I think you will like this little trick. I know, I know, this isn't completely unknown. However, the title is purposely hyperbole because there are enough people that don't know about this that I think it's important to get the word out. Thanks for watching and please leave me a comment in the section below!
That’s a new one on me. I get leg cramps sleeping in a bed. If I’m on the ground (or the floor) there’s no problem. But anything softer than shag carpet, and it is a challenge to stay asleep. I’m gonna have to try this. Thanks 😎
Thanks for the information that's pretty interesting I don't have that problem but if you would do me a favor and not use those 50 Cent words that makes me have to look them up and see what they mean I certainly would appreciate you being down-to-earth and using simple words for simple people. Thanks have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!
Mate, I have dreadful restless legs syndrome.... 30 years of it, now on a bad drug that does me good yet promotes daytime fatigue... and I get cramps. I am going to wear 2 bars of soap - each one between 2 layers of socks - if it helps me at all and I can slowly slowly ween off "sifrol" I will be forever grateful. Update: did not help. Tried a few nights. Oh well.
I cant help but feel its my fault you had to point out that the title is purposely hyperbole because of my comment the other day, i was honestly only joking when i made that comment and i find your videos extremely useful and interesting. Going to have to give this one a try as i often has restless legs and difficulty sleeping
Thanks James, I had forgotten about this. I’m American Indian (Cherokee/Osage), my Grandmother was a Healer (as was her Mother and her Mother before back to 1800 that is documented. She always made her own soap and added herbs and “Medicinals” to it. I remember that she added lavender and comfrey leaves and ground roots to the soaps to put by your feet. She put them in old worn out socks or small light weight bags she made out of old flour sacks. Hope this info helps some one. I’m 70 years old now and wish to continue to be helpful for as long as I can be. Respectfully, B StrongBear
@@nicolecrystal6765 I am glad to have been of help to you and any others. Somewhere in my collection of papers and books I have my Grandma’s papers and recipes for making different medicinals and soaps. If interested let me know and I’ll try to find them and copy them for you.
I have been using this trick since watching this video. It definitely works for me. The first night I noticed an immediate reduction in the intensity of my restless legs. This trick did not get rid of my problem immediately but every night is much better. I now sleep most nights right through without the restless legs waking me up. I lightly wrapped a bar of Dove Soap in a thin cotton cloth, held closed by some tape, and it stays between my sheets at my feet. A combination of this soap trick, plus magnesium tablets, plus calf stretching (like a jogger does) helps me sleep real well at night. Thanks James.
I look at it like the government is trying to ban Sudafed because one ingredient is deemed useless for stuffiness... I use it and if it is a "Placebo" so be it. I will try it after I kick the dog off of the bed, lol.
I come from Germany. Believe it or not. Sometimes I have cramps in my calves at night. My doctor then told me to drink the vinegar water for cornichons or mixed pickles out of the glass. He said it was a recipe from his grandma. IT WORKS . I don't know how or why, but it works .....
Pickle juice for cramps is an age-old remedy that sailors use, and I've used it for about 20 years since I learned about it. I rarely get cramps / charlie horses but the pickle juice remedy is pretty much 100%.
Salt is the most common electrolyte in the body. You're basically drinking pickle flavor gatorade, of course it works. PH has nothing to do with it though. And soap, no, that's pure placebo
Thanks as a 78 year old disabled gent who is basically bed bound this idea which you say is medically sound could be very helpful to myself and other disabled. Thanks Ian.
there's frequencies here on youtube that you can type in for your situation that really help😊 just type in leg cramps or whatever bothers you. God bless
It works. 100%. I've known this for decades, and my mom kept a bar of soap at the foot of her bed for many many years. In fact when mom died, we put a bar of soap by her feet in her casket. She would have thanked us. Haa.
This info is so amazing. So many reporting good results, and sad that so many have RLS and some have cramps. I tried this out a few days, did not help me and I hope it does help others a lot. Cheers for the New Year from me 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you for this video. It worked wonders for my grandmother. She has been waking up in the middle of the night several days a week with horrible leg cramps for years. I told her about this and she is so thankful. She has told all of her friends about this. Thank you again
Where have you been all of my life?? 😆 I am the Altoids QUEEN. I love the tins and hate tossing them out because they look so handy, mostly for crafts. I had no idea they would make perfect survival kits.
I always use anf keep altoid tins sucrets cough drop tins for literally everything to make a EDC kit be it sewing kit earphones flash drives and otg cables adapter or quarters and folded dollar bills to keep in your glove box for the air inflator or a small tank of gas.
I will try this. My wife has chronic cramps. Most ideas fail. Tried vinegar, mustard and pickle juice. The pickle juice works best, probably because she hates vinegar and doesn’t like mustard. Thanks for the info.
My husband works on the road so we have a surplus of motel soap. He also has RLS, so we are going to put this to the test! Thanks James for this video! God bless and stay safe!
James, if your body is sufficiently deficient in magnesium that you’re having this problem, wouldn’t it make sense to address the actual nutritional deficiency? After all, magnesium is used for literally hundreds of processes in the body, so by the time leg cramps are a problem at night, chances are you’re really in truly low and it might be affecting other bodily processes. Just saying. Thanks for your video! Update: there seems to be a couple of people that are confused about what I’m suggesting. I am suggesting that regular painful cramping like this is not a normal part of being healthy, that symptoms usually have causes that may indicate a larger problem that could be otherwise affecting a person’s body, that people who are suffering like this could consult with their own medical professionals suss our the cause and address it before the inconvenient issue becomes a major problem. Because remedies that address the symptoms, like James’ suggestion, or pickle juice, (or any number of other home remedies), really are great to get you through the moment, but they don’t address the causative issue, which left unchecked could cause major problems later.
I don't actually suffer from magnesium deficiency. However, the problem can also be caused by a potassium deficiency or a lack of hydration. This is something that a person might use in a survival situation or after a long trek and they're experiencing these issues. However, you would definitely not want to do this and bear territory, you would need to observe all bear protocols.
This is a great point. Always look for the root cause & address it! Great video for the tip and the info, tho. Especially if it works someone & it opens their mind up to other natural, attainable remedies.
Wow ! I am going to try this. I am plagued with cramps frequently in my legs, feet, arms and hands and fingers. That is usually when I am very active with them. Thank you for sharing this. I am going to try it. The doctors have not been able to prescribe medicine that works. God bless you and those you love. My love to you and yours ! A friend always !
Going to show this to my mother. She’s suffered from restless leg syndrome for 20 years….. real strain on her 😞 gonna have her try this! Thanks for posting! I’ll get back to ya in awhile!
Something else that’s great for cramps is tonic water, just be sure it has quinine in it , I keep a quart in the fridge all the time . Tastes nasty , but in works great ,and quick . My brothers doctor clued him on this one …
I use tonic water for cramps and it does work. i discovered I only need to drink a small amount of it. I actually like the taste anyway. A doctor told me about it and apparently it's the quinine that does the trick
Had to come back and give and update: I started doing this 6 months ago and it just works! It makes no sense to me, but I used to have real bad leg cramps at night. Not anymore! It just works, period!
