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Coughs

Condition	Method Of Treatment
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - whiskey, sugar, hot water
cough	ingested - Indian posey (Barbarea vulgaris R. Br.)
cough	performed - pat person on back if he coughs
cough	ingested - kerosen, sugar
cough	ingested - Plum: Prunus ameridana Marsh.
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - cold smartweed tea
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - mixture of sugar, butter, and vinegar
catarrh, cholera, jaundice, phthisic, croup, whooping cough, colds	ingested - bruised lobelia and red pepper pods covered with good whiskey
colds	ingested - Elderberry blossom tea.
cough	ingested - in a cordial, sticky buds of Balm of Gilead, soaked in whiskey
cough	performed - kicking the cat out
cough	ingested - hoarhound (horehound) tea
cough	ingested - juniper berries
cough	applied - powdered quinine, camphor
cough	Hoary- willow
cough	ingested - Wild cherry rum.
cough	ingested - onion, honey and sugar
whooping cough	ingested - bread and butter from woman who marries without name change
cuts
croup, bronchitis, cough	ingested - skunk’s oil, molasses
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - rosemary tea
cough	ingested - horehound syrup
cough	ingested - tea made from wild cherry bark and bloodroot
cough	ingested - shumac
colds, coughs, sore throat	turpentine
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - tea from a plant called “Old Man”
catarrh	syrups, cordials and decoctions of aralias
colds	ingested - infusion of dried rootsticks of bloodroot
cough	ingested - syrup of coltsfoot
cough	ingested - germander, honey
cough	ingested - hoarhound (horehound)
cough	ingested - egg case of praying mantis
cough	ingested - onion syrup
cough	performed - sell cough
cough	ingested - honey, lemon tonic
cough	onions, molasses
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - hot corn whiskey
cough	ingested - Root of mullein, stewed together with wild cherry bark, brown sugar, and a little vinegar
cough	ingested - powder made by beating hard pine resin
cough	ingested - wild cherry, boiled with horehound, and sometimes mixed with whiskey
cough	worn - leather noses
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - soda and molasses
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - whiskey, sugar, and hot water
chest cold	applied - kerosene, tallow, and turpentine on flannel cloth, heat it, and apply to chest
cough	buds of Balm of Gilead steeped in whiskey
cough	ingested - figs boiled in milk or barley water
cough	ingested - hoarhound (horehound) tea
cough	performed - say “Isos Marisaro”
cough	applied - sheep tallow
cough	ingested - syrup of onions and sugar
hygiene	performed - wash
cough, colds, whooping cough, croup, asthma, influenza, bronchitis	ingested - Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
cough, colds, lung ailments	ingested - flaxseed tea
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - worn stocking around neck
colds	ingested - ginger, boneset, and sage tea
cough	ingested - hog hoof tea
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - gargle with hot water and salt
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - honey and tar
colds	ingested - Rock candies
cough	ingested - teas made of boiled horehound leaves, honey and brown sugar
cough	sweet scent (Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.)
cough	applied - skunk’s oil
cough	ingested - sumac berries boiled with sugar
cough	ingested - water off of tar, put in water kept in crocks or cedar buckets
internal ailments, bowels	ingested - ground or spruce hemlock, whiskey.
nervous	ingested - spider web
pulmonary
colds, fevers, rheumatism, coughs	ingested - Lemons
historical items, head to foot, anglo saxon
cough	ingested - kerosene
cough	ingested - honey and lemon juice
cough, sore throat	ingested - honey and lemon juice mixture
cramps
cold, flu	ingested - ponche (egg, milk, spices)
colds
colds, coughs	slippery elm bark
colds, sore throat	ingested - sulfur molasses, butter, sugar
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - poultice of onions on throat
cough	ingested - rock candy and whiskey
colds, coughs, sore throat	soda and water
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - sugar and kerosene
colds	applied - Pine tar under the tongue.
consumption, coughs	snails dissolved in salt and mixed with cream and sugar to make an emulsion which is ingested
cough	ingested - decoction of prickly ash bark
cough	ingested - horehound
cough	ingested - drink made of uita leaves soaked in water
