Vicks Vapor Rub and other solutions

Tonight I was talking to a friend on the phone who has a nasty cold. She said she read online that if you put Vicks Vapor Rub on your toes and then put on extra warm socks it helps you stop coughing. How your toes and your throat are related - I don't know, but 100% of the people that tried it said it worked. Personally I hate the smell of the stuff, and I don't have a cough, but I wished her good luck and I'm anxious to hear the results.
I couldn't help but think of all the other crazy solutions to life little irritations that we have. I once had a mole on my face. Someone told me if you put aloe vera on it every day it would fall off. So for a week I tried it. It didn't.
Someone else told me that putting duct tape on your wart makes it go away. (Now I love duct tape and believe it holds the world together) But it didn't make my wart go away.
Solutions: that's what we all want in this life.
Another friend and I talked about the challenges of YSA, how to get people to come, how to get them to talk to each other when they come and what to do when they don't. Believe me, as a YSA rep, I could use some major solutions for that, unfortunately I'm not sure it something duct tape, aloe vera or Vicks could handle, but I like the idea of a quick fix.
Despite the fact that I feel a little silly trying quick remedies I can't help but hope, really one of these time the fix is just going to be that easy. After all, who knows . . .