Bitters to go with the above Syrup

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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-1008.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• bitter root, poplar bark, and the leaves of snake’s head and barberry bark, equal parts ; dry these and pound them fine ; sift them through a fine sieve ; take a tea-spoonful of this in a wine glass full of warm water, sweetened, every morning before eating
• Simmer in three quarts of water, one pint of bar- ley, four ounces of elecampane, and one pound of turnips ; boil these, and after it is strained simmer it doivn to one pint ; add one pound of loaf sugar or honey, and half a pmt of brandy
• a table spoonful three times a day
• one ounce of snake’s head, two ounces of colt’s foot root, one ounce of bloodroot, two ounces of sassafras root hark, one ounce of gum myrrh, winter bark one ounce ; steep these in two quarts of spirit, drink a glass every morning before eating

Method as extracted

1. Take bitter root, poplar bark, and the leaves of snake’s head and barberry bark, equal parts ; dry these and pound them fine ; sift them through a fine sieve ; take a tea-spoonful of this in a wine glass full of warm water, sweetened, every morning before eating.
2. Simmer in three quarts of water, one pint of bar- ley, four ounces of elecampane, and one pound of turnips ; boil these, and after it is strained simmer it doivn to one pint ; add one pound of loaf sugar or honey, and half a pmt of brandy.
3. Take a table spoonful three times a day.
4. Take one ounce of snake’s head, two ounces of colt’s foot root, one ounce of bloodroot, two ounces of sassafras root hark, one ounce of gum myrrh, winter bark one ounce ; steep these in two quarts of spirit, drink a glass every morning before eating.

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