Important: Safety Warning
This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Felon or Run-round
- Stew four ounces each of blue flag root snd wild turnip root in a pint of hog's lard, strain and add to it a gill of tar, and simmer them together. Apply this preparation to the felon for about a week, and it will break. Add rosin and beeswax to the ointment for a dressing salve, after it is broken. This is a certain cure, without losing a joint.
PRACTICAL INDIAN RECIPES.
Salve for a Burn. - Take of green elder bark, wild lavender, chamomile, and parsley, equal parts, stewing them in fresh butter fifteen minutes. Strain, and add beeswax, rosin, and white diachylon, equal parts. If the burn has troubled you some time and discharged freely, take mutton suet fresh from the sheep, pound it with chalk to the consistency of salve. This will cure the most inveterate old sores of the kind.