Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
fractures |
performed - physical methods by healer |
fractured bone |
ingested or applied - water fern decoction or ointment |
fractured bone |
applied - fresh cow manure poultice |
fractured bone, slivers, thorns |
applied - roots of eringo in hog’s grease or salted lard |
fractured bone |
Fluxweed |
fractures |
performed - Wrap leg in unwashed cloth with egg yolks therein, then place four pieces of wood around bone and wrap with wire. |
sickness |
performed - change sick person’s water three times a day, etc. |
fractured bone |
performed - break sheep’s leg in too places |
fractures |
applied - Small geranium mixed with fat |
fractures |
applied - Honey, comfrey, butter, and flax oil |
foreign objects in body |
applied - Earthworm ashes and honey. |
fractured bone |
applied - comfrey roots |
skulls, broken bones |
Mumia |
bones |
|
fractured bone |
applied - beetles, worms, bugs |
splinters, broken bones |
applied - Darnel meal poultice |
fractures |
|
fractures |
Snapweed |
fractures |
Snapweed |
illness, supernatural cause, treatment |
|
colds |
ingested - Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliaturn) tea (ague weed, Indian sage, crosswart) |
bruises, aches, strains, broken bones |
Raccoon grease. |
fractures |
applied - bandage of extract of small geranium |
splinters, broken bones |
applied - wood betony (juice) |
colds |
ingested - Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliaturn) tea (ague weed, Indian sage, crosswart) |
fractures |
Good King Henry goosefoot |
splinters, broken bones |
applied - stinking gladwin with verdigris, honey, great centaury root |
beauty, complexion, skin care, cosmetics, broken bones, wounds |
applied - juice of celandine poppy |
dislocations |
applied - sheep bile, woman’s milk |
fractured bone, splinters |
Root of sow fennel |
fractures |
ingested - roots of Solomon’s seal in ale |
fractured bone, dislocations |
ingested - tobacco pellets |
fractures |
|
fractured bone |
applied - decoction of elm |
fractured bone |
applied - splints |
broken heart, emotions, intellect, coronary thrombosis, thalamus |
|
bones, broken |
applied - saliva |
fractures |
performed - kill lizards; slit lizards from head to tail; tie lizards around broken bone like splint |
fractures |
applied - small geranium with lard |
sores |
powder from bones of a person long dead |
fractures |
Hibuiscum |
fractures |
applied - She-goat excrement and vinegar, then splint. Mugwort with rose oil. |
fractured bone |
applied - Bruised root of bryony |
fractures |
applied - Wrap with grape leaves. |
aches, corns, broken bones, rheumatic joints |
|
fractured bone |
applied - leaves of brankursine |
fractured bone |
ingested - vinegar |
fractures |
|
fractures |
inhaled - tobacco |
fractured bone |
Bark and leaves of holly |
fractured bone, dislocations |
ingested - decoction of butcher’s broom root; applied - poultice of butcher’s broom berries and leaves |
bullet wounds |
performed - elaborated ceremony |
fractures |
Kerosene |
fractures |
applied - mixture of black hens’ feces |
fractures |
boneset |
fractures |
applied - black hens’ feces |
fractures |
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conjury, invisibility |
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