My Uncle told me about this 30 years ago. He slept with a small bar in his sock. I have been doing so ever since and it works. I too use the small hotel soaps and suffer restless leg syndrome and cramps when I forget to use it! Thanks for sharing James!!
I have severe restless syndrome. I have bought the stuff from Walmart for it. I’m still suffering with it. I have tried everything so I will try this. I drink plenty of water and I take magnesium .
Here's something to think about regards to a bar soap did you know in some senior homes they wash the elderly with sunlight soap you know that yellow bar of soap because it's supposed to prevent someone from getting bed sores besides turning them so I don't know if that's true or not it could be a story but I understand somebody says it's not a story sunlight bar soap it's a soap that's been around for years
Good stuff, James. Probably about ten years ago my wife would get leg cramps at night. Our neighbor, who once worked as a nurse, told us to put those little bars of soap in a sock down by her feet. I pinned a couple socks to the sheet and it helped tremendously.
Magnesium! Good for thinning hair, it’s one of the most important minerals. I actually had mine checked and was deficient. The kind you buy in the the pharmacy doesn’t absorb very well. There are a number of kinds of it. I use the magnesium citrate. Dr. Mandela has a good video on magnesium. Worth your while looking it up on UA-cam. My hair was literally falling out by the handful. I’m 70 and now I have little “bangs growing “🌝❤️🕊🕊🕊
Thank you James. I have never heard about this. I too have problems with restless leg syndrome and cramps on a regular basis. I will give this a try. God bless brother.
Since I got the restless legs tonight, I’m going to binge your Stanley cook set playlist. Passed it on to my stepdaughter. I added that set to her kit. Thanks again!
Thanks for jogging my over 50 year memory..my Great Aunt was into homeopathic, her brother in law was a Farmer turned Medical Doctor...one of my favorite times was listening to the exchange of information; my Great Aunt had 7 sisters, my Grandma was one of them but when the topic was sleeping with soap at your feet came up both confessed to have used it throughout their lifetime! Thanks for sharing!
Someone left a comment to my comment about leg cramping caused by insufficient magnesium in diet. Yes. If you read labels on canned/packaged foods you’ll see not much magnesium. Fresh green vegetables have magnesium, but I’m not so good at eating enough. Magnesium is the “pump” to get calcium into muscles. Stopped having leg cramps after taking magnesium supplements on a regular basis. However this soap trick is good “first aid” in a pinch.
I've never tried it for RLS, but I've used it for cramps OFTEN! it works within 15 minutes. I've used several types of bar soap; they all work the same. What I do for the leg cramps is rub the soap on my legs. I actually get it a little bit wet to get it to stick. My Dr's have called me crazy for using soap like that. UNTIL they shared with others who used it and said it worked! Thanks for explaining how it works. I tried figuring that out years ago and never could. I just decided it worked, and that's all that matters. I had tried pickles and mustard and stuff like that first. None of those worked. I'm totally going to try it for RLS as it keeps me awake some nights. Which of you have it you know it sucks!
Dill pickle juice works very well on leg cramps. Did try soap for RLS years ago but it didn't help. Maybe it wasn't close enough to my feet. Will try putting it in a sock to see if that works for me. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us.
I just made a small pouch after seeing this and going to do this tonight! I work construction during the day then leatherwork @ night after work and when I can't sleep... looking forward to a restful night sleep tonight. Haven't slept since last year! It's January 1st so happy new year to all 👍🕶👍
@@WayPointSurvival Yes, there are many reasons why things result in physical suffering. A friend lost most of her hair and was told to go on anxiety meds, but she was simply deficient in B vitamins.
It is amazing how many tips and tricks passed down to some generations are now being considered "true" to help with certain ailments without having a doctor's prescription and work just as well!
We need to help everyome we can so if different people know different remedies post them so all the rest of us can know about it.....truly greatful for the info.thanks
Many "old wives tales" are still true. Sad how once pharmaceuticals became the go-to (for many reasons), anything cured by nature or similar means became known as worthless.
I admitted myself into a hospital because depression. The first two nights I suffered restless leg and could not sleep. It was around 1 o’clock in the morning I walked up to the nurses station and a male nurse was working that night. I told him I could not sleep. He walked in the back room and came out with a little bar of soap, and told me to put it next to my feet under the sheets. I did and it actually worked! Someone told me it’s the potassium in the soap. But it does work!
Neat little trick! I'm a very light sleeper and sometimes find it hard to go to bed, so I'm just might give this a try. I mean who knows homeopathic ways are better than doctor's ways sometimes. Good video 👍
I spent the majority of my life outdoors, 1st cub scouts, 2nd boyscouts & finally Army & I wish I had known about this especially in my Army life, those ruck marches "etc" and the restless leg syndrome do take a major toll on us. Thank you for sharing, I will try this out tonight. Best regards & Merry Christmas.
Interesting! I will tell you that mustard has been a LIFE SAVER on multiple occasions over the years. I have a night bag that I keep with me when camping. I have several packs of mustard in there always. I have been awakened in the night with leg cramps so bad I couldn't get out of my house if it were on fire. It's rare but I can't imagine being in that situation in a hammock lol! I try to always have that kit at arms reach in the field.
Thank you for sharing this valuable and vital information ! I’m a female but I take a males dose 400 mg of magnesium daily and I still get leg cramps and I still have a hard time sleeping so I take 2mg of Ativan ( lorazepam ) every evening at 8:30 pm and I fall asleep by midnight ! Maybe this soap idea is somehow helping the magnesium metal electrolytes to be released in a form that many doctors don’t know about ! I certainly never heard this from any doctor ! If it works then I will not have to take Ativan any more because even with the Ativan by 4:30a.m. I’m straight awake then exhausted all day ! Once again thanks ! I really appreciate this info and if it works I’ll tell my doctor about it and let you know too ! Have a great Christmas 🎄 and may the New Year of 2022 be super great for you ! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️😊😊😊
I hope it helps you, and I think you've been spot on, somehow it must catalyse the benefits.... I'm going to try this. Edit: no gain, no benefit for me.
Wow thank you! Is. It the lye in the soap? I found something about soap for RL There are various hypotheses with regard to the role of soap in relieving cramps. Loss of electrolytes in the body is said to be a contributory factor for development of cramps. Soap contains sodium, which may supply certain electrolytes to the body, thereby relieving cramps. In the next comment is the link.
What a great idea, I will definitely pass on this knowledge to family members. Thanks WayPoint, I always find interesting hacks and new ideas on your channel. Keep up the great work.
I heard about this from one of my nieghbors who was going to try it. He said it worked for him. Years later my wife was having an issue and we tried it. It worked for her so I can second this. We used a bar of Irish Spring and another time a bar of Dove soap. I'm not sure if the brand matters, we just used what we had on hand.
All that matters is that you believe it. I'll bet you $100 that you can replace the soap with a piece of wood in the bag as long as you don't tell and it will keep "working". It is a burlap bag of placebo. What a whacky channel of "survival" advice.
Ok I’m trying this one. I have to take medicine for restless leg syndrome and still have tons of problems sleeping cause my legs go nuts. Thank you for the advice.
