An excellent Syrup for a Cough

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Historical use wording: a Cough

Source: The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. by Bowker, Pierpont F. nr 99010063 (1851), paragraph-1045.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• hoarhound, coinfrey, sage, and noble liver- wort, equal parts *, simmer these in four quarts of fair water for three hours, over a moderate fire ; strain ofi* and simmer again till quite thick
• a tea-spoon- fiil of the powder every time before you eat
• of white mustard a tea-spoonful every time before you eat, and drink a tea made of strawberry leaves and thoroughwort

Method as extracted

1. Take hoarhound, coinfrey, sage, and noble liver- wort, equal parts *, simmer these in four quarts of fair water for three hours, over a moderate fire ; strain ofi* and simmer again till quite thick.
2. Add one gill of molasses and a very little spirit to keep it from souring.
3. Take a tea-spoonful every time you feel like coughing.
4. Take a tea-spoon- fiil of the powder every time before you eat.
5. Take of white mustard a tea-spoonful every time before you eat, and drink a tea made of strawberry leaves and thoroughwort.

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