Important: Safety Warning
This page gives first-aid or emergency advice that predates modern medicine and can make an emergency worse. Do not follow it. In any medical emergency, call emergency services and follow current first-aid guidance.
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.
Rattlesnake's Bite
- Take green hoarhound tops and pound them fine; press out the juice, and let the patient drink a table-spoonful three times a day, before breakfast, dinner, and just on going to bed, and apply the pounded herb to the bite as a poultice twice a day. This remedy seldom fails to cure the most deadly bites, and is the standing remedy among the Indians.