Syrup for Jaundice

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Historical use wording: Jaundice

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-1037.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• the bark of black cherry tree, white ash, butternut tree, and white poplar, one pound each
• Cut these up fine, and put them into three gallons of water, boil it half away, then strain it and simmer it down to one quart, then add to this half a pint of proof spirit, and as much more molasses
• a table spoonful two or three times a day ; or if this is not enough to keep the bowels open, enlarge the dose
• one ounce of cloves, of cinnamon one ounce, bitter root one ounce, of the inner bark of hemlock one ounce, well pulverized together
• Add this to two quarts of Holland gin

Method as extracted

1. Take the bark of black cherry tree, white ash, butternut tree, and white poplar, one pound each.
2. Cut these up fine, and put them into three gallons of water, boil it half away, then strain it and simmer it down to one quart, then add to this half a pint of proof spirit, and as much more molasses.
3. Take a table spoonful two or three times a day ; or if this is not enough to keep the bowels open, enlarge the dose.
4. Take one ounce of cloves, of cinnamon one ounce, bitter root one ounce, of the inner bark of hemlock one ounce, well pulverized together.
5. Add this to two quarts of Holland gin.
6. Let your diet be milk, with a table spoonful of the best brandy you can get in it, and any kind of light bread, and drink a tea made of strawberry leaves, with a red pepper broke in it.

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