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Originally Posted by sm_counsell
In winter before we went out of the house to go to school, my mum had two deep dishes. In one was a kind of treacle and in the other a yellowy-green powder.
My brother called it 'Brimstone and Treacle'. and she forced us to eat it.
It was awful but I must say that we never suffered from colds or flu (not even now that we are 'ancient')
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Brimstone and treacle, is an old remedy for cleaning the blood, I was dosed with it often as a kid, boils, it cured them, never had boils since.
Retlaw.