Take pepperage chips from the east side of the tree, and make a tea for a constant drink.
Catamenia.—Give a tea of lady shoe, and polly pod roots, for an obstructed catamenia.
Fits.—Take wild indigo roots, make a poultice, and put on the stomach, hands and feet.
To Strengthen.—Take two ounces prickly ash bark and one ounce crawley, and make a syrup. Take half gill three times a day, fasting.
King’s Evil.—A tea of seneca would be good for the patient to drink frequently; for a bath, take white maple bark, boil it and wash the parts affected, and apply the bark as a poultice.
Female Debility.—To prevent raising her food after eating, give her trule root, pulverized, instead of pepper, and tea of the former roots, a little before eating.
Beer.—Take two parts sumach roots, four parts each sassafrass and black alder, two parts wild cherry and spice bush.
Chilblains.—Take off the dirt from an ant-hill; then take the dirt and ants’ eggs, put them into boiling water; draw off the water, and save a bottle of it, to drink two or three times a day, half a gill at a time; with the remainder wash the feet.
To Warm and Cleanse the Blood.—Take prickly ash berries, bark of white wood roots, brook lime, bark of bitter sweet roots and culver, and a little bloodroot.
Syrup for Consumption.—Take one pound bark bitter sweet roots, one pound sarsaparilla roots, one pound inside of black birch bark, one pound twigs of sweet fern, one pound prickly ash bark; put into six quarts water, boil it to four, and strain the liquor into a large pewter basin; add a quart of rum, one pound loaf sugar, and simmer till the scum is raised; skim it off, and put into bottles for use. Take half gill three times a day, an hour before eating.