Horrendous Home Remedy

Horrendous Home Remedy

Doctors don't know everything. Some families have cures for anything that ails you, handed down from Uncle Jack or from generation to generation, usually requiring nothing more in ingredients than things one can find around the house -- or, at worst, in a grocery store.

For most families, this is something like a good chicken soup (which has, actually, been shown to be Truth in Television.)

For some other families, well... the cure might be worse than the disease.

This trope covers any home-brewed "medicine" or remedy that is positively disgusting in appearance, taste and/or ingredients -- and usually all three at once. These remedies don't just taste like feet, they might actually be made with them, with the occasional toe popping to the surface.

Effectiveness has no bearing on this trope -- only the "yuck factor". (Although if they do work as advertised, that's an amusing bonus.) If the remedy or its ingredients don't make you say "oh, hell, no", it doesn't belong here. Nor do cures that don't taste like feet -- if you're only disgusted after you're told what you just consumed, that's I Ate What?

Naturally, this is (usually) a comedy trope.

Super-Trope to the Hideous Hangover Cure.

Live-Action TV

 * The title character's family in the South Korean TV show Strong Girl Bong-soon has a guaranteed cure that's been handed down from mother to daughter from time immemorial: "poop liquor" -- an alcoholic beverage made from fermented shit.  Amazingly -- or maybe not, given how much Functional Magic there is in the series -- it actually seems to work on everything including physical injuries.