@@woodendummyboxing I'm now on a Parkinson's Disease medication because the RLS meds are not strong enough. My last sleep study the nurse couldn't get over how my legs go all night.
I'm glad I saw this. I suffer from severe leg/thigh cramps regularly at night. I have a hard time getting to sleep and find it impossible to even lay down again after being awakened by cramps. Sometimes it's both legs at the same time. I don't need to tell you that the pain is intense. I'll be trying this out starting tonight. My preventative so far has been fluids high in Potassium, but they are only so-so in helping me. Maybe this will do the trick.
If you can, eat a whole avocado every day and/or supplement magnesium. I also have to practically guzzle water when I feel a cramp coming on... as I do this, the cramp starts to go away, so I keep plenty of water on my nightstand. I also put a small amount of pink salt in the water to provide minerals.
The bottoms of the feet are an efficacious method of both delivering medication and detoxing the body. Soaking feet is a good detox. Don't use epsom salts unless you want more magnesium. And, if you do use epsom salts, add a calcium supplement, as magnesium pulls calcium. To use the soap bar without the bag, just put it in an all cotton white sock and wear socks to bed.
Definitely important info on the detoxing. Ionic foot baths can give amazing results. One thing I wanted to mention is that many people have too much calcium or take the wrong forms. It's best to not supplement if you can get it through food or food-sourced supplements. More problems come from lack of magnesium, not calcium.
Thanks for this video. I was diagnosed with RLS many years ago. I had bad side effects from the medicine prescribed for treatment so I quit taking it (with my doctor’s consent). Instead, he suggested taking the smallest dose of melatonin and 200mg of magnesium capsule about 1/2 hour before I go to bed. Typically I now sleep soundly. I subscribed to your channel and commented because I think you are producing excellent quality and useful content on you UA-cam channel. I’m looking forward to future topics and catching up on previous offerings.
Thank you so much! I'm glad that you are enjoying the channel and I hope that you find this useful for you. Just remember, as I told other commenters, not everything works 100% of the time for everyone.
Never heard of this home remedy. My grandmas were both a wealth of knowledge on remedies and food but I never heard of this one. Thank you. Over the years me and my son have both suffered with RLS and even chiropractor didn’t help. No issues anymore but will still use it because it may benefit a detox of sorts.
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My Chiropractor told me to put a bar of soup between the mattress and the bottom sheet on my bed, any kind of soap and it would help me with my muscle cramps and other pain (I have fibromyalgia). For me specifically, he said it didn't matter where I put the bar of soap, as long as it was near my body. And it worked.
I started putting a bar of soap in a mesh drawstring bag safety pinned to the sheet at the foot of my bed & I haven’t had to take my prescription meds for Restless Leg for a week now. The soap is high in magnesium. It’s amazing.
I fully agree with you and with the author of the video about the effectiviness of this trick: my 79 years old wife and her twin sister have been using it ite past 9 years for their night cramps with near 100% of success. Almost every time that they forget the trick -mainly during travels- they suffer again the pain of the cramps. But I disagree about the reason. The soap used for cleaning, never have Magnesium in quantitative amounts. I kow about it because I´m chemist. Happy New Year from Spain.
As far as I Know, there is not any rational explanation about its effectivity, but it doesn´t mean that it acts exclusivelly as a placebo. My wife is a retired nurse and she used to recomend this trick to several customers whith witch she had enough confidence. The main ingredients used to produce a soap are water, fatty acids and caustic soda. So the main metal ion are Sodium or Potasium (never Magnesium, unless the "soap" has been designed as an ingredient of industrial greases) I learned about it in a a french book titled "The secrets of the best healers" that I readed 20-30 years ago.
I’ve used soap rubbed on leg to relieve muscle cramps, read it on a forum about leg cramps. My best guess is there’s ion exchange going on. Thanks for making it more public.
I found that I was VERY deficient in ALL minerals and B vitamins. I was having 'trigger finger' and terrible foot and calf cramps at night and ligament and tendon pain(think shin splints in the forearms which hurts worse than getting shot) and grinding my teeth to the point of breaking them in my sleep!!! 0_o I started taking a liquid multi mineral supplement and magnesium and manganese and a 'super B-vitamin complex' and a very complete multi-vitamin and p-5-p B6 and.......I am much better now, after about 2 1/2 years. I still have issues but much less severe.....and the 'trigger finger' is GONE, thank god. I was at the point of not being able to use my left hand with that, but the p-5-p B6 worked!!! God bless you for helping ease the suffering of people. Sometimes its the small things that work the miracle for someone :)
I take bone meal and vitamin k2 to prevent leg cramps, back spasms and fast heart beat. I don't take it every day but if I don't take it for 2 weeks the fast heart beat problem returns.
That’s pretty cool I’ve never heard that before I don’t have that problem but I have an older cousin that does I’ll have to pass the information along to him thanks and have a good evening
Great idea and I plan to do this. I would like to add that since magnesium is essential but hard to absorb in quantities that we need, a method called Magnesium "oil" is a huge help for cramps and better sleep. You would get Magnesium flakes (ancient mineral ) and dissolve as much as possible into warm water that you stir on low flame. Only warm is needed. This feels oily when put on the skin, but it's not. Rinses off with water. Apply on your whole body if you can, and leave on 20-30 minutes. You will absorb through the skin.
Great tips. When I first started with lifting heavy weights I would eat 2 bananas and drink water before bed to prevent sore muscles.I will have to try the soap trick
This idea reminds me of something a guy told me once. He said a native American trick they use to practice was if they had a fever they would take potatoes peelings and put them at their feet and the fever would eventually go into the potatoes. Don't know if it works , but your video reminds dedicated me of this
Yes it works.... I use to cut round potatoes and took sewing string and make a bracelet or a necklaces and put around my children neck or arm and that fever would go into the potato. It would turn black.
I've eradicated a cyst from my head simply by grating a potatoe and placing it in a cloth and then over the cyst. I did this for 2 hours and it reduced substantially! The rest I squeezed out over a couple of days. Or just keep doing the potato poultice over a few days till gone.
That's interesting! I hike quite a bit and from time to time there's the occasional cramp! I will give it a try as the problem arises, thanks for the info!😊
You had me at "muscle cramps at night". Particularly leg or calve cramps. The worst are ham string cramps. I always keep a bottle of water filled with half apple cider vinegar and half water to kill muscle cramps. Just three of four good sized swigs does the trick. I also take 500 milligrams of magnesium per day to prevent the cramps. Now, I'll try this too. I have a bunch of small burlap bags with drawstrings that I ordered off of eBay that'll work perfectly.
Being low in potassium will cause leg cramps. And if you take a pill, of potassium, make sure to take a magnesium pill with it as our bodies don't break down the potassium without the help of magnesium. Love your videos. Great info. God bless
A bar of soap is very basic in ph factor. Meaning it can help cancel out acid. Lactic acid among other acids build up in the body, causing these issues(cramps ect). So it makes perfect sense that it could change the ph balance in the body to help stop cramps and other ph balance problems. Keeping in mind that the less processed the soap is the better at this function it would be. For example french milled soap or super fatted soap would be more acidic and therefore not work as well as let's say a homemade handmade lye soap. Don't have the soap to use, but need it for the leg cramps use wood ashes from your fire(cooled off of course and placed in a coffee filter, cloth bag, ect to keep your bedding clean). Fun fact, homemade soap can been made from water poured through wood ashes as the wood ashes contain lye hence the name lye soap.
