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December 17, 2002:
Simple Cures From Your Kitchen
Interview with Joey Green, author of Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures

Joey Green:
You're cooking in the kitchen, you get a first-degree burn, you just squeeze a dollop of the Colgate toothpaste on the skin immediately, and you let it dry and it prevents blistering, speeds up the healing, and it's the glycerin in the toothpaste that reduces the burning discomfort.

Joey Green, author of the book Joey's Green Amazing Kitchen Cures.

If don't have any Colgate toothpaste, you can use French's mustard. This is actually used by short-order cooks in diners and restaurants. They squeeze the mustard on, rub it in, and again, it relieves the burning pain.

Got a muscle ache? Reach for the Uncle Ben's rice.

Take a clean sock, ideally, fill it with rice, tie a knot in it, and pop it in the microwave for a minute or two, heat it up and put it on the back of your neck. It's a nice warm heating pad.

Listerine mouthwash is actually good for dandruff.

Not drinking it. You just take a capful of Listerine, or two capfuls, wash your hair with the Listerine, working it into the scalp. In fact, it used to be advertised on the back of the bottle that Listerine cures dandruff. If you get a ring stuck on your finger, how do you get a ring off your finger? Well, usually what happens is the finger gets all swollen, you can't get the ring off. Use Preparation H. You just squeeze some on your finger, rub it in. Preparation H relieves the swelling and it also lubricates the finger so that the ring will come sliding off.

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