Last weekend I bought a packet of Epsom Salts for a foot ailment I have had since December. While reading the back of the package I learned that besides being an excellent foot soak, Epsom Salts can be used as a compress to reduce the inflammation and swelling of sprains, as a soothing and relaxing bath, as a laxative, and as a plant food.
That is one versatile little mineral!
I can understand how someone discovered its use on plants. I'm sure Grandma was regularly soaking her feet and throwing the used water with the dissolved salts out the back door to water her petunias. When the petunias started looking better than those by the front door, somebody put 2 and 2 together and found a new use for Epsom Salts.
But I'm still working on the laxative. Was Grandpa watching Granny soak her feet and decided if it made her feet smooth, it ought to work wonders on his piles, from the inside out?
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