Submitted by BYU student Ainsley McGhie about people's unofficial folk medicinal therapies, and why they choose them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant's interviews. Includes the author's father's experience with cayenne pepper as a cure for cold sores, a college's student orange juice to keep healthy, a mother's "sick soup", Vick's Vapor rub for sickness, gargling salt water to prevent sickness, and goldenseal root. Prepared for her Winter 2011 English 391 class under Dr. Eliason.