cough	ingested - “Frog-in-the-Throat” patent medicine
cough	ingested - boiled leaves of round-leaved sumac in water; water used as medicine.
cough	Hibiscus (Hibiscus spp.)
cough, colds, bowels, internal trouble	ingested - hemlock, whiskey
malaria, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria	Houchens Family Physician
jaundice, cholera, croup, whooping cough	ingested - “bitters” of bruised lobelia, red pepper pods, and whiskey
pain	performed - elaborate ritual
whooping cough	performed - dig hole; hold child’s head in hole until child coughs
whooping cough, pertussis
whooping cough	performed - digging hole and inserting child’s head until it coughs
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
chest ailments	applied - mustard plasters
cough	ingested - lemon juice and honey
cough	ingested - Slippery Elm bark
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - red flannel around neck
colds	ingested - horehound
cough	ingested - onion and sugar; cinders in whiskey; a mixture of honey, vinegar, and butter; and cherry bark, alum, and honey
arthritis, asthma, cough	ingested - honey
cough, cold	ingested - coltsfoot or crowfoot
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - mixture of turpentine, lard, camphor, and kerosene, on chest or throat
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - sock worn during day around throat at night
alcoholism, kidney disease, cancer, chronic coughs, pimples	ingested - arnica, betony
chest ailments	ingested - Dried rootstocks of bloodroot
cough	performed - applied - breaking open a blister on a balsam tree during a full moon
cough	ingested - syrup of leaves or green fruit of fig tree
cough	ingested - LIPA, rock candy
cough	spikenard, alcohol (spirits) (awsetze)
cough	ingested - powdered slippery elm (unspecified)
cough	ingested - tea made of sumac berries
cough	ingested - Hepatica (Hepatica triloba) leaves
cough	ingested - hemlock
cough	ingested - water off of tar, put in water kept in crocks
croup	ingested - bruised lobelia and red pepper pods covered with good whiskey
cough, catarrh, cochexia, languor	syrups, cordial and decoctions of aralias
patent medicines	ingested - Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
illness, healer traditions
cough	ingested - “ponche”
cough	ingested - rock candy in corn liquor
ear ailments, earaches	inhaled - eggs, milk (ponche)
canker sore, cracked lip, coughs, colds, consumption	Yerba Santa
cough	ingested - syrup made from onion , 1 litre of water and 2 cups sugar.
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - gargle hot water and salt
cough	ingested - powdered snakeroot
cough	ingested - mixture of honey, butter, and vinegar, heated on hearth
cold	ingested - cherry bark
hoarseness	ingested - mixture of honey and vinegar
cough	ingested - old field balsam, horehound, mullein buds, sugar
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - vinegar, salt, honey, and cayenne pepper
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - skunk-oil and sugar
cough, cold	ingested - coltsfoot or crowfoot
cold	ingested - decoction of inner bark of “Mountain Birch”
cough	ingested - birch or maple sap with milk taken n the spring
cough	applied - cow manure poultices
cough	ingested - fir boughs, spikenard, clover, cider
cough, colds	ingested - hoarhound (horehound)
cough	ingested - sugar with few drops of kerosene
cough	ingested - mistletoe soaked in mare’s milk
cough	stones from: village of Alamantz mountain of Poghrkhan village of Sarooshen
cough	ingested - two or three snails, boiled in barley wine, water, or other drink
cough	Blue violet.
cough	ingested - Galen’s remedy dissolved in new wine.
cough, colds, flu, grippe	ingested - hemlock, white pine
cough	ingested - water off of tar, put in water kept in cedar buckets
lungs	ingested - Extract of foxglove.
whooping cough	performed - child coughs into hole dug in earth; cover hole
patent medicines	ingested - Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
cough	ingested - turpentine
hair
cough	ingested - estafiate (plant or herb), lemon and honey, Castilla rose with honey.
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - honey and sugar
cough	ingested - wild cherry bark
cough	ingested - Tibinahua or Oil Plant, or Yerba de la Tos
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - rendered skunk fat on chest and throat
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - onions and honey
cough	ingested - Kenip (Melicocca bijuga L.)
cough	creosote
cough	ingested - garlic, honey
cough	ingested - hoarhound (horehound)
cough	ingested - Pellitory of Spain
cough	ingested - rum, loaf sugar, raisins
