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
DIGESTIVE MEDICINE.--Take tartar emetic, blood root and lobelia, six
grains each, salt petre, fifty grains. It is highly diuretic, and
adapted to all cases of gravel, &c. In back and liver complaints, give
a mild cathartic, or salts, twice a week.
ANTI-SCORBUTIC BITTERS--To purify the blood, which strengthens the
nervous system, creates an appetite, and guards the stomach against
infectious diseases.
_Preparation_: Take one ounce of the bark of the roots of white wood,
one ounce of butterfly root (white root), two ounces of black Indian
hemp, two ounces of angelica root or seeds, four ounces black snake
root, four ounces tamarack bark; add prickley ash bark in cold cases.
Powder them and mix well.
_Directions._--Infuse one tablespoonful in pint of spirits three days,
then strain it, and take from one to three teaspoonsful in a glass of
wine half an hour before dinner.
FOR THE ASTHMA.--Use the lobelia as above directed three days; then
boil goose grease and honey equal parts, one pint; add a tablespoonful
of the lobelia and white root powder, and a tablespoonful of wild
turnip powder; strain after being sufficiently boiled. Dose, a
teaspoonful three times a day, or offener, for three days. Dip a piece
of flannel in hot goose grease and apply it to the lungs or throat,
where the greatest stricture is, for two nights, or more if necessary;
after using the honey and grease two days, take a teaspoonful of the
digestive medicine in two tablespoonsful of water, half at a time, to
loosen the mucous. Next morning take a portion of anti-bilious physic;
continue the other medicines, and take a portion of primhedge once a
week till cured. Tobacco is accounted hurtful for asthmatic people; the
smoking of juniper berries, or stramonium seeds, is recommended, and
taking bay berry root, or catarrh snuff.
Digestive medicine is prepared thus: Take as much tartar emetic as will
lay on the handle of a teaspoon, twice that of blood root, the same
of lobelia, and one teaspoonful of saltpeter, to one pint of water;
this corrects the stomach in every case of oppression, and promotes
expectoration and respiration; promotes rest and breaks up fevers.
Dose--a teaspoonful in a wine glass of water; take a tablespoonful
every three hours until relieved.
_Remarks._--For putrid or common sore throat, and quinsy. Make a gargle
thus: take sumach berries when sour, black snake root, and sage, equal
parts; boil strong to a pint; add two teaspoonsful of saltpeter, and
sweeten with honey or molasses; gargle often, and swallow a spoonful
at a time. If the throat or tongue swells, boil nanny bark in a
little water, and bind it hot around the throat once an hour, chewing
the same. Bittersweet ointment will allay all heat and swelling.
Anti-bilious physic--first in all fevers; primhedge, to restore
strength to the patient and regulate the bowels.
OINTMENT FOR SORES, BOILS, &c.--Use the parsley ointment.
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