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Source: Mother's Remedies by Thomas Jefferson Ritter (1910), narrative-offset-1389873.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- tansy: the following in wineglassful doses:--One ounce each of ground pine, southern wood, tansy, catnip and germander, simmering in two quarts of water down to three pints and pour boiling hot on one ounce of pennyroyal herb,
Method as extracted
- Boil according to the source passage: Painful Menstruation, a Good Tonic for.--"This may be relieved by sitting over the steam of a strong decoction of tansy, wormwood, and yarrow, and fomenting the abdomen with the same. Then take the following in wineglassful doses:--One ounce each of ground pine, southern wood, tansy, catnip and germander, simmering in two quarts of water down to three pints and pour boiling hot on one ounce of pennyroyal herb, strain when cold and take as per dose above." 2. Painful Menstruation, a Home Remedy for.--"Let the patient take an active cathartic; then when put to bed let a half cup of hop tea be given; and a douche of one quart of hot water into which ten drops of laudanum have been dropped, be injected." A cathartic is not necessary in all cases.
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Primary and supporting references
- Mother's Remedies — Project GutenbergPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1389873.