I supplement with magnesium every day and it definitely helps with leg cramps, but I also have to drink plenty of water over the night. I also supplement with potassium and put a small amount of pink salt (for the minerals) in my water bottles beside my bed for staying hydrated overnight. If I don't do these things, I always get cramps. I am additionally going to try this soap thing anyway... maybe I won't have to wake up so many times a night. I have also noticed that I do better at night if I eat a whole avocado every day, but I don't always have them in the house.
I don't really buy but I never tried it either. Usually it's due to a B-1 and potassium deficiency. A B-1 and a potassium glutamate pill before bedtime and I sleep like a rock after a hard day on my feet.
We've been using soap for restless leg for 45 yrs. As long as its between foot and knee it works. We usually use ivory, cause my great grandma said they did that when ivory first came out. Glycerin soaps do not seem to help.
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I think you will like this little trick. I know, I know, this isn't completely unknown. However, the title is purposely hyperbole because there are enough people that don't know about this that I think it's important to get the word out. Thanks for watching and please leave me a comment in the section below!
That’s a new one on me. I get leg cramps sleeping in a bed. If I’m on the ground (or the floor) there’s no problem. But anything softer than shag carpet, and it is a challenge to stay asleep.
I’m gonna have to try this.
Thanks 😎
Excellent. Glad you like the video and find it useful.
Thanks for the information that's pretty interesting I don't have that problem but if you would do me a favor and not use those 50 Cent words that makes me have to look them up and see what they mean I certainly would appreciate you being down-to-earth and using simple words for simple people. Thanks have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!
Mate, I have dreadful restless legs syndrome.... 30 years of it, now on a bad drug that does me good yet promotes daytime fatigue... and I get cramps. I am going to wear 2 bars of soap - each one between 2 layers of socks - if it helps me at all and I can slowly slowly ween off "sifrol" I will be forever grateful. Update: did not help. Tried a few nights. Oh well.
I cant help but feel its my fault you had to point out that the title is purposely hyperbole because of my comment the other day, i was honestly only joking when i made that comment and i find your videos extremely useful and interesting. Going to have to give this one a try as i often has restless legs and difficulty sleeping
Thanks James, I had forgotten about this. I’m American Indian (Cherokee/Osage), my Grandmother was a Healer (as was her Mother and her Mother before back to 1800 that is documented. She always made her own soap and added herbs and “Medicinals” to it. I remember that she added lavender and comfrey leaves and ground roots to the soaps to put by your feet. She put them in old worn out socks or small light weight bags she made out of old flour sacks. Hope this info helps some one. I’m 70 years old now and wish to continue to be helpful for as long as I can be. Respectfully, B StrongBear
Thanks so much for the wonderful story and for sharing this valuable information in the comment section!
@@WayPointSurvival , Always glad to help, anything I can ever do to help, Please let me know.
Thank you very much for your helpful suggestion I appreciate it !
@@nicolecrystal6765 I am glad to have been of help to you and any others. Somewhere in my collection of papers and books I have my Grandma’s papers and recipes for making different medicinals and soaps. If interested let me know and I’ll try to find them and copy them for you.
I would certainly love to have a copy of those! You can find my email and contact information at www.waypointsurvival.com
I have been using this trick since watching this video. It definitely works for me. The first night I noticed an immediate reduction in the intensity of my restless legs. This trick did not get rid of my problem immediately but every night is much better. I now sleep most nights right through without the restless legs waking me up. I lightly wrapped a bar of Dove Soap in a thin cotton cloth, held closed by some tape, and it stays between my sheets at my feet. A combination of this soap trick, plus magnesium tablets, plus calf stretching (like a jogger does) helps me sleep real well at night. Thanks James.
That's great! So glad it's helping you!
I look at it like the government is trying to ban Sudafed because one ingredient is deemed useless for stuffiness... I use it and if it is a "Placebo" so be it. I will try it after I kick the dog off of the bed, lol.
I come from Germany. Believe it or not. Sometimes I have cramps in my calves at night. My doctor then told me to drink the vinegar water for cornichons or mixed pickles out of the glass. He said it was a recipe from his grandma. IT WORKS . I don't know how or why, but it works .....
cider vinager,pickel juice,even Dove soap all make perfect sense....the ph balance change is the key 🔑 👌 😉 👍
Pickle juice for cramps is an age-old remedy that sailors use, and I've used it for about 20 years since I learned about it. I rarely get cramps / charlie horses but the pickle juice remedy is pretty much 100%.
Salt is the most common electrolyte in the body. You're basically drinking pickle flavor gatorade, of course it works. PH has nothing to do with it though. And soap, no, that's pure placebo
Thanks as a 78 year old disabled gent who is basically bed bound this idea which you say is medically sound could be very helpful to myself and other disabled. Thanks Ian.
Just remember that this is not Medical advice. This is something that helps some people. Thanks for watching.
there's frequencies here on youtube that you can type in for your situation that really help😊 just type in leg cramps or whatever bothers you. God bless
It works. 100%. I've known this for decades, and my mom kept a bar of soap at the foot of her bed for many many years. In fact when mom died, we put a bar of soap by her feet in her casket. She would have thanked us. Haa.
Indeed. Thank you for watching and for adding your experience to the comments.
This info is so amazing. So many reporting good results, and sad that so many have RLS and some have cramps. I tried this out a few days, did not help me and I hope it does help others a lot. Cheers for the New Year from me 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is probably the sweetest comment I've read in a while. I'm sure she smiled down on you for thinking about her rest.
I put in my mom’s lipstick and favorite earrings.
That is absolutely so sweet! ❤️
Thank you for this video. It worked wonders for my grandmother. She has been waking up in the middle of the night several days a week with horrible leg cramps for years. I told her about this and she is so thankful. She has told all of her friends about this.
Thank you again
Excellent. Thank you for sharing the good news about how well it is working. I'm glad that you found the video so helpful!
Did anyone ever explain why or how it works?
This is for real?
Srry thought i was messaging the guy from video
Yes, it is for real. However, just remember that like a lot of things, this doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
Where have you been all of my life?? 😆 I am the Altoids QUEEN. I love the tins and hate tossing them out because they look so handy, mostly for crafts. I had no idea they would make perfect survival kits.
Thank you so much, glad you are enjoying the channel!
I always use anf keep altoid tins sucrets cough drop tins for literally everything to make a EDC kit be it sewing kit earphones flash drives and otg cables adapter or quarters and folded dollar bills to keep in your glove box for the air inflator or a small tank of gas.
I will try this. My wife has chronic cramps. Most ideas fail. Tried vinegar, mustard and pickle juice. The pickle juice works best, probably because she hates vinegar and doesn’t like mustard. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for watching, I definitely hope this helps her.
