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-935.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of hoarhound a small handful, and about as much garden colt’s foot, two table spoonfuls of sage, and one of saffron, well simmered together
• four ounces of snake root, four ounces of blood root, and four ounces of yellow dock root^ split and dried well, one ounce of ciimamon, and half an ounce of cloves ; pound them as fine as snuff, and use it as snuff ten or twelve times a day
• an ointment made of melilot, saffron, alder- tags and sugar of lead, simmered in hog’s lard

Method as extracted

1. Take of hoarhound a small handful, and about as much garden colt’s foot, two table spoonfuls of sage, and one of saffron, well simmered together.
2. Strain it off, add half a pint of molasses, and simmer it agam for the space of three hours, with a moderate fire, and while it is hot, add one gill of the best Holland gin.
3. Take four ounces of snake root, four ounces of blood root, and four ounces of yellow dock root^ split and dried well, one ounce of ciimamon, and half an ounce of cloves ; pound them as fine as snuff, and use it as snuff ten or twelve times a day.
4. Take an ointment made of melilot, saffron, alder- tags and sugar of lead, simmered in hog’s lard

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