Glandular Enlargements, To Lessen
Dissolve by a gentle heat two drams of scraped white soap and half a dram of extract of henbane in six ounces of olive oil. Rub the part well twice a day with about half an ounce of the mixture.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Camomile Tea
Put an ounce of camomile flowers into a quart of boiling water; let it simmer for fifteen minutes, then strain. From a wineglassful to a breakfast-cupful to be taken as a dose. When taken warm it acts as an emetic; when cold, as a tonic.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Menses, For Obstruction Of The
Steel filings, two ounces; powdered sugar, two ounces; ginger, two drams. Pound together. One teaspoonful to be taken twice a day in orange wine.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Heartburn, Remedies For
Add two drams of carbonate of magnesia to a cupful of milk, and drink it whenever the rising is experienced.
Eating a raw turnip will also take away the smarting sensation.
The following effervescing drink is also good:— The juice of an orange, with loaf sugar to flavour, and, in proportion to the acidity of the orange, a little bicarbonate of soda. Mix the orange juice, sugar, and water together in a tumbler, then add the soda; stir, and drink while effervescing.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Filed under Remedy | Tags: bicarbonate of soda, carbonate of magnesia, heartburn, loaf-sugar, magnesia, milk, million, orange, soda, sugar, turnip | Comment (0)Boils
Bring these tumours to a head by hot poultices of camomile flowers or white lily root, fermenting with hot water, or by a plaster of shoemakers’ wax. When ripe prick the centre with a needle or slit it with a lancet, and apply bread poultices till the discharge is cleared away. Purify the blood with a course of medicine.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Mustard Whey, for Constipation, &c.
Take a cupful of milk, and the same quantity of water, and boil them together with half an ounce of mustard-seed till the curd separates, then strain. Dose : One dessert-spoonful an hour before breakfast.
A teacupful of the above mixture, taken several times a day, gives great relief in cases of dropsy, palsy, and chronic rheumatism.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Filed under Remedy | Tags: chronic rheumatism, curd, dropsy, milk, million, mustard, mustard seed, palsy, rheumatism, whey | Comment (0)Sleeplessness, To Avert
Various methods have been devised to accomplish this much desired end, but perhaps the following will be found the most effectual, the first especially when the evil results from over-excitement of the brain : — Wet half a towel, and apply it to the back of the neck, pressing it upwards towards the base of the brain, and fastening the dry half of the towel over so as to prevent too rapid exhalation. Warm water may be used, but cold is to be preferred. The effect is rapid, cooling to the brain, and inducing sweeter, calmer repose than any narcotic.
Another method, which the writer has never known to fail, is to lie with the eyes turned up into the head, as though looking into the brain, which is their natural position during sleep.
A pillow stuffed with hops is said to act as a narcotic.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Filed under Remedy | Tags: cold water, hops, insomnia, million, pillow, sleep, sleeplessness, towel, water | Comment (0)Rhubarb, Tincture Of
Rhubarb, two and a half ounces ; lesser cardamom seeds, half an ounce ; brandy, one quart. Digest for seven days, then strain. Dose : From one to three or four spoonfuls. Used for indigestion and weakness of the stomach.
Source: Recipes For The Million
Bandoline: or, Hair Fixature
Gum tragacanth, one dram ; water, half a pint ; proof spirit, three ounces ; otto of roses, ten drops. Soak for twenty-four hours, then strain.
Source: Recipes for the Million
To Remove Sudden Hoarseness
Take a teaspoonful of sweet spirits of nitre in a wineglassful of water. Or a little salt prunella dissolved slowly in the mouth, or eating a piece of anchovy will generally remove it.
The following will likewise be found very useful: — Spermaceti powder, half an ounce ; gum-arabic powder, half an ounce ; elixir paregoric, three drams ; honey, one tablespoonful. Mix, and take a teaspoonful dissolved in the mouth.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Filed under Remedy | Tags: anchovy, gum arabic, hoarseness, honey, million, nitre, paregoric, prunella, sore throat, spermaceti, spirits of nitre, throat, voice | Comment (0)