For a Burn

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Historical use wording: a Burn

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-897.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• an onion and cut it in halves, -warm it a very little, (but not roast it, for that decreases its strength, and consequently its virtues,) bind it on the affected part
• two pounds of heart’s ease, the same quan- tity of clover, that grows the north side of buildings, or fences, three leaves of common door yard plan- tain, two ounces of white pine bark, and the same quantity of slippery elm, a table-spoonful of camo- mile, all cut fine, and put into an iron vessel, with one gallon of water
• A dd one pound of loaf sugar, while warm
• a tea- spooniul three times a day, before eating

Method as extracted

1. Take an onion and cut it in halves, -warm it a very little, (but not roast it, for that decreases its strength, and consequently its virtues,) bind it on the affected part.
2. Take two pounds of heart’s ease, the same quan- tity of clover, that grows the north side of buildings, or fences, three leaves of common door yard plan- tain, two ounces of white pine bark, and the same quantity of slippery elm, a table-spoonful of camo- mile, all cut fine, and put into an iron vessel, with one gallon of water.
3. Let this simmer over a slow fire, till the strength is out of the herbs ; sti’ain it, and simmer again till quite thick.
4. Take a tea- spooniul three times a day, before eating.

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