My husband works on the road so we have a surplus of motel soap. He also has RLS, so we are going to put this to the test! Thanks James for this video! God bless and stay safe!
Excellent. Thank you for watching the video and hope it works well for him.
Did Your husband tested that ? What dies he think about it? Pls let us now🙏🙋🏻♀️
@@alanzuhaus id like to lnow, my mom has really bad RLS and cramps and ill do whatever it takes to help
did it work?
We’re all curious now, did it work?
James, if your body is sufficiently deficient in magnesium that you’re having this problem, wouldn’t it make sense to address the actual nutritional deficiency? After all, magnesium is used for literally hundreds of processes in the body, so by the time leg cramps are a problem at night, chances are you’re really in truly low and it might be affecting other bodily processes. Just saying.
Thanks for your video!
Update: there seems to be a couple of people that are confused about what I’m suggesting. I am suggesting that regular painful cramping like this is not a normal part of being healthy, that symptoms usually have causes that may indicate a larger problem that could be otherwise affecting a person’s body, that people who are suffering like this could consult with their own medical professionals suss our the cause and address it before the inconvenient issue becomes a major problem.
Because remedies that address the symptoms, like James’ suggestion, or pickle juice, (or any number of other home remedies), really are great to get you through the moment, but they don’t address the causative issue, which left unchecked could cause major problems later.
I use magnesium oil on my legs when they start getting restless. Works every time, instantly.
I don't actually suffer from magnesium deficiency. However, the problem can also be caused by a potassium deficiency or a lack of hydration. This is something that a person might use in a survival situation or after a long trek and they're experiencing these issues. However, you would definitely not want to do this and bear territory, you would need to observe all bear protocols.
@@WayPointSurvival Lololol! Noo, I would think not! ( Do this in bear territory, I mean.)
This is a great point. Always look for the root cause & address it! Great video for the tip and the info, tho. Especially if it works someone & it opens their mind up to other natural, attainable remedies.
Sufficiently deficient ??
Wow ! I am going to try this. I am plagued with cramps frequently in my legs, feet, arms and hands and fingers. That is usually when I am very active with them. Thank you for sharing this. I am going to try it. The doctors have not been able to prescribe medicine that works. God bless you and those you love. My love to you and yours ! A friend always !
You're welcome! Hopefully it works for you!
Going to show this to my mother. She’s suffered from restless leg syndrome for 20 years….. real strain on her 😞 gonna have her try this! Thanks for posting! I’ll get back to ya in awhile!
Excellent. However, just like a lot of things, just remember that not everything works 100% of the time for everyone.
You got my attention.i don't have those issues; but sleep evades me. I'll give it a try.
Thanks for watching, hope it works for you and you find it useful.
Something else that’s great for cramps is tonic water, just be sure it has quinine in it , I keep a quart in the fridge all the time . Tastes nasty , but in works great ,and quick . My brothers doctor clued him on this one …
Excellent, thanks for watching!
My dad drank quinine for his legs! Way back in the day
Yes...a doctor will prescribe quinine tablets for RLS if you ask 👍
I use tonic water for cramps and it does work. i discovered I only need to drink a small amount of it. I actually like the taste anyway. A doctor told me about it and apparently it's the quinine that does the trick
Had to come back and give and update: I started doing this 6 months ago and it just works! It makes no sense to me, but I used to have real bad leg cramps at night. Not anymore! It just works, period!
Thanks so much for the update and I'm really happy that it's working for you so well!
My momma suffers from RLS. I cannot wait to show her this vid and for her to try this! Thank you for sharing!🙏
Thanks for watching, glad you liked it!
Magnesium Bisglycinate or citrate help me with RLS also
I use pickle juice, it WORKS, also! I recently read on this site that mustard also works…
My Uncle told me about this 30 years ago. He slept with a small bar in his sock. I have been doing so ever since and it works. I too use the small hotel soaps and suffer restless leg syndrome and cramps when I forget to use it! Thanks for sharing James!!
Excellent, my friend! Thank you for watching and for sharing your personal experience with this method.
Which sock should I put it in? Or both?
I have severe restless syndrome. I have bought the stuff from Walmart for it. I’m still suffering with it. I have tried everything so I will try this. I drink plenty of water and I take magnesium .
Oh just take magnesium before I go to bed thank you
Here's something to think about regards to a bar soap did you know in some senior homes they wash the elderly with sunlight soap you know that yellow bar of soap because it's supposed to prevent someone from getting bed sores besides turning them so I don't know if that's true or not it could be a story but I understand somebody says it's not a story sunlight bar soap it's a soap that's been around for years
Good stuff, James. Probably about ten years ago my wife would get leg cramps at night. Our neighbor, who once worked as a nurse, told us to put those little bars of soap in a sock down by her feet. I pinned a couple socks to the sheet and it helped tremendously.
Indeed. Thanks for watching!
That's so Weird......I'm going to try.
I've heard this before but never tried it. I'm trying it tonight for muscle pain!
I use this at home places under my sheet near my feet. Have both restless legs and cramps. It truly does work like a charm
Magnesium! Good for thinning hair, it’s one of the most important minerals. I actually had mine checked and was deficient. The kind you buy in the the pharmacy doesn’t absorb very well. There are a number of kinds of it. I use the magnesium citrate. Dr. Mandela has a good video on magnesium. Worth your while looking it up on UA-cam. My hair was literally falling out by the handful. I’m 70 and now I have little “bangs growing “🌝❤️🕊🕊🕊
Thank you James. I have never heard about this. I too have problems with restless leg syndrome and cramps on a regular basis. I will give this a try. God bless brother.
Excellent. Thank you for watching and hope it works well for you.
How did it work for you?
Did this shit actually work?
It did work for me!
Since I got the restless legs tonight, I’m going to binge your Stanley cook set playlist. Passed it on to my stepdaughter. I added that set to her kit. Thanks again!
Very good. Thanks so much for your time and the kind comments!
Thanks for jogging my over 50 year memory..my Great Aunt was into homeopathic, her brother in law was a Farmer turned Medical Doctor...one of my favorite times was listening to the exchange of information; my Great Aunt had 7 sisters, my Grandma was one of them but when the topic was sleeping with soap at your feet came up both confessed to have used it throughout their lifetime! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing the experiences.
Wouldn’t it be great to have all of her remedies in one place?!
Someone left a comment to my comment about leg cramping caused by insufficient magnesium in diet. Yes. If you read labels on canned/packaged foods you’ll see not much magnesium. Fresh green vegetables have magnesium, but I’m not so good at eating enough. Magnesium is the “pump” to get calcium into muscles. Stopped having leg cramps after taking magnesium supplements on a regular basis. However this soap trick is good “first aid” in a pinch.
I've never tried it for RLS, but I've used it for cramps OFTEN! it works within 15 minutes.
I've used several types of bar soap; they all work the same.
What I do for the leg cramps is rub the soap on my legs. I actually get it a little bit wet to get it to stick.
My Dr's have called me crazy for using soap like that. UNTIL they shared with others who used it and said it worked!
Thanks for explaining how it works. I tried figuring that out years ago and never could. I just decided it worked, and that's all that matters.
