For the Dropsy

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Historical use wording: the Dropsy

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-1147.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• half a pound of elecampane root, and half a pound of blue flag root
• Boil this in two gallons of water
• To one quart add one pint of molasses
• half a gill before eating, three times a day
• two ounces of sassafras root bark, two ounces of blood root, two ounces of coltsfoot, and two ounces of gum myrrh
• Steep these in two quarts of spirit, live on simple diet and drink a small glass every morning
• For common drink make a beer, of barley malt one peck, one pound of comfrey root, two pounds of spikenard root, two ounces of burdock roots, black spruce boughs five pounds, fennel seed four ounces, angelica root one jround
• beef bones, burn them in the fire till they become white, pound them fine, sift them, mix the powder with molasses ; take it three times a day, before eating

Method as extracted

1. Take half a pound of elecampane root, and half a pound of blue flag root.
2. Boil this in two gallons of water.
3. Take half a gill before eating, three times a day.
4. Take two ounces of sassafras root bark, two ounces of blood root, two ounces of coltsfoot, and two ounces of gum myrrh.
5. Steep these in two quarts of spirit, live on simple diet and drink a small glass every morning.
6. Take beef bones, burn them in the fire till they become white, pound them fine, sift them, mix the powder with molasses ; take it three times a day, before eating.

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