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Diuretic Sirup

From The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser (1837).

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From The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser (1837), printed page 344, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/2545046R.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

  • 12 oz. Horse radish root
  • 12 oz. Elder bark
  • 12 oz. Golden rod
  • 8 oz. Pulverize
  • two gallons of cider
  • one quart of melasses
  • one quart of Holland gin
  • a gill to a whole one
  • 12 lbs. Wild cherry leaves
  • 6 lbs. Black snake root
  • 1 lb. Add water enough
  • one gill three times per day

Method

  1. Take of, 33lack snake root, 12 oz.
  2. Horse radish root, 12 oz.
  3. Elder bark, 12 oz.
  4. Golden rod, 12 oz.
  5. Ashes of summer grape-vine root, 8 oz.
  6. Pulverize the solid ingredients, then add two gallons of cider;— boil (fown to one, then strain off thy decoction,, and add one quart of melasses, and one quart of Holland gin.
  7. Shake it well together, and bottle up for use..
  8. Dose, from half a gill to a whole one, two or three times a day.
  9. Take of, Sour- wood leaves, 12 lbs.
  10. Wild cherry leaves, 6 lbs.
  11. Black snake root, 1 lb.
  12. Add water enough to cover all the articles, and boil them until the strength is extracted;
  13. then strain and boil down to two gallons;
  14. then add two quarts of melasses, awd one quart of Holland gin;
  15. mix well;
  16. simmer a few minutes, and bottle up for use.
  17. Dose, one gill three times per day, increasing as the patient can bear it.
  18. Useful for dropsy, suppressions of urine, yaws, pleurisy, and the like;' it is also a good tonic to use in recoveries from fever and ague.