Madame Young's Guide to Health: Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.Young, Amelia
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Madame Young's Guide to Health: Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.
Young, Amelia
Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicine, Popular; Women physicians
FOR SORE THROAT, STOMACH, OR BOWELS.--Take of the inside bark of
slippery elm, dried and powdered fine, one teaspoonful, and same
quantity of brown sugar; pour in a little cold water and stir till
mixed; then add a little warm water. Take a teaspoonful once an hour.
For a poultice, it may be mixed with powdered crackers, or ginger,
equal quantities of each, which is excellent for burns, scalds, &c. It
will also remove inflammation, or pain in the eyes.
BUTTERNUT FOR BLISTERS.--Take the green shell of the nut, or the bark
of the root, powdered; keep it moist while applying it. It is much
better than Spanish flies.
FOR PHTHISIC.--Steep the leaves of white cedar; drink a gill three
times a day.
FOR LOCKJAW.--Soak the part affected in ley.
FOR WORMS.--Steep sweet flag and wild turnip together. Take wild aloe
leaves, (Indian hemp,) powder them and sweeten with molasses; tea good
for children.
Make a syrup of equal quantities of the twigs and buds of balm of
gilead, the same of white ash, and molasses; boil them together, and
add a little spirits; it may also be made into pills.
A GOOD SALVE.--Steep princes pine till the strength is out; add fresh
butter or mutton tallow; simmer till the water evaporates.
COMPOSITION.--Take 1 lb. bayberry root, ½ lb. inner bark of hemlock,
½ lb. ginger, 2 oz. cayenne pepper, 2 oz. cloves; mix, pound fine and
sift.
AN EMETIC.--Take butternut bark, from the body and roots: boil till
the strength is out; then strain and boil down sufficient to make into
pills. They operate as an emetic, or cathartic.
Nervine is also good for a puke; with, or without boneset, it is an
excellent remedy for a fever, in the first stages.
NERVE OINTMENT.--Take of bitter sweet bark two parts, of wormwood and
camomile equal parts; moisten with warm water, and add some animal oil;
simmer over a slow fire ten hours; then strain and add 1 oz. spirits
turpentine to each pound of ointment; to be used for bruises, sprains,
callouses, corns or swellings.
GOOD SALVE.--Take 1 lb. beeswax, 1 lb. salt butter, 12 oz. balsam fir;
simmer together and strain; this is excellent for burns and scalds,
after the inflammation is out.
INJECTION.--Burdock seeds soaked in water.
DYSENTERY.--Take rhubarb and nutmeg, on going to bed.
Strawberry leaves and roots are good in cases of dysentery, inward
inflammation, or for derangement in monthly courses. A syrup made of
the berries, is good for jaundice; a decoction from the leaves and
roots, will cure sores, inflamed eyes, and humors in the skin.
EYE WASH.--Take one pint of ripe strawberries and put them into a quart
bottle with half a pint of good rum, fill it up with rain water; then
place it in a bed of horse-dung for one week. This will make a good
wash for inflamed eyes.
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