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Sweating Powders

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

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From The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser (1837), printed page 339, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/2545046R.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Take of, Hemlock, inner bark, 4 oz.
  2. Shell-bark hickory, ross or outside bark, 4 oz.
  3. Ginger, 4 oz.
  4. Sumach, bark of the root, 4 oz*- Sassafras, bark of the root, 4 oz.
  5. Cayenne, 1 oz.
  6. Cloves, 1 oz.
  7. Reduce all the ingredients to a fine powder, and mix them thoroughly.
  8. This compound will be found a very good one to produce a free perspiration.
  9. Take of, (rum myrrh, Peach kernels, Blue flag, green root, African cayenne, Alcohol, 4 quarts.
  10. Pulverize all the solid ingredients, and add them to the alcohol:— the blue flag root being fresh, can only be bruised.
  11. Digest eight or ten days in a hot sun heat, shaking it two or three times a day.
  12. This tincture is not only valuable for its diaphoretic properties;
  13. but it is also good for colds, pains in the stomach, colic, headache, dysentery, diarrhea, internal inflammation, or mortifications, &c.
  14. Dose, from one to four tea-spoonsful, repeated at discretion.
  15. Take of, Gum myrrh, Nutmeg, Cayenne, Alcohol, 2 quarts.
  16. Reduce all the articles to a fine powder, and add them to the alcohol.
  17. Digest ten days, shaking it two or three times every day.
  18. Dose, from a tea-spoonful to a tablespoonful, repeated as often as circumstances require.
  19. Useful for the same purposes that the foregoing one is;
  20. and it may be added, that few articles of medicine, can be found of more general utility for family use, than the two above described tinctures.
  21. Where the bathing drops, described in this work are not at hand, either of these tinctures, make a valuable substitute, both in easing pain, or arresting mortification.
  22. Take of, Gum m\rrh, 8 oz.
  23. Blue flag root, fresh, 4 oz.
  24. Capsicum, 2 oz.
  25. Alcohol, 2 pints.
  26. .Reduce the myrrh,, and capsicum to a fine powder, and bruise the blue flag root well;
  27. then put them into the alcohol, and digest ten days in a hot sun heat, shaking it often, then strain or filter, and bottle up for use.
  28. Dose, from one to three tea-spoonsful, repeated as often as the case may require.
  29. This preparation is stronger than either of the foregoing, and is to be used in the more obstinate cases, where the others prove too weak.