Decoction of camomile

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Source: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), narrative-offset-1410529.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• camomile: of camomile flowers, one ounce ; elder flowers, and sweet fennel seeds, of each half an ounce ; water, two quarts

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: To the strained liquor add an ounce and a half of aromatic water. — “Sir John Pringle recommends this as a proper medicine towards the decline of malignant fevers, when the pulse is low, the voice weak, and the head affected with a stupor, but with little delirium.— -The dose is four spoonfuls every fourth or sixth hour. The Decoction for a Clyster. — Take of camomile flowers, one ounce ; elder flowers, and sweet fennel seeds, of each half an ounce ; water, two quarts. Boil them for a little, and then strain the decoction. — A medi- cine equally good may be prepared by infusing the ingredients for some ! hours in boiling water. — This decoction is chiefly intended as the basis of clysters, to which other ingredients may be occasionally added.

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