Simmer a few minutes.
Use.—In all painful bruises.
Relaxing Fomentation
| Powdered lobelia | 2 ounces. |
| Boiling water, | 2 quarts. |
Simmer for a few minutes, and when sufficiently cool, bathe the parts with a soft sponge.
Use.—In all cases of stiff joints, and rigidity of the muscles. Animals often lie down in wet pastures, from which rheumatism and stiffness of the joints arise. In such cases, the animal must be taken from grass for a few days, and the affected parts be faithfully bathed.
Stimulating Fomentation.
Cedar buds, or boughs, any quantity, to which add a small quantity of red pepper and ginger, boiling water sufficient.
Use.—This will be found very efficacious in chronic lameness and paralysis, for putrid sore throat, and when the glands are enlarged from cold and catarrh.