STORY TELLERS
Page 5
Ailments & Remedies
by: Kim Jones Dean
(To send Kim an e-mail, click on her name.)
July 5, 2005
| Asthma | Sourwood Sapling - Cut a sapling longer than your child is tall; split/fork the end lengthwise and place a lock of hair in the fork. Put sapling over doorframe and when the child is taller than the stick is long, the Asthma will be gone. Some people used Locust, Pine or Popular saplings.
| Cold | Caster Oil - this would work the cold out/through your system
| Congestion | Camphorated Oil - rub on chest and place a warmed blanket (wool or outing) on chest. | Quinine - mix with coffee on a small teaspoon and drank; works the croup, cold or congestion out/through your system. Constipation of farm animals | Linseed Oil
| Crabs/Lice | Jenson's Blue Violet
| Croup | Onion juice - place a large onion in the ashes of a warm morning stove, squeeze and drink juice
| Cuts | Alum
| Diaper Rash | Chimney dust or corn starch
| Diarrhea/Flux | Sassafras - Peel bark of tree up; scrape inside of bark and boil; drink the juice and diarrhea will stop (see Vomiting below).
| Ear Ache - Female | Place fresh urine from a male in the ear
| Ear Ache - Male | Place fresh urine from a female in the ear
| Fever Blister | Place chicken dung or ear wax on blister
| Head Lice | Wash hair in baking soda
| Open Sores | Golden Seal and Lard (also used on fever blisters)
| Puny Child | Cod Liver Oil
| Regulate Blood Pressure | Blood Root - Boil and drink juice
| Repel Diseases | Asafetida - placed in small bag and worn around neck (only in winter time)
| Remove Freckles | Wash in morning dew before the sun comes up for seven straight days
| Rickets | Wash in greasy dirty dish water for seven days
| Stone Bruises | Sleep with cow poultice on foot
| Stop Bleeding | Tinctures of Iron
| Swelling | Mullein - Heat/warm the leaves and wrap around legs to reduce swelling
| Teething | To prevent child from slobbering - punch/drill hole in a dime, place a string or ribbon through hole and tie around the child's neck
| Thrash (Trench Mouth) | Have a non-family member run water from the heel to toe of their shoe seven times. Strain water and drink.
| Vomiting | Sassafras - Peel bark of tree down; scrape inside of bark and boil; drink the juice and vomiting will stop (see Diarrhea/Flux above).
| Vomiting of Medicine | If the child isn't able to keep their medicine down, after the medicine was given to the child, take the spoon and center it (left and right; back and forth) in the door frame and the child will keep medicine down.
| Wart Removal | Take three beans or stones. Take the first bean, rub a circle around wart and throw over your left shoulder. Take the second bean, rub a circle around wart and throw over right shoulder. Take the third bean, rub a circle around wart, spit on the bean and throw over your head.
| |
| Black Raspberry | General tonic and astringent properties, Dysentery
| Cardinal Flower | Typhoid Fever
| Common Nightshade | POISONOUS ~ Intense digestive disorders and nervous symptoms
| Fleabane | Respiratory distress, internal injuries and bruises. Today it is used in cough syrups.
| Flowering Dogwood | Astringent to stop bleeding, Substitute quinine to treat malaria
| Foxglove | Cardiac problems
| Indian Hemp | Intermittent and recurring fevers, Amenorrhoea (which is absence or cessation of menstruation), and other female complaints
| Jack-in-the-Pulpit | Reduce swelling from rattlesnake bite
| Jimsonweed | Mosquito bites
| Mayapple | Purge summer diarrhea, good for mental conditions, rheumatism and liver ailments
| Pokeweed | Upper respiratory infections, sore throat, rheumatism and liver ailments
| Redbud | Dysentery
| Sassafras | Increases sweating used to lower temperatures
| Skunk Cabbage | Expectorant and respiratory sedative; used in acute asthmatic attacks
| Staghorn Sumac | POISONOUS ~ Styptic and astringent
| Trout Lily | Relieves hiccups, vomiting, hematuria (which is blood in the urine) and bleeding from the lower bowels
| Verbena | Vomiting, digestive disorders
| Violets | Skin diseases
| |
