • @Chopsyochops

    @Chopsyochops

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NdnUrbanCat you might be missing some vitamins and minerals which are holding you back from full recovery. When we fight any virus, we use up our vitamin and mineral stores. You may need vitamin D, C, Bs, B12 or iron. I was deficient in many after covid.

  • @TheStupidcomment

    @TheStupidcomment

    Жыл бұрын

    I can guarantee that if you enjoy having the flu then you've never really had the flu. A real flu is brutal and floors you for 2 weeks or more. All you've had is a nasty cold by the sounds of things.

  • @benlachenal771
    @benlachenal77110 ай бұрын

    My grandma swore by the idea that a sweaty sock tied around the neck is the best remedy

  • @susanpaparo4472
    @susanpaparo44727 ай бұрын

    Clearly they all worked because here they are telling the tale!

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach296 ай бұрын

    i can see how encouraging a fever and sweat might work...are these people really talking about 'flu though or just respiratory infections in general? When I had 'flu I couldn't even stand up for about 5 days let alone have the energy to make a rum punch or onion syrup!

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet35432 жыл бұрын

    Hello world alan whicker quote.😆

  • @joshuataylor3550
    @joshuataylor35502 жыл бұрын

    Funny that no one actually gave a mechanism.

  • @mmane257
    @mmane2572 жыл бұрын

    this was done in the year my was born.

  • @tanseygreen
    @tanseygreen2 жыл бұрын

    Real men and women look at how pathetic we've become

  • @jan_Masewin

    @jan_Masewin

    2 жыл бұрын

    someone has a high self esteem

  • @detectingadventuresscotlan6177
    @detectingadventuresscotlan6177 Жыл бұрын

    2. Arse. Springs 😋

  • @gerardtom5722
    @gerardtom5722 Жыл бұрын

    Goose grease ...yuk

  • @judyjones8876
    @judyjones8876 Жыл бұрын

    In our house it was Vicks vapor rub and use on chest and put in your vaporiser i seen my dad swallow it i was 6 and they wernt gonna talk me into that

  • @marine4lyfe85
    @marine4lyfe859 ай бұрын

    What's with wearing sweaty socks around the neck?

  • @Traveller69
    @Traveller692 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely brilliant. Funny that nobody mentioned shutting society down. 🙄

  • @faithlesshound5621

    @faithlesshound5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    Without a 'flu' vaccine, that's the other thing that works best. During covid19 the incidence of flu (and many other infections) dropped, and the flu season was shortened, because people kept their distance, washed their hands and wore masks.

  • @MrBannystar

    @MrBannystar

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@faithlesshound5621 *"and the flu season was shortened"* The flu season was abandoned altogether, and now we're slowly seeing the disastrous catchup of ridiculous lockdown policies which will cause far more deaths than they prevented.

  • @faithlesshound5621

    @faithlesshound5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrBannystar The 'flu' season was not abandoned: flu vaccines continued to be administered, but the addition of masks and social distancing reduced the rates of transmission and shortened the flu season as a whole. The same thing happened to many notifiable infectious diseases: measles, mumps, rubella, enteric fever, food poisoning, meningitis, etc, etc. Deaths on the roads also plummeted when few of us were travelling. Social distancing saved lives, so it's time for the snowflakes in the West to start wearing masks when unwell or vulnerable like people do in the Far East. The aspect that many have forgotten about is hand washing: we need facilities for that in both take-away and sit-down catering, and not just hidden away in an unsavoury lavatory.

  • @BadgerBotherer1

    @BadgerBotherer1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@faithlesshound5621 Flu was redesignated as Covid.

  • @faithlesshound5621

    @faithlesshound5621

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BadgerBotherer1 Flu still exists, and has bounced back since social distancing was relaxed.

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel12372 жыл бұрын

    Rub goose grease on ya chest ? Wtf

  • @unnamedchannel1237

    @unnamedchannel1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Sarafina Summers even so why would you rub Vaseline on your chest

  • @lulubelleish

    @lulubelleish

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @lulubelleish

    @lulubelleish

    2 жыл бұрын

    Think Sarafino meant homemade Vick's vapor rub 😂

  • @littlebrookreader949
    @littlebrookreader949 Жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @lysaali50
    @lysaali50 Жыл бұрын

    slow news day?

  • @joshuadean1880
    @joshuadean188010 ай бұрын

    Talk about eye contact the lady with white hair

  • @wendywolfman
    @wendywolfman2 жыл бұрын

    Just before the cultural revolution.

  • @kaattiiex

    @kaattiiex

    2 жыл бұрын

    Invasion of our beautiful culture

  • @joshuataylor3550
    @joshuataylor35502 жыл бұрын

    Socks on the throat is utterly insane.

  • @elleryeggen9678

    @elleryeggen9678

    2 жыл бұрын

    When Grandma had a sock around her neck, we knew she was ill. She never complained. The sock was the only indication.

  • @succulent951

    @succulent951

    2 жыл бұрын

    But the 'wait so you're not spreading it around' is real

  • @MarcoNegrisEye

    @MarcoNegrisEye

    2 жыл бұрын

    But a thin layer of material on the beak and gob is Eureka?