I had tried pickles and mustard and stuff like that first. None of those worked. I'm totally going to try it for RLS as it keeps me awake some nights. Which of you have it you know it sucks!
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your personal experiences!
You're saying you used it for other types of cramps?
Great idea! My wife has lymphedema and has cramping leg issues. I will definitely try this ty!
Excellent. Thank you for watching and hope it works well for her.
I hope it helped. If not, has she looked into lymphatic drainage massage?
Your videos are really finding a place with me. These are quality and creative videos that add to one's life and we'll being. Thank you.
Thank you so much, glad you're enjoying the channel!
Dill pickle juice works very well on leg cramps. Did try soap for RLS years ago but it didn't help. Maybe it wasn't close enough to my feet. Will try putting it in a sock to see if that works for me.
Thanks for sharing your expertise with us.
I just made a small pouch after seeing this and going to do this tonight! I work construction during the day then leatherwork @ night after work and when I can't sleep... looking forward to a restful night sleep tonight. Haven't slept since last year! It's January 1st so happy new year to all 👍🕶👍
Please give us an update. Did it work?
Very good. However, just remember that like a lot of things, this doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
@@WayPointSurvival Yes, there are many reasons why things result in physical suffering. A friend lost most of her hair and was told to go on anxiety meds, but she was simply deficient in B vitamins.
It is amazing how many tips and tricks passed down to some generations are now being considered "true" to help with certain ailments without having a doctor's prescription and work just as well!
Indeed. Thank you for watching!
We need to help everyome we can so if different people know different remedies post them so all the rest of us can know about it.....truly greatful for the info.thanks
Many "old wives tales" are still true. Sad how once pharmaceuticals became the go-to (for many reasons), anything cured by nature or similar means became known as worthless.
I admitted myself into a hospital because depression. The first two nights I suffered restless leg and could not sleep. It was around 1 o’clock in the morning I walked up to the nurses station and a male nurse was working that night. I told him I could not sleep. He walked in the back room and came out with a little bar of soap, and told me to put it next to my feet under the sheets. I did and it actually worked!
Someone told me it’s the potassium in the soap. But it does work!
Excellent. Thank you so much for watching the video for sharing your personal experience with this method.
It's the magnesium in the soap. Potassium actually inhibits the absorption of magnesium.
Neat little trick! I'm a very light sleeper and sometimes find it hard to go to bed, so I'm just might give this a try. I mean who knows homeopathic ways are better than doctor's ways sometimes. Good video 👍
Great, glad you liked it and thank you for watching.
I spent the majority of my life outdoors, 1st cub scouts, 2nd boyscouts & finally Army & I wish I had known about this especially in my Army life, those ruck marches "etc" and the restless leg syndrome do take a major toll on us. Thank you for sharing, I will try this out tonight. Best regards & Merry Christmas.
Thank you so much for watching and I hope it works well for you! Thank you for your service and Merry Christmas!
How did you like it? Did it work for you?
Did it work for you, brother? Did you notice any difference?
Interesting! I will tell you that mustard has been a LIFE SAVER on multiple occasions over the years. I have a night bag that I keep with me when camping. I have several packs of mustard in there always. I have been awakened in the night with leg cramps so bad I couldn't get out of my house if it were on fire. It's rare but I can't imagine being in that situation in a hammock lol! I try to always have that kit at arms reach in the field.
Very good. Thank you for watching and sharing your personal experiences, my friend!
Tonic water and pickle juice help with leg cramps.
It really depends on what is causing the cramps.
Great guidance here from your videos give, you bless many, bless yourself too, thank you.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for sharing this valuable and vital information ! I’m a female but I take a males dose 400 mg of magnesium daily and I still get leg cramps and I still have a hard time sleeping so I take 2mg of Ativan ( lorazepam ) every evening at 8:30 pm and I fall asleep by midnight ! Maybe this soap idea is somehow helping the magnesium metal electrolytes to be released in a form that many doctors don’t know about ! I certainly never heard this from any doctor ! If it works then I will not have to take Ativan any more because even with the Ativan by 4:30a.m. I’m straight awake then exhausted all day ! Once again thanks ! I really appreciate this info and if it works I’ll tell my doctor about it and let you know too ! Have a great Christmas 🎄 and may the New Year of 2022 be super great for you ! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️😊😊😊
Thank you for watching and hope it works well for you!
I hope it helps you, and I think you've been spot on, somehow it must catalyse the benefits.... I'm going to try this. Edit: no gain, no benefit for me.
I feel your pain... I've suffered years of RLS and have to end up taking a cocodamol every night just to be able to fall asleep
Wow thank you! Is. It the lye in the soap? I found something about soap for RL There are various hypotheses with regard to the role of soap in relieving cramps. Loss of electrolytes in the body is said to be a contributory factor for development of cramps. Soap contains sodium, which may supply certain electrolytes to the body, thereby relieving cramps. In the next comment is the link.
Thank you for watching.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard the reason why the soap trip works !! 👍👍
Thank you for watching.
What a great idea, I will definitely pass on this knowledge to family members. Thanks WayPoint, I always find interesting hacks and new ideas on your channel. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for watching!
My grandparents told me about this when I was a kid but I completely forgot about it until now. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for watching!
I heard about this from one of my nieghbors who was going to try it. He said it worked for him. Years later my wife was having an issue and we tried it. It worked for her so I can second this. We used a bar of Irish Spring and another time a bar of Dove soap. I'm not sure if the brand matters, we just used what we had on hand.
Indeed. Thanks for watching and for sharing your personal experiences!
All that matters is that you believe it. I'll bet you $100 that you can replace the soap with a piece of wood in the bag as long as you don't tell and it will keep "working". It is a burlap bag of placebo. What a whacky channel of "survival" advice.
Ok I’m trying this one. I have to take medicine for restless leg syndrome and still have tons of problems sleeping cause my legs go nuts.
Thank you for the advice.
Thanks for watching and glad that you find it useful.
I also have RLS and take medication as well for many years, the only thing so far that completely removed it, is kratom. But it's addictive.
@@woodendummyboxing I'm now on a Parkinson's Disease medication because the RLS meds are not strong enough. My last sleep study the nurse couldn't get over how my legs go all night.
@@krishoogstraat6866 same here, yes medication for Parkinson. My RLS was so bad that I could barely sleep and it affected my life in every way.
Curious if u tried?...if so how'd it work
Wow!!! My father suffered with RLS for yrs. I'm beginning to have it as well. Thanks 4 the tip.
Thanks for watching. Just remember that like a lot of things, it doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
Vit E. Calcium magnesium and potassium a pinch pink salt in you daily water. Cured my body cramps!
Excellent. Thank you for watching,!
So many great tips on this channel! Just became a fan & I will be coming back for more.
Awesome! Thank you!
I'm glad I saw this. I suffer from severe leg/thigh cramps regularly at night. I have a hard time getting to sleep and find it impossible to even lay down again after being awakened by cramps. Sometimes it's both legs at the same time. I don't need to tell you that the pain is intense. I'll be trying this out starting tonight. My preventative so far has been fluids high in Potassium, but they are only so-so in helping me. Maybe this will do the trick.