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
cough	ingested - sugar and few drops of turpentine. sugar and few drops of kerosene
colds	ingested - lemon, onion, honey
cough, pneumonia, pain in side or back	applied - mustard plaster
cough	ingested - mixture of red pepper, butter, sugar
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - slice of fat meat sprinkled with red pepper, around throat
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - pull certain hairs on back of neck
cough	ingested - glycerine, rock candy
cough	ingested - hoarhound (horehound), dried, steeped and made into candy
cough	ingested - molasses and sugar mixed into a paste
cough	Scabious
cough	performed - put child’s head in a hole in the ground [transference]
whooping cough	performed - dig hole in ground; hold patient’s head in hole until patient coughs; fill hole
whooping cough	performed - place child’s hair between slices of bread and butter; feed to dog
cough, colds, croup, whooping cough, kidney ailments	ingested - dr. poland’s white pine compound
patent medicines	ingested - Down’s Elixir
feet ailments, rheumatism, colds, coughs, stomachaches	ingested - various herbs
cough	ingested - honey, alum
cough	ingested - sugar lumps soaked in brandy
measles	ingested - “ponche” drink made of eggs and milk
cough	ingested - sugar and kerosene
cough	ingested - chokeberry wine, sugar
cough	Horehound syrup; horehound and molasses
cough	ingested - horehound leaves and horehound candy
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - skunk-oil on chest and throat, at bedtime
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - just-worn sock dipped in turpentine, turned wrong side out, pinned around neck
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - fry onions in lard, rub lard on chest; place onions in sack, place sack on patient’s chest
colds	Bruised lobelia, red pepper pods covered in good whisky.
colds	ingested - ‘mAsusidjAL’ sweet palm
colds, cough	ingested - ground or spruce hemlock, whiskey
consumption, coughs, asthma, dropsy, edema	Hedge Vine
cough	ingested - glycerine, rock candy
cough	ingested - hyssop boiled with rue and honey
cough	ingested - Liverwort
cough	ingested - syrup made from boiled mullein leaves, and bark from cherry tree and oak tree, see text
cough	ingested - “hive syrup” (cough syrup made with honey)
cough	tobacco
grippe, influenza	ingested - hemlock bark and white pine bark, needles, twigs tea
whooping cough	performed - place child in hole; cover child with flag cut in making hole; remove child after cough is heard; performed at sundown with parents
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
colds	ingested - hog hoof tea
cough	ingested - Lemon Juice, honey, blackberry brandy
cough	ingested - syrup from boiling lightwood splinters, sugar
cough	ingested - eggs soaked in strong vinegar
cough	ingested - mullen flower tea
cough	ingested - horehound leaves, sugar, syrup.
cough	ingested - horehound candy
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - goose-grease
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - red flannel cloth over chest in winter
colds, coughs, sore throat	vinegar, salt, and paper
colds, coughs, asthma, lungs	ingested - Extract of Fox Lungs, or Lungs of Hart, Buck, or Doe.
cough	ingested - lobelia
cough	tobacco
head	performed - inhale red cedar
cough, colds	ingested - Brown’s Bronchial Troches
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
baldness	applied - goose grease
cough	ingested - preparation of lemon and honey
cough	applied - goose grease
cold, food	ingested - ponche
cough	ingested - horehound syrup
cough	ingested - onion juice
cough	ingested - tea from boneset, or catnip, or cocklebur, or golden rod, or marigold
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - syrup made from elderberries
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - gargle with coal-oil and smoke dry mullen
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - pepper tea
bowels	ingested - boiled ground or spruce hemlock mixed with whiskey
bronchitis, rheumatism, bowel inflammation	syrup of garlic made by digesting two large fresh garlics, a half pint of honey together is a remedy for bronchitis, ordinary coughs and lung fever; children were given doses warmed every hour, while adults took tablespoonfuls.
colds, pthisic, croup, whooping coughs, catarrh	ingested - lobelia, red pepper pods covered in good whisky.
cough	ingested - linseed oil, molasses
cough	worn - wool stocking around neck
cough	hedge mustard juice
cough	tobacco smoke
pulmonary
cough, consumption, cancer, backache, kidney ailments
