Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who's used Vicks VapoRub is certainly aware of its unique tingling effects. The cough-suppressing analgesic has been around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vick's VapoRub packaging. Many people reach for Vicks VapoRub to find relief from a nasty cough. When the ointment is rubbed on ...

We keep hearing about unconventional uses for Vicks VapoRub. This smelly old salve in its familiar blue bottle has been smeared on chests to relieve congestion for generations. People also have found ...

While putting Vicks VapoRub on your feel cannot cure cold symptoms, using it as intended may help you feel better. Vicks VapoRub is an ointment that you can use on your skin. The manufacturer ...

Vicks VapoRub in its blue jar has been a staple of home medicine chests for more than 100 years. Readers of this column have shared a lot of unique uses for this old-fashioned remedy: nail fungus, ...

A frugal grandmother has found good company on Twitter, where many users say they feel just as comfortable as she does using a decades-old jar of Vicks VapoRub on their bodies, despite an expiration ...

In an era of children’s cold-medicine shortages, it is interesting to recall the old days. Before miracle drugs and tastier fruit-flavored medications, mountain folks relied on home remedies. Those of ...

In 1894, the Greensboro pharmacist Lunsford Richardson II developed a mentholated topical ointment, Vicks Magic Croup Salve, to cure a common infant affliction: congestion and a barking cough. Named ...

In 1988, an infant of unknown nationality died after ingesting 5ml of camphorated oil. What's False We found no recorded deaths in or outside the United States attributed to topical application of ...

The Madras High Court has stayed a single judge's recent finding declaring the word “VAPO” publici juris (belonging to the ...

Anyone who's used Vicks VapoRub is certainly aware of its unique tingling effects. The cough-suppressing analgesic has been around for over a hundred years, and in that time, people have claimed that ...