re: Home remedies the medical industry says do not work

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Growing up in a black household, anytime we were sick it was some ginger ale and a sleeve of saltines.

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Same here.

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So applying itch cream to my left ear lobe for a rash on my right leg shouldn't be considered a home remedy either then?

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Correct

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That's funny because I though it was a black thing. Learned something new today

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i have a theory: not sure how you grew up; but we were pretty poor (just didn't realize it) so i suspect this has to do more with the other people we interacted with on a daily basis being on the same wavelength as far as remedies like this (or maybe just a southern thing?)

my grandmother would also wash and fold aluminum foil and put it in a drawer and the back of her dining room chair was COVERED with 30 years woth of rubber bands from the morning newspapers

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i have a theory: not sure how you grew up; but we were pretty poor (just didn't realize it) so i suspect this has to do more with the other people we interacted with on a daily basis being on the same wavelength as far as remedies like this (or maybe just a southern thing?)

my grandmother would also wash and fold aluminum foil and put it in a drawer and the back of her dining room chair was COVERED with 30 years woth of rubber bands from the morning newspapers

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While visiting other parts of the country, I've discovered that a lot of things that plenty of white people I know did, are considered "black".

They were probably just Southern low income norms and were transferred to a lot of the rest of the country when black folks left the South during the Industrial Revolution.