health
colds	ingested - liquid from diced boiled grapefruit with honey
cough
cramps
cough	ingested - honey, alum
cough	ingested - whiskey, vinegar, butter, brown sugar
cough, dropsy, edema, jaundice, wounds, bites	Yerba de la Golondrina, Swallows weed
colds
cough	ingested - whiskey and Black Draught
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - paste made from strained honey and black walnuts mashed together
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - fried onions in a bag on chest
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - fat bacon on throat
cancer, alcoholism, kidney disease, chronic coughs, pimples	ingested - arnica, betony
cough	burfine root
cough	ingested - blackberry vinegar diluted one part and sweetened
cough	ingested - steeped and strained liquid from the bark of the black cherry tree, with much sugar added
cough	ingested - linseed oil, molasses
cough	ingested - root of a hound’s tongue
cough	ingested - powdered wood betony with honey
cough	tobacco
whooping cough	ingested - lobelia, red pods, whiskey.
cough, colds, conumption, whooping cough, croup, asthma	ingested - Down’s Vegetable Balsamic Elixir
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment	Change of air
feet disorders, anemia, wounds, rheumatism, coughs, stomachaches	ingested - Garlic, tobacco, onion, soda, vinegar, snake weed, catnip, bark, sassafras, sumac, white pine, bear weed, blood weed
cough	ingested - hot tea with lemon and honey
cough	ingested - sugar, onions
illness, botanical treatments
wounds, coughs	Madregosa, or Yerba del Pajarito, or Barba del Frances
cough	ingested - whiskey and peppermint candy
cough	ingested - teas of mullein and tame “cumfrey" (probably confort)
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - stocking around neck
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - hot pepper or ginger
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - cloth wrung out of ice-cold water, on chest
cough	ingested - boneset tea
cough	ingested - boiled wild cherry gum syrup
cough	ingested - elderberries, molasses, Good Brandy
cough	ingested - honey, onions, brown sugar, peppermint
whooping cough	performed - place hair from patient’s head between slices of bread and butter; feed bread to dog
patent medicines	Jackson’s Magic Balsam
colds, cough, rheumatism, neuralgia, headaches	Jewett’s Electric Pain Remover
cough	ingested - hore-hound candy
cough	ingested - corn silk tea
throat, sore	sugar, brandy
cough	ingested - applied - Schmidt Oil
cough	ingested - horehound syrup
cough	ingested - whiskey and poplar bark
cough	ingested - tea of mullein, sugar or honey, vinegar, brandy
cough	ingested - whiskey soaked apple
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - fried onions on chest
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - hot milk and pepper
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - warm feet in oven
cough	ingested - elder bush flowers.
cough, colds, asthmas, shortness of breath	ingested - extract of fox lungs; lungs of hart, buck or doe
cough, intermittent fevers	ingested - Indian turnip in decoctions
cough	ingested - Lungwort
cough	ingested - mullein tea
cough	Wall rue
kidneys	ingested - Arnica, betony
plague	performed - elaborate ritual by personified Plague
cough, colds, whooping cough, croup, asthma	ingested - Down’s Vegetable Balsamic Elixer
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
menstruation
earaches, cough, whooping cough	applied - tar
colds	applied - goose grease
throat, sore	ingested - ginger, sugar
cough	ingested - onion juice
fever, coughs, colds, sore mouth, sore throat	currants
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - onions
cough	ingested - whiskey and yellowroot
cough	ingested - mixture of throat drops of kerosene and sugar
croup	ingested - ground ivy tea
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - fried onions on soles of feet
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - around throat, a long woolen home-knit sock, wrong side out with sole of sock against sorest spot
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - slice of salt pork on neck
cough	ingested - broomweed tea (broomweed boiled slowly with honey, vinegar, pepper)
breath, shortness of, asthma	ingested - extract of lungs of fox, hart, buck, or doe
colds	ingested - Paste of molasses and sugar.
cough	ingested - decoction of inner bark of “Mountain Birch”
cough	ingested - wild cherry
cough, catarrh, cochexia, languor	ingested - syrups, cordials and decoctions of aralias
cough	performed - ritual passage through stone pass at Saripegi
cough	ingested - powdered snake root