  • @succulent951

    @succulent951

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MarcoNegrisEye Worked in the medical industry for years 🤷

  • @Paul_Templer

    @Paul_Templer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Almost as Insane as a paper mask .

  • @sputnik1941
    @sputnik19412 жыл бұрын

    What with the sock around the throat ?

  • @dianes9151

    @dianes9151

    2 жыл бұрын

    Could be an old wives tale, not very therapeutic.

  • @jeanesingsjazz

    @jeanesingsjazz

    Жыл бұрын

    Keeps in body heat and helps you sweat it out when you’re sleeping. Most people used woolen socks.

  • @hensonlaura

    @hensonlaura

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dianes9151 love how you don't know, but think you know. Typical modern kid.

  • @dianes9151

    @dianes9151

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hensonlaura I love how you assume I'm a kid. I'm actually a Grandmother of 4 who spent most of my working life in the Medical Field. Most of these remedies are codswallop handed down through the generations by people who are born and died in the same town, had the fear of God, and had a narrow view on life, because they didn't know any better. If goose fat etc worked, we would still be using it now, right? These poor souls were born over 120 years ago, left school at a very young age, probably lived in a 2up, 2down, had outside toilets, probably had a bath once a week in front of the fire in a portable tub, and reused the water for the whole family, cooked on a fire stove, lived through 2 wars. Life was hard, there were very few doctors and only the rich people could afford them. These 'remedies' were used rather than nothing, they all had a basis somewhere, but so did bleeding people, and that was fatal. Is this the answer you required?

  • @northernsnow6982

    @northernsnow6982

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dianes9151 you're obsessed over the goose fat. Try thinking about what they are applying with the goose fat. The goose fat was only to make a balm, that would hold the mustard in place. Which if you know enough, mustard actually helps with respiratory issues and loosening phlegm. And you'll also know that lemon is another great medical ingredient, in many modern medicines at your local drugstore, that are made for the flu. This is along with honey, another proven to help medically, natural cold/flu remedy. You should also know alcohol was only taken out of cough syrup, because of people getting drunk off them, not because it didn't help you get rest. Working in the medical field you should also know sweating it out is definitely a good way to go, for lots of infections. I understand some doctors today saying sweating doesn't help, yet if it didn't work your body wouldn't do it naturally, when you get the flu. Your bodies natural response, knows better than doctors about sweating it out. What does bleeding people as a medical practice, have anything to do with natural remedies? There's nothing natural about sticking someone with a needle, and draining their blood. Don't try and use unnatural medical experiments, to disprove natural remedies. Find the science that has been done, for every remedy here. Then come back and tell me which ones have been proven wrong, and which are still used in medicine today. I think you'll be surprised. Please, only the remedies mentioned by the people in the video, nothing about bloodletting or lobotomies.

  • @vanessahawarden9028
    @vanessahawarden9028 Жыл бұрын

    Covid + boiled onion in sweaty sock = CURE 🥵🤧😃

  • @JohnnyRelentless
    @JohnnyRelentless2 жыл бұрын

    Does every English household still have goose fat in the larder?

  • @judyjones8876
    @judyjones8876 Жыл бұрын

    whiskey sounds like a plan

  • @Jay-O_Carlow
    @Jay-O_Carlow Жыл бұрын

    WAIT WHAT LOL!! Giggling to my self here ... ffs lol Grab brown cooking paper mustard lard and goose grease ( which everyone has Lol ) whap that around you go to be next day right as rain LMFAO wtf ... but there were the times just insane to me but really reminds me of my granny tbh she kept everything i mean everything lol

  • @vika0194
    @vika01942 жыл бұрын

    I have never seen someone with eyes so high up on the face.

  • @christopherjohnmatthews
    @christopherjohnmatthews Жыл бұрын

    Thank god bechams and night nurse was invented

  • @philipmilner9638
    @philipmilner96386 ай бұрын

    Good greif, try telling a GP of these cures if you ring up with flu....

  • @Gutenmorgenside
    @Gutenmorgenside Жыл бұрын

    People were more superstitious back then. The goose grease option is a bit bizarre.

  • @harriska
    @harriska Жыл бұрын

    "it cures the germs"

  • @NickolaySheitanov
    @NickolaySheitanov2 жыл бұрын

    Nowadays the remedy is “get your flu shot”

  • @golangismyjam
    @golangismyjam2 жыл бұрын

    This is why education is so important. You would get these same answers in poor religious countries now.

  • @thepap000

    @thepap000

    2 жыл бұрын

    We actually can't cure the flu now and most of these work

  • @unnamedchannel1237

    @unnamedchannel1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thepap000 which ones work ? The one dude stay in bed for 3 days well yeah they was is natural cycle anyway

  • @lulubelleish

    @lulubelleish

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dunno sitting here with the flu listening to all their antidotes has made me feel so much better. 😂😂😂😂

  • @emilyhughes4297

    @emilyhughes4297

    2 жыл бұрын

    While these aren’t exactly a cure, most will make you feel a little better in the short term.

  • @thepap000

    @thepap000

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@unnamedchannel1237 all the ones with lemon or honey or mustered

  • @SA-de4lc
    @SA-de4lc Жыл бұрын

    We're vaccinated ! Lol

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