Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada

by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Flowers (when).—July and August.

Grows (where).—In United States and Canada. In fields and meadows, by roadsides, etc.

Prepared (how).—Powder, oil and infusion. To make infusion, use one ounce to pint of boiling water.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—The infusion, one to two ounces, should be used three or four times daily; powder, ten to twenty grains, the same. The oil is more effective in bleeding and dysentery and bleeding piles. Oil is very good, in doses of one to five drops every three hours for acute diseases, or three times a day for chronic cases. Put on sugar.

GARLIC. Allium Sativum.

Internally, used for.—Nervous children, coughs, colds, hoarseness, worms, croup, nervous vomiting.

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Externally, used for.—Poultice.

Part used.—The bulb.

Gather.—When ripe.