Salve 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-1014.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• the green of elder bark, wild lavender, ca- momile and parsley ; simmer them in fresh butter ; strain it and add to it rosin, beeswax and white diacalon, equal parts
• the leaves of colt’s foot, dry them, and use them as you would tobacco for smoking

Method as extracted

1. Take the green of elder bark, wild lavender, ca- momile and parsley ; simmer them in fresh butter ; strain it and add to it rosin, beeswax and white diacalon, equal parts.
2. Use a large handful of the roots of comfrey, one peck of plantain leaves, and a handful of the oak of Jerusalem; cut small and pound them fine.
3. Press out the juice, add the same weight of sugar as you have of juice, and boil them to a syrup.
4. Take the leaves of colt’s foot, dry them, and use them as you would tobacco for smoking.

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