If you can, eat a whole avocado every day and/or supplement magnesium. I also have to practically guzzle water when I feel a cramp coming on... as I do this, the cramp starts to go away, so I keep plenty of water on my nightstand. I also put a small amount of pink salt in the water to provide minerals.
Just remember that like a lot of things, this doesn't work 100% of the time for everybody. Thank you for watching.
TedBronson, Try drinking pickle juice or take high quality liquid trace minerals. Works instantly for me when I have cramps.
The bottoms of the feet are an efficacious method of both delivering medication and detoxing the body. Soaking feet is a good detox. Don't use epsom salts unless you want more magnesium. And, if you do use epsom salts, add a calcium supplement, as magnesium pulls calcium.
To use the soap bar without the bag, just put it in an all cotton white sock and wear socks to bed.
Indeed. Good information and thank you for watching the video.
Definitely important info on the detoxing. Ionic foot baths can give amazing results. One thing I wanted to mention is that many people have too much calcium or take the wrong forms. It's best to not supplement if you can get it through food or food-sourced supplements. More problems come from lack of magnesium, not calcium.
thanks i'll give it a try never heard of it i have restless leg , fibromyalgia and migraines
Thank you, hope it works well for you. Just remember, like prescription medication, not everything works 100% of the time for everyone.
fascinating! i think these little tips are so brilliant! the things we would never think of! hope there can be more of these soon! 😊
Thank you so much, glad you liked it!
Thanks for this video. I was diagnosed with RLS many years ago. I had bad side effects from the medicine prescribed for treatment so I quit taking it (with my doctor’s consent). Instead, he suggested taking the smallest dose of melatonin and 200mg of magnesium capsule about 1/2 hour before I go to bed. Typically I now sleep soundly. I subscribed to your channel and commented because I think you are producing excellent quality and useful content on you UA-cam channel. I’m looking forward to future topics and catching up on previous offerings.
Thank you so much! I'm glad that you are enjoying the channel and I hope that you find this useful for you. Just remember, as I told other commenters, not everything works 100% of the time for everyone.
Very neat trick. My daughter has restless leg syndrome. I'm doing to pass this trick along to her. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent. Just remember, that like many things in our world, it doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
Never heard of this home remedy. My grandmas were both a wealth of knowledge on remedies and food but I never heard of this one. Thank you. Over the years me and my son have both suffered with RLS and even chiropractor didn’t help. No issues anymore but will still use it because it may benefit a detox of sorts.
Excellent, thanks for watching!
Hello James. Thanks for showing us this trick! Greetings from Switzerland
Felix
You're most welcome! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I have craving for this type of advise. Thank U for sharing it. Keep doing this.
Hoi Felix,
Ich wunsche dir eine gute Rutsch und alle gute sache.
Greetz vom kalifornia.
Ich war fur fest 8 jahr in d schwytz.
Zuri, nuolen/lachen und Schaffhausen.
Scho' ein schone lande..
Unglaublich schon.
Keine besser wandurung.
I am trying this tonight! I have suffered miserably all my life with the worst rls. I hope this will bring some relief at least?
Excellent. I hope it works for you. Just remember, like a lot of things, it doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
An interesting little trick. I have to try this. Thanks.
Thank you for watching.
My Chiropractor told me to put a bar of soup between the mattress and the bottom sheet on my bed, any kind of soap and it would help me with my muscle cramps and other pain (I have fibromyalgia). For me specifically, he said it didn't matter where I put the bar of soap, as long as it was near my body. And it worked.
Very good, thank you for watching! So appreciative of you sharing your personal experiences with this method.
Suzi, did it help with Fybromyalgia? I have that too.
I started putting a bar of soap in a mesh drawstring bag safety pinned to the sheet at the foot of my bed & I haven’t had to take my prescription meds for Restless Leg for a week now. The soap is high in magnesium. It’s amazing.
Excellent. Thank you so much for sharing your personal experience with this method!
I fully agree with you and with the author of the video about the effectiviness of this trick: my 79 years old wife and her twin sister have been using it ite past 9 years for their night cramps with near 100% of success. Almost every time that they forget the trick -mainly during travels- they suffer again the pain of the cramps.
But I disagree about the reason. The soap used for cleaning, never have Magnesium in quantitative amounts. I kow about it because I´m chemist.
Happy New Year from Spain.
As far as I Know, there is not any rational explanation about its effectivity, but it doesn´t mean that it acts exclusivelly as a placebo. My wife is a retired nurse and she used to recomend this trick to several customers whith witch she had enough confidence.
The main ingredients used to produce a soap are water, fatty acids and caustic soda. So the main metal ion are Sodium or Potasium (never Magnesium, unless the "soap" has been designed as an ingredient of industrial greases)
I learned about it in a a french book titled "The secrets of the best healers" that I readed 20-30 years ago.
Thank you! Have a sleep problem. I’m surely going to try this
Thanks for watching, and I hope that it works well for you.
I’ve used soap rubbed on leg to relieve muscle cramps, read it on a forum about leg cramps. My best guess is there’s ion exchange going on. Thanks for making it more public.
Those who suffer from leg cramp, often have a magnesium deficiency ? You need to use a magnesium combination tablet or capsule ? ?
Very good. Thank you for watching the video and for sharing your experiences with this method.
I found that I was VERY deficient in ALL minerals and B vitamins. I was having 'trigger finger' and terrible foot and calf cramps at night and ligament and tendon pain(think shin splints in the forearms which hurts worse than getting shot) and grinding my teeth to the point of breaking them in my sleep!!! 0_o I started taking a liquid multi mineral supplement and magnesium and manganese and a 'super B-vitamin complex' and a very complete multi-vitamin and p-5-p B6 and.......I am much better now, after about 2 1/2 years. I still have issues but much less severe.....and the 'trigger finger' is GONE, thank god. I was at the point of not being able to use my left hand with that, but the p-5-p B6 worked!!!
God bless you for helping ease the suffering of people. Sometimes its the small things that work the miracle for someone :)
You're welcome and may God bless you too!
I take bone meal and vitamin k2 to prevent leg cramps, back spasms and fast heart beat. I don't take it every day but if I don't take it for 2 weeks the fast heart beat problem returns.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing, I'll try that.
I started taking magnesium glycinate lysinate chelated. It has really helped neuropathy in my feet.
Yes, for those who have a magnesium deficiency that can help.
That’s pretty cool I’ve never heard that before I don’t have that problem but I have an older cousin that does I’ll have to pass the information along to him thanks and have a good evening
Great idea and I plan to do this. I would like to add that since magnesium is essential but hard to absorb in quantities that we need, a method called Magnesium "oil" is a huge help for cramps and better sleep.
You would get Magnesium flakes (ancient mineral ) and dissolve as much as possible into warm water that you stir on low flame.
Only warm is needed.
This feels oily when put on the skin, but it's not. Rinses off with water.
Apply on your whole body if you can, and leave on 20-30 minutes. You will absorb through the skin.
Excellent tip!
Definitely worth a try and thank you James, as always another great trick to try.
Thank you for watching!
