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

by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

[438 MOTHERS' REMEDIES]

Prepared (how).—As an infusion cold or hot; half ounce of leaves to a pint of boiling water.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—Dose, an ounce or two. To produce perspiration give warm. To check perspiration give cold, in smaller doses and oftener. For sore mouth, sore throat, tonsilitis and quinsy, use hot infusion strong as a gargle.

SCOURING RUSH. Horse Tail. Shave Grass. Equisetum Hyemale.

Internally, used for.—Dropsy, suppression of the urine, blood in the urine, gravel, gonorrhea and gleet.

Part used.—The stalk.

Gather.—Matures in June and July,

Grows (where).—In wet grounds in river banks, hillsides, and borders of woods in United States.

Prepared (how).—Infusion, one ounce to the pint of water.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—For above diseases drink in half ounce doses every two hours.