Loading...Q. Long ago when I was in high school, my baseball coach provided “oil of wintergreen” for our sore muscles. Is this approach still considered valid? Now that I’m pushing eighty, I have a few aches and pains.
A. Oil of wintergreen, also known as methyl salicylate, is a time-honored rub or liniment used for sprains, strains, aches, pains and arthritis. The odor is distinctive.
You will find this compound in products such as Ben-Gay Original Formula, Icy Hot Cream, Musterole Deep Strength Rub, Mentholatum Deep Heating Lotion and Thera-Gesic Crème. Such products stimulate pain receptors for heat or cold and interfere with pain messages from sore muscles or joints. They also increase circulation.
JB
Newport , TN
my mother now 93 for years made a linament that was truly a sore mussle friend. it was all natural with golden seal or golden rod, murr, cayan pepper, rubbing alchoal and some other things. she would mix a couple qts of it and put it in a brown glass jar and let it set in the dark in the basement and go stir it up once every 4 or 5 days for a month or so. then strain it and put it in small bottles for us boys to take home.
you would rub it into sore mussles and feel very little. but over night it would work very good and the next day as the mussle heated up from work it would warm up and really pull the soreness out. I don’t know what the name was. I put it on my old computer and it crashed and I lost the receipe. if anyone knows this please send me the how to for it.. thank you very much.