Oil for Diarrhoea
Take Mullen blossoms, fill a bottle and hang it in the sun until the oil is all extracted, then drain into another bottle. Dose, from a half to a tea-spoonful, until a cure is effected.
Source: Recipes: Information for Everybody, J.F. Landis
Specific for a Cough
Take equal quantities of camomile flowers, elecampane, life-everlasting, mullen, a few races of ginger, and as much fat lightwood splinters as camomile. Boil to a strong tea; strain it, and add enough honey and sugar mixed in equal quantities; boil down to a syrup; add enough good apple vinegar to give a pleasant acid taste. Pills made of fresh tar, brown sugar, and the yolk of an egg,
are good for a cough. Pills of fresh rosin taken from the pine tree are also good.
Source: Mrs Hill’s New Cook-Book