cough	ingested - Mixture of vinegar, butter, honey, grains of cayenne.
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment	Tabasheer
cough	ingested - dandelion wine
cough
cough	Turpentine
throat, sore	turpentine, sugar
cough	performed - pass child under belly of horse
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - liquor
colds, coughs	ingested - hot sassafras tea
cough	ingested - pine needles steeped in sorghum
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - red flannel around neck
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - gargle with soda in water
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - mixture of vinegar, butter, pepper, and sugar
cough	ingested - extract of fox (or deer) lungs
cough	ingested - elderberry blossom tea
cough	ingested - decoction of horehound
cough	ingested - ground ivy
cough	ingested - mullein syrup
kidney ailments, alcoholism, cancer, chronic cough, pimples	ingested - arnica, betony
patent medicines	ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
cough	ingested - horehound tea
cough	ingested - broomweed tea (broomweed boiled slowly with honey, vinegar, pepper)
colds, coughs, sore throat, typhoid	ingested - feed cold, starve fever (thyphoid)
cough	ingested - juice of baked onion and sugar
colds, coughs	ingested - essence made from ten persimmon calyxes; liquid from boiled obako (Plantaginaceae) plants
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - bag of asafetida around neck
colds, coughs, sore throat	performed - pull up hairs on top of head
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - pine tar on chest and back worn - woolen jacket
asthma, coughs, colds, shortness of breath	ingested - extract of fox lungs, hart, buck, doe.
cholera, jaundice, tuberculosis, whooping cough	ingested - bruised lobelia and red pepper pods covered with good whiskey
cold	ground ivy (“Hedge maids”)
colds	ingested - boneset tea
cough	ingested - cucumber seed, when mixed with cumin and taken in wine
cough	ingested - cherry bark
cough	ingested - horehound candy
cough	ingested - tea of ground ivy
cough	applied - goose-grease, turpentine
cough	ingested - tea and syrup
illness, healing methods	performed - bleeding
cold, food
throat, sore, cough, colds	elderberries
catarrh, coughs, dysentery, warts	ingested - mullein
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - red flannel soaked in turpentine, kerosene, camphor, hog lard
colds	ingested - syrup made from boiled cherry bark, sugar, glycerine, camphor
cough	ingested - juice from chewing Jerusalem roots
colds, coughs	ingested - onions
cough	ingested - sugar with kerosene
colds	steep mullein leaves
cough	ingested - onion
colds, coughs, sore throat	applied - brown paper on chest
colds, coughs, sore throat	worn - around neck, Asafedita soaked in camphor and wrapped up in little bag
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - salt
bronchitis, coughs	pine or birch creosote
colds	ingested - hemlock tea
cough	ingested - decoction of inner bark of “mountain birch”
cough	Elecampane.
cholera, jaundice, croup, whooping cough	ingested - bruised lobelia and red pepper pods covered with good whiskey
cough	ingested - syrups, cordials, decoctions of aralias
cough	ingested - olive oil and sugar
influenza	Burfine root
side aches
paralysis, stroke, pulmonary tuberculosis
cough	ingested - broomweed tea made by boiling broomweed roots low with honey, vinegar and pepper to taste
cough	ingested - syrup of horehound roots
cramps
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - water and soda
cough	ingested - mixed molasses, butter, sugar, vinegar, kerosene, drunk warm
colds, coughs	ingested - onions and garlic
colds, coughs	ingested - cough syrup of trillium (birthroot such as wood lily or ground lily)
cough	ingested - shoemake tea sweetened with sugar
colds	applied - kerosene, turpentine, tallow on flannel cloth, heated and put on chest
colds, coughs, sore throat	ingested - onion syrup
colds	ingested - hemlock bark, white pine bark, needles and twigs tea
consumption	root bark of sassafras tea ingested
cough	ingested - dried rootstocks of bloodroot in an infusion
cough	ingested - chewing the leaves and roots of a certain “cough-plant”
cough	Elecampane
cough	ingested - St. John’s wort
cough	ingested - laurel leaves
cough	boiled Iceland moss, water
cough	ingested - hare’s dung, wine
cough	ingested - Corn whiskey with pine tar
cough	tabaxir
digestion, gout, fever, toothache, infection, lice	ingested - inhaled - tobacco (smoked or infused)
fever, intermittent	ingested - Indian turnip.
cold, cough	ingested - Water and sugar.

