Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2005

Variable Details

Variablewhatrem
LabelQ38a: What are they?
Question text What are they? [any folk remedies that have been used by members of your own family or your own friends]
Responses
1 Charms for warts and ringworm 46
2 Reiki 1
3 Onions keep colds away 2
4 Copper arm bands for Arthritis 6
5 Bread Poultices for infections 24
6 Cure for shingles 23
7 Charms for sprains 20
8 Put bacon in bread and wrapped around the infection 4
9 Put spiders webs on a cut 2
10 Cure for warts, by holy water. 2
11 Preparation given for kidney stones 1
12 Get a dog lick a wound 2
13 Rub potato on warts 37
14 Charm for burns 6
15 Rub a snail on your warts 4
16 Bread charm 1
17 Healing charm for Asthma 1
18 Warm olive oil for earache 0
19 Foot of cot at window for sleeping problems 1
20 Nettle tea to lower blood pressure 1
21 Dandelions for wasps stings 0
22 Rub butter on your nose to unblock it 3
23 Place cold keys down your neck to cure nose bleed 2
24 Tie wool around ankle, when it breaks in 3 days its cured 0
25 Cold teabag for Conjunctivitious 3
26 Take honey and lemon diluted in water for a sore throat 3
27 Boil up Broom and take it orally for Acne 2
28 Cow manure for Acne 1
29 Natural yoghurt for sunburn 1
30 Drink nettle soup for chest problems 1
31 Charm for headaches 3
32 Prayers said by the seventh son to cure a sprain 2
33 For an ankle sprain rub it and then add hot sticks 1
34 Honey & onion juice drink the liquid to cure a sore throat 1
35 Mustard powder in socks,wear them overnight for Hayfever 0
36 Butter on the head to cure the swelling 0
37 Sitting on a saucepan of boiled leeks for piles 2
38 Heat potato, cover it with gauze and hold it to your ear 0
39 Charm for dirt in eye 1
40 St johns wart herbal preparations 1
41 Crystals for arthritis 1
42 Roll Insulating tape around a wart 0
43 Charm for Colic 5
44 Rub your spittle after a nights sleep onto a wart 1
45 Throw potato at crossroads for cancer 2
46 Apple in half,rub half on warts,bury all in secret place 3
47 Soaking feet in vinegar 1
48 Nettles and ivy for Arthritis 1
49 Vinegar for stings, cuts abrasions 1
50 Burning embers for ringworm 1
51 Mushrooms in milk,strain them after 9 days,drink milk 1
52 Brown paper and vinegar for back and chest pains 4
53 Cabbage on knee for pain 6
54 Charm for Chicken pox 1
55 If stung by a nettle rub a docken leaf on it 2
56 Silk Scarf for a sore throat 3
57 People buy your warts, give a sixpence 3
58 Cider vinegar for general wellbeing and Arthritis 4
59 Dandelion for boils, boil the leaves and then eat them 1
60 Cabbage leaves for Mastisis 2
61 Plain yogurt for sunburn. 1
62 Red flannel for sore back or aches and pains 4
63 Say a prayer and lay hands on swelling any part of 3
64 Dandelion and daisy roots for Jaundice 2
65 Castor oil and brown paper for a bad cough 2
66 Ginger for toothache 2
67 A piece of string tied around friends knee,cure a sprain 1
68 Charm for nose bleeds 1
69 Rub a gold wedding band for styes in your eyes 1
70 Charm for back pains 2
71 Rub the hair of a donkey on a burn 2
72 Hot whisky with sugar and lemon to cure a cold 1
73 Bathe your feet in epsom salts to bring down swelling 2
74 Hair of dog in bread,rubbed on head for whopping cough 2
75 Rub a garlic glove on wasp sting 1
76 Yogurt for thrush 1
77 Shingles - gave signs of the cross with an old watch 2
78 Whooping cough,hair of well person in bed of sick person 1
79 Whisky and olive oil on cracked nipples for breastfeeding 0
80 Charm for leg ulcer 1
81 Charm for Psoriasis 1
82 Nettles for Purifying blood 1
83 Gargle salt and water with baking soda for a sore throat 1
84 Rub goose fat for healing sprains 1
85 Bicarbonate of soda for heartburn 1
86 Vinegar on a wasp sting 0
87 Rubbing a raw onion on warts and then bury it 1
88 Throw money on road, whoever picks it up gets your warts 1
89 Butter milk and baking soda for a bee sting 1
90 Drink out of the wrong side of glass to cure the hiccups 1
91 Sleep with a cabbage leaf on your back for pain. 1
92 Passing a child under a donkey to cure measles. 1
93 Charm for heart problems 1
94 Keep an envelope in your back pocket to cure Piles 1
95 Epilepsy,healer chanted patients name 1
96 Eat living fungus to cure cancer 1
97 Cures for Hernia 1
98 Dont know 48
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DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNorthern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2005
Interviewer InstructionsLIST ALL, AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR.
UniverseNorthern Irish adults;National;Adults aged 18 or over living in private households in Northern Ireland during 2005.
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study