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Great tip, many thanks :) My daughter suffers from restless legs at night so I will pass this on to her :)
Excellent. However, remember that like a lot of things, this doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
In a regular bed at home, how do you keep the bag of soap near your feet? Does it need to *touch* your feet or just be in the general area?
Generally speaking just in the foot area of the bed.
Placebo effect is amazing.
If it were a placebo, then that would be true.
@WayPointSurvival it is bs. It is a security blanket. It is all in your mind, and nose.
Great tips. When I first started with lifting heavy weights I would eat 2 bananas and drink water before bed to prevent sore muscles.I will have to try the soap trick
Excellent. Thanks for watching and hope it works well for you.
Apple cider vinegar and honey in water helps ease sore muscles, I tried it for my son when he did 2000 push ups in one day! No sore muscles!
It's the best way to end up with a big hungry grizzly bear in your tent in the morning....
And that's why you would never use this in bear territory. You have to use common sense and bear protocols and that type of country.
That was a good video, definitely a handy piece of information, thank you James
Thank you for watching.
Thanks for the video! I also have leg cramps at night sometimes but I use mustard which normally works... but I will try this also!
Thanks for watching, hope all works well for you!
How do you use the mustard? Do you eat some?
Yes. A teaspoon or two
James , great tip , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching and God bless you too!
Between this and the eockwt stove, you got a new sub. Great content!
Awesome! Thank you and welcome aboard!
This idea reminds me of something a guy told me once. He said a native American trick they use to practice was if they had a fever they would take potatoes peelings and put them at their feet and the fever would eventually go into the potatoes. Don't know if it works , but your video reminds dedicated me of this
Interesting. Thank you for watching.
Yes it works....
I use to cut round potatoes and took sewing string and make a bracelet or a necklaces and put around my children neck or arm and that fever would go into the potato. It would turn black.
@@nottobetold5285 Interesting. I know some Asian cultures use half an onion similarly. Thank you for sharing.
I've eradicated a cyst from my head simply by grating a potatoe and placing it in a cloth and then over the cyst. I did this for 2 hours and it reduced substantially! The rest I squeezed out over a couple of days. Or just keep doing the potato poultice over a few days till gone.
@@WayPointSurvival I've also read placing cork at the base of the feet does the same thing as your soap trick.
Thank you!
Wouldn't it be better just taking magnesium?
Not necessarily. It depends on whether or not the problems are caused by a magnesium deficiency or not.
That's interesting! I hike quite a bit and from time to time there's the occasional cramp! I will give it a try as the problem arises, thanks for the info!😊
Very good. Thank you for watching and I hope that it works well for you.
Great idea. Thank you. I wonder if it would work for neuropathy?
That I couldn't tell you. Thank you for watching.
Glad I found this channel. Very useful information. Thanks James!
Thank you for watching and glad you are enjoying the channel!
Can’t wait to try this, my restless leg problem is horrible. Thanks for the tip! Lin H.
Thank you for watching. However, remember that like a lot of things, it doesn't work 100% of the time for everyone.
James, this sounds like a really good idea. I get RLS occasionally. I’m definitely going to give this a try. Thanks much.
Excellent. Thank you for watching and hope it works well for you.
You can also cut up regular sized bars
Indeed. Thank you for watching.
Always interesting and original! Thanks!
Thank you so much, glad that you are enjoying the channel!
Wow never knew this trick will have try thanks for sharing what do you use to keep mosquitos away from your skin any remedy out there?
Yes, try using Yarrow.
You had me at "muscle cramps at night". Particularly leg or calve cramps. The worst are ham string cramps. I always keep a bottle of water filled with half apple cider vinegar and half water to kill muscle cramps. Just three of four good sized swigs does the trick. I also take 500 milligrams of magnesium per day to prevent the cramps. Now, I'll try this too. I have a bunch of small burlap bags with drawstrings that I ordered off of eBay that'll work perfectly.
Excellent. Thanks for watching and I hope it works well for you.
Electrolytes help
Pop in between two layers of socks (?)
@@7hilladelphia That's a good idea.
I just throw the soap by my feet area; no bags needed cause I use lavender for the scent anyways so it add relation along with it!
I'm going to try this, thank you.
Excellent. Just remember that it doesn't work for everyone.
Wow. An amazing trick. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures
Thank you for watching, glad you are enjoying the videos.
Soap Really Works!! I’ve been using it for about 20 years!! Nothing works better than this for cramping legs!! I just keep it near my legs!!
Excellent, thank you so much for watching and for sharing your personal experiences with this method.
Indian Tonic water works got quinine
Being low in potassium will cause leg cramps. And if you take a pill, of potassium, make sure to take a magnesium pill with it as our bodies don't break down the potassium without the help of magnesium. Love your videos. Great info. God bless
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This is so interesting. I really would like to learn more about outdoor survival, and other tips and tricks you have. :)
Thank you for watching. I have a lot of other videos in my video archives that also teach a lot of tips, tricks and techniques for the outdoors.
A bar of soap is very basic in ph factor. Meaning it can help cancel out acid. Lactic acid among other acids build up in the body, causing these issues(cramps ect). So it makes perfect sense that it could change the ph balance in the body to help stop cramps and other ph balance problems. Keeping in mind that the less processed the soap is the better at this function it would be. For example french milled soap or super fatted soap would be more acidic and therefore not work as well as let's say a homemade handmade lye soap. Don't have the soap to use, but need it for the leg cramps use wood ashes from your fire(cooled off of course and placed in a coffee filter, cloth bag, ect to keep your bedding clean). Fun fact, homemade soap can been made from water poured through wood ashes as the wood ashes contain lye hence the name lye soap.
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Never heard the soap trick before. Very interesting.
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That's good info! I've had cramp problems before, gonna try it.
Years ago i thought i was the only one with restless leg syndrome. Well thanks for the tip!!!
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@@WayPointSurvival no problem i appreciate it.
Would taking magnesium supplement before bed work as well? Or are there additional factors to this soap thing?
I supplement with magnesium every day and it definitely helps with leg cramps, but I also have to drink plenty of water over the night. I also supplement with potassium and put a small amount of pink salt (for the minerals) in my water bottles beside my bed for staying hydrated overnight. If I don't do these things, I always get cramps. I am additionally going to try this soap thing anyway... maybe I won't have to wake up so many times a night. I have also noticed that I do better at night if I eat a whole avocado every day, but I don't always have them in the house.
@@ephesians6125, ah, appreciate your input. Must achieve or maintain balance when or where needed.
Magnesium, potassium, or lack of water, there are several reasons why a person might have cramping etc at night.
I don't really buy but I never tried it either. Usually it's due to a B-1 and potassium deficiency. A B-1 and a potassium glutamate pill before bedtime and I sleep like a rock after a hard day on my feet.
Yes, there are other reasons why one might have issues with sleeping.
We've been using soap for restless leg for 45 yrs. As long as its between foot and knee it works. We usually use ivory, cause my great grandma said they did that when ivory first came out. Glycerin soaps do not seem to help.
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Wow 👏, my wife suffers from this , gonna get her to try this , may just ease it up
Thank you for watching, hope it works well for her!