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
MALLOWS.--An excellent remedy for phthisic, and for effections of the
chest. Also good as a syrup, when ladies expect to be confined; if
costive, they will be much benefited by a frequent use of the tea. The
juice, mixed with boiled oil, is good for all tumors, scurf, dandruff,
sores on the head, scalds, burns, St. Anthony’s fire, and all feverish
and painful swellings. The blows, boiled in water, adding a little alum
and honey, will cleanse and heal sore mouth or throat. A tea, made of
this, is good for hoarseness, coughs, shortness of breath, gravel and
dysentery.
CONSUMPTIVE COUGH MIXTURE.--Take one tablespoonful of good tar, three
ditto of honey, three yolks of eggs, half a pint of good wine; beat
the tar, eggs, and honey well together, then add the wine; dose,
a teaspoonful three times a day. Make a tea of barley, and drink
frequently.
GRAVEL.--Heart’s Ease is good.
WORMS.--A decoction made from witch hazel, or spotted alder bark,
scraped off downward, is a good remedy.
Take sage, pounded fine, put in milk, sweetened with molasses, to which
add a little alum, is good to turn worms.
RHEUMATISM.--Princes pine, horse-radish, elecampane, wild cherry,
mustard seed, a small handful of each; one gill of tar, one pint
of brandy; let it stand three days, shaking it often. Dose, two
tablespoonsful three times a day.
HECTIC COUGH.--Take one pint of barley, one pound of turnips, four
ounces of elecampane, three quarts of water; boil to one pint, and then
add one pound of honey or loaf sugar, and half a pint of brandy; dose,
one tablespoonful three times a day.
CANADA THISTLE--Blows or roots, are good for dysentery and piles.
SICK OR NERVOUS HEADACHE.--Take half a pint of white pine bark, half a
pint of hemlock bark, one gill of sassafras bark, taken from the root,
one gill black cherry bark; dry these and pulverize them to a powder;
put them into two quarts of good brandy, and take a tablespoonful three
times a day, thirty minutes before eating.
MOTHERWORT--Is good in all female complaints, trembling at the heart; a
few of the leaves, powdered, and a small tablespoonful taken in wine,
helps women in travail, and prevents suffocation; it is also good for
cramps when females have taken cold.
THOROUGHWORT.--The leaves of this plant, steeped in rum, is a good
remedy for all kinds of bruises; the expressed juice of the leaves,
with butternut oil, makes a useful pill; the blows, steeped with leaves
of the nervine, make a good vomit.
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