Coughs

Condition

Method Of Treatment

ingested - whiskey, sugar, hot water

ingested - Indian posey (Barbarea vulgaris R. Br.)

performed - pat person on back if he coughs

ingested - kerosen, sugar

ingested - Plum: Prunus ameridana Marsh.

ingested - cold smartweed tea

ingested - mixture of sugar, butter, and vinegar

ingested - bruised lobelia and red pepper pods covered with good whiskey

ingested - Elderberry blossom tea.

ingested - in a cordial, sticky buds of Balm of Gilead, soaked in whiskey

performed - kicking the cat out

ingested - hoarhound (horehound) tea

ingested - juniper berries

applied - powdered quinine, camphor

Hoary- willow

ingested - Wild cherry rum.

ingested - onion, honey and sugar

ingested - bread and butter from woman who marries without name change

ingested - skunk’s oil, molasses

ingested - rosemary tea

ingested - horehound syrup

ingested - tea made from wild cherry bark and bloodroot

ingested - shumac

turpentine

ingested - tea from a plant called “Old Man”

syrups, cordials and decoctions of aralias

ingested - infusion of dried rootsticks of bloodroot

ingested - syrup of coltsfoot

ingested - germander, honey

ingested - hoarhound (horehound)

ingested - egg case of praying mantis

ingested - onion syrup

performed - sell cough

ingested - honey, lemon tonic

onions, molasses

ingested - hot corn whiskey

ingested - Root of mullein, stewed together with wild cherry bark, brown sugar, and a little vinegar

ingested - powder made by beating hard pine resin

ingested - wild cherry, boiled with horehound, and sometimes mixed with whiskey

worn - leather noses

ingested - soda and molasses

ingested - whiskey, sugar, and hot water

applied - kerosene, tallow, and turpentine on flannel cloth, heat it, and apply to chest

buds of Balm of Gilead steeped in whiskey

ingested - figs boiled in milk or barley water

ingested - hoarhound (horehound) tea

performed - say “Isos Marisaro”

applied - sheep tallow

ingested - syrup of onions and sugar

performed - wash

ingested - Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry

ingested - flaxseed tea

worn - worn stocking around neck

ingested - ginger, boneset, and sage tea

ingested - hog hoof tea

performed - gargle with hot water and salt

ingested - honey and tar

ingested - Rock candies

ingested - teas made of boiled horehound leaves, honey and brown sugar

sweet scent (Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.)

applied - skunk’s oil

ingested - sumac berries boiled with sugar

ingested - water off of tar, put in water kept in crocks or cedar buckets

ingested - ground or spruce hemlock, whiskey.

ingested - spider web

ingested - Lemons

ingested - kerosene

ingested - honey and lemon juice

ingested - honey and lemon juice mixture