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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 page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
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Make a strong tea of the root of the plant called Jacob's ladder, and drink five or six times a day, in doses of half a pint at a time. It is an infallible cure.
Bleeding at the Stomach. Pound very fine sixteen ounces of well dried yellow dock root, and boil it fifteen minutes in sweet milk; strain it, sweeten it well, and drink a gill three times a day. Take, in addition, a THE INDIAN DOCTOR. pill of white pine turpentine every day, which will have the effect of healing the blood vessels from which the blood escapes.