Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
warts |
applied - Irish potato that has eyes |
eye ailments |
applied - raw beefsteak |
eye ailments |
applied - water, sugar, alum, borax |
catarrh, consumption, eyes, fistulas, wounds |
romero (rosemary), California Rosemary |
eye ailments |
Pure rainwater (collected on Easter or during last days of April and first four of May |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - mother’s breast milk |
eye ailments |
applied - rotten apple in a bag |
eye ailments |
applied - warm salt water |
health, eye strain |
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stye |
applied - wedding ring |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - sap of grapevines pruned in March |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
performed - see a person you have not seen for a long time |
hiccups, hiccoughs |
performed - hold nerves, hold breath, tell them to hiccough |
eyes, sore, weak |
performed - count finger nails. |
eyes, sore, weak |
applied - snow |
erysipelas |
applied - cat skin. |
blindness |
performed - wash eyes in a stream while the sun is rising |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - breast milk. |
headaches |
performed - put oil on top of water |
blindness |
applied - dew |
blindness |
applied - fish bile stroked on the eyes of blind |
blindness |
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blindness |
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blindness |
performed - spit in eyes |
blindness |
applied - well water into which relic (piece of shroud) of St. Cuthbert dipped. |
bronchitis |
performed - cleaning the mouth three times a day with a powder of white eyestone |
cataracts |
applied - balsam, triturated and mixed |
cataracts |
applied - bird of prey bile and eye water |
convulsions |
performed - pour baby’s baptism water over peony bush, bathe eyes with it. |
eye ailments, bleary eyes |
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eye ailments |
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eye ailments |
applied - fly hunting spider cobweb (for boy who has not reached age of puberty) |
eye ailments |
Cow parsnip |
eyes |
Datura (plant) |
blindness, eyes, sight |
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eye ailments, eyes |
performed - licking diseased eyes after licking eyes of a frog |
eye ailments, sores |
applied - white grape berries |
eye ailments |
applied - extract of centaurea flower |
eye ailments |
applied - ashes of a man’s dung |
eye ailments |
applied - field mouse |
eyes |
performed - pierce ears |
eyes |
applied - hail water |
eyes |
applied - honey containing dead bees. |
eye ailments, weak, red |
“water” from “weeping” grapevine |
eyes |
applied - myrtle berries, honey, rue, ashes |
eye ailments |
applied - fennel seed and hot water. |
eyes |
applied - wild rose root |
eye ailments, cause, rubber |
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eyes |
applied - aloes |
eye ailments |
applied - pork fat |
eyes, sight |
ingested-ravens & partridge gall, fennel juice and honey |
eyes |
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eyes |
applied - sepia, woman’s milk |
eyes |
snake fat |
eye ailments |
performed - invoke St. Clara |
eye ailments |
applied - saliva |
eye ailments |
applied - pith of Sassafras |
eyes |
applied - cloth spread with egg whites and pulverized alum |
eyes |
applied - powdered liquorice |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - alum |
eye ailments, rheum |
baytree berries |
eye ailments, dimness |
applied - ashes of a great swallow, honey |
eyes |
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eyes |
performed - hard work |
blindness, eyesight |
performed - pour water on victims |
eyes |
applied - wash eyes in water of holy well; performed - sleep on stone of the saint. |
eye ailments, eyesight, impaired vision |
Turkey Berry (Solanum torvum Sw.) |
eyes |
worn - bandages of birch and female urine |
eyes |
performed - fumigation with potato steam; applied - creek water |
eye ailments |
applied-ram’s lungs |
eye ailments, object in eye |
performed-swish tail of black cat across eye |
eye ailments, sore |
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eye ailments |
applied - strawberry water |
eye ailments, dim |
roes water boiled beans and vine sap |
eye ailments, object in eye |
performed - cross eyes and wipe out particle with a wisp of cotton. |
eyes |
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eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - spittle |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
water from first autumn snow |
eye ailments |
juice of Coapalxihuitl |
eye ailments |
performed - lick eyes of frog, lick eyes of the patient. |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - rain water, black walnut tree |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - calf’s bile, honey |
eye ailments, weak |
applied - Lisbon wine, lapis clalaminaris |
eyes |
applied - ring dove, turtle dove, or partridge blood |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - lemon juice |
eye ailments |
applied - poultice of Madeira vine leaves |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - right eye of a serpent |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
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eyes |
applied - celandine, vinegar |
eyes |
Powder of the bark of the Mexican cherry tree. |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - rain water and sugar |
fever |
ingested - dandelion, agrimony, ver-juice, rue, crab’s eyes and claws, yarrow |
venereal disease, gonorrhea |
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night blindness |
applied - crossed water |
ophthalmia |
applied - Slices of goat’s flesh, veal, or mutton. |
skin ailments |
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smallpox |
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smallpox |
performed - to look through a strainer upon the son |
stye |
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warts |
performed - Pick the warts until they bleed, apply wood, wipe them free of blood. Close the eyes and throw the wood away. |
warts |
performed - counting, gaze of wart charmer |
eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes, sight, vision |
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illness, healing methods, shrine |
Saint’s intervention |
birthmarks, prenatal influences, cat |
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gender, cause, prediction |
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human body |
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eye ailments |
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eye ailments, eyes |
goat |
eyes, color |
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kissing |
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intelligence |
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laziness, slothfulness |
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care of the corpse, objects in coffin |
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eyes |
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eye ailments |
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eye ailments |
applied - saliva |
pinkeye |
applied - salt water. |
stye |
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eyelashes |
performed - place eyelash on top of hand; close eyes; make wish; blow away eyelash; reopen eyes |
eyes, soul |
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eyes |
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eyes |
ingested - Carrots |
eyes |
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eyelashes |
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cross-eyed |
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eyelashes |
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bodily activities, functions |
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eye ailments |
applied - wet tea bags |
eye ailments, eyesight |
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eye ailments, eyesight |
ingested - carrots |
eye ailments |
Scabiaceae, marigold, chamelion, starwort - good for the eyes. |
eye ailments, black eyes |
applied - beef steak |
nosebleed |
applied - pressure |
eyesight |
ingested - carrots |
eyes |
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children, sight |
ingested - carrots |
eyes |
performed - open in cold water |
occult powers, sixth sense |
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aches, pains |
applied - mud |
eye ailments |
applied - loop made of long horse hair |
birthmarks, prenatal influences |
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eyes |
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character, disposition, jealous, envious |
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birth, baby |
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death, funeral |
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cross-eyed |
ingested - carrots |
birthmarks |
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attributes, eyes |
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eye ailments |
applied - warm apple seeds. |
hives |
ingested - catnip tea |
eyes |
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conjury, insomnia, death |
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conjury |
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conjury, blindness |
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conjury, blindness |
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eyes |
applied - warm tea |
illness, healer traditions |
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cancer |
spirit healer |
eye ailments |
worn - gold rings in pierced ears |
eye ailments |
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eye ailments |
applied - whiskey |
mental illness |
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eye ailments |
performed - pierce ear lobes of child |
eye ailments |
applied - first snow |
venereal disease |
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eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - chamber lye |
eye ailments |
applied - calomel and cream |
eye ailments |
performed - wash eyes with warm soda water |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - sap of grapevines |
eyes, sore, weak |
performed - blacken finger-nails with blackberries. |
eyes, sore, weak |
applied - last snow of season. |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - urine |
eyesight |
March snow |
abscesses |
performed - bless with peseta coin, recite charm |
blindness |
celandine, swallow stone |
blindness |
applied - bile (gall) |
blindness |
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blindness |
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boils |
performed - blessing with coin and verbal charm |
blindness |
performed - spit on closed eyes; applