The Farmers Own Book 11
GUAIACUM, AMMONIATED TINCTURE.
Take 4 ounces powdered gum guaiacum, 1½ pints spirits of amonia, put
them together and let the mixture stand for fourteen days, when it will
be ready for use. Shake the bottle occasionally. This is a celebrated
remedy in the treatment of chronic rheumatism. The dose is from one to
two teaspoonsful three times a day, given in milk or some mucilaginous
tea. The stomach must be well cleaned before the tincture is used, and
the diet light.
COMPOUND TINCTURE OF GENTIAN.
Take of gentian root bruised 2 ounces, orange peel do. 2 ounces, cardamom
seed do. ½ ounce, proof whiskey 1 quart; add the other ingredients to
the whiskey, and shake the bottle once a day for fourteen days, when it
will be ready for use. This is much used in dyspepsia and debilitated
states of the digestive organs. The stomach should be cleaned before it
is given. It is not admissable where there is fever. Dose from one to two
teaspoonsful in water, to be repeated before breakfast, dinner and supper.
OINTMENT FOR MILCH SCALD ON THE FACES OF INFANTS.
Take 6 drachms of beefs marrow, 2 drachms oil of sweet almonds, 1 drachm
red peruvian bark, powdered, mix and melt over a slow fire. Apply every
day, washing it off every morning with mild soap.
SIMPLE TINCTURE OF RHUBARB.
Take of best Turkey rhubarb 3 ounces and pulverize, good whiskey 1 quart,
add the rhubarb to the whiskey and shake it every day for a week, then
let it stand ten days and filter through paper, or let it stand without
filtering. From a tea spoonful to a large table spoonful is a dose
according to the age of the person and nature of the case. It is a good
purgative in costive habits. Take it at bed time in sweetened water.
SIMPLE SYRUP OF RHUBARB.
Take of best Turkey rhubarb 2 ounces, water 1 pint, macerate the rhubarb
in the water warm for twenty-four hours; strain off, add 2 pounds
of refined white sugar and simmer until they are well mixed, add 2
tablespoonsful of whiskey, stop it tight in a bottle for use. This is a
good medicine for infants in teaspoonful doses.
AMERICAN COLUMBO.
_Medical Properties and Use._
This is a mild tonic, calculated to meet the indications alike with
the other bitters of its class. It is a very good and pleasant tonic
in indigestion and dyspepsia, improving the appetite and digestion. It
is given in infusion and in substance--1 ounce of the pulverized root
infused in a pint of boiling water. A small wine glass full of the
infusion may be taken once in 2 hours, or from thirty to sixty grains
of the pulverized substance, in sweetened water, from 3 to 5 times a
day; but the most common way of using the columbo is in combination
with other tonics, such as gentian, orange peel, and columbo, of each 1
ounce powdered, then add to them 1 quart of whiskey, of which bitters
a tablespoonful may be taken in water three times a day, as a tonic in
cases of debility.
BLACK ALDER.
The berries of this plant are sometimes used, but the bark is the proper
medicinal part of the shrub. It is best adapted to the cure of flabby,
ill-conditioned ulcers and mortifications, in which a strong decoction
is freely used with great benefit. It should be given internally several
times a day, as well as applied as a wash and poultice to the parts. A
saturated tincture, both of the bark and berries is used internally.
THE PRICKLEY ASH.
_Its Medical Properties and Use._
The prickley ash has a good reputation in the United States as a remedy
in chronic rheumatism. In that disease its operation seems analogous to
that of mazorion and guaiacum, which it nearly resembles in its sensible
properties. Many physicians place so much confidence in it that it is
generally kept by the apothecaries. It is most frequently given in
decoction--an ounce being boiled in a quart of water and taken in small
quantities, frequently repeated. Dr. George Hayward, of Boston, took it
in his own case of chronic rheumatism with evidently good effect; he
took a pint of the decoction a day, diluted with water so as to weaken
its pungency. The powdered bark may be taken in doses of from 10 to 20
grains, and frequently repeated. Dr. Bigelow says it is also given with
good effect in cases of old indolent sores; it is given internally and
applied to the sore in the form of a wash. Doctors Barton and Thatcher
both speak highly of this medicine.
AMERICAN GENTRAURY.
_Its Medical Properties and Use._
Every part of this plant is a pure and very strong bitter. It is used in
form of tea or tincture and is good for ague and fever. It was used in
the yellow fever at Philadelphia with good effect. It may be given even
when the fever is on, in such quantities as the stomach will bear. It
is not apt to nauseate and is an excellent tonic for the stomach, which
improves the appetite and promotes digestion. It is highly recommended
by Drs. Barton, Chapman and Elliott, all of whom are physicians of high
respectability.
DANDELINE.
Has been much employed in Germany and the United States, and is certainly
a valuable remedy in chronic diseases of the liver and the digestive
organs generally. It is also a good remedy in diseases of the spleen. It
is beneficial in consumption and as a general alterative when combined
with sarsaparilla, and invaluable in scrofula. One ounce of the fresh
root, or ½ ounce of the dried, and the same quantity of sarsaparilla put
into a pitcher and a pint of boiling water poured on it at night, to be
used at pleasure next day, so that all is taken before bed time, or as
much more as the stomach will bear. This repeated for a month, produces a
fine effect on the system, when the blood needs purifying or in cases of
chronic affections of the liver.
BLOOD ROOT OR PERCOON ROOT.
_Medical Properties and Use._
The blood root is an active emetic and cathartic, which acts finely on
the liver. It has been given in pneumonia, catarrh, whooping cough,
croup, consumption, rheumatism, jaundice and dropsy of the chest. For
rheumatism, it may be given in 2 or 3 grain pills, 3 or 4 times a day.
It is an effectual remedy for the yellow water in horses: 3 or 4 ounces
of the fresh root may be bruised and a pint of water added, the juice of
which should be squeezed out for a drench; 1 or 2 doses will cure. It
purges the horse freely. The tincture is often used: 2 ounces of the root
to a quart of spirits makes the tincture, ½ an ounce of which is a dose
for an adult.
BONESET OR THOROUGHWORT.
_Medical Properties and Use._
Thoroughwort is tonic, diaphoretic, and in large doses emetic and
purgative. It is good in intermittent fevers to break the chill, if given
in large doses in the form of warm tea as the chill comes on; in less
doses a little warm it will sweat the patient freely; in large draughts
taken cold it acts as a tonic and prevents the return of the chill. It
is good in pleurisy as a sweat or in heavy colds; it is also good when
made into a syrup for bad coughs, and in some forms of consumption,
where the patient is weak and the skin hot and dry. It grows in almost
every part of the United States, but mostly in the Western and Southern
divisions, and should be gathered in September. Every part of the plant
is medicinal, but the leaves and flowers are best. It should always be
given in the form of a tea.
BITTER ROOT OR SILKWEED.
_Medical Properties and Use._
The root is the part used in the form of bitters in asthma and catarrh,
also coughs and dyspepsia and in rheumatism. It may be taken in the form
of bitters in quantities sufficient to purge gently and freely, or in
powder in 20 grain doses, 3 times a day, or it may be given in strong
infusion, 1 ounce of the root to a pint of water and drink in such doses
as the stomach will bear.
PLEURISY ROOT.
_Medical Properties and Use._
It has long been employed by the regular medical faculty as a valuable
medicine in pleurisy, catarrh, pneumonia, consumption and other diseases
of the breast, and is evidently useful in all these cases. It is good in
acute rheumatism and dyspepsia. It may be given in the form of a strong
tea, or in powder; if in powder from 20 to 60 grains may be given several
times a day, in sweetened water.
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