Cure for Dyspepsia
Mix together equal quantities of bran and sugar, brown like coffee, and take two or three times a day.
Source: 76: A Cook Book
To Remove Disagreeable Odors from the House
Sprinkle fresh ground coffee, on a shovel of hot coals, or burn sugar on the shovel. This is an old-fashioned disinfectant, still good.
Source: Things Mother Used To Make, L.M. Gurney
Simple Disinfectant
The following is a refreshing disinfectant for a sick room, or any room that has an unpleasant aroma prevading it: Put some fresh ground coffee in a saucer, and in the centre place a small piece of camphor gum, which light with a match. As the gum burns, allow sufficient coffee to consume with it. The perfume is very pleasant and healthful, being far superior to pastiles, and very much
cheaper.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
An Agreeable Disinfectant
Sprinkle fresh ground coffee on a shovel of hot coals, or burn sugar on hot coals. Vinegar boiled with myrrh, sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room, is an excellent deodorizer.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
For a Dry, Irritating Cough
Smoke in a common clean pipe equal quantities of ground coffee and rich pine saw-dust. My husband finds almost instant relief when his throat and lungs are sore. Swallow all the smoke you can.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Coffee to Purify a Sick-Room
Coffee, dried and pulverized, then a little of it sprinkled upon a hot shovel will, in a very few minutes, clear a room of all impure effluvia, and especially of an animal character.
Source: Dr Chase’s Recipes, or Information for Everybody, A.W. Chase
Headache, Lemon Juice and Coffee for
“A teaspoonful of lemon juice in a small cup of black coffee will relieve.” This is an old tried remedy and one that will be found beneficial.
Source: Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada, T. J. Ritter
Hay fever, Our Canadian Remedy for
“Inhale smoke from ground coffee (sprinkle over coals). This relieved a case for me of five years standing.”
Source: Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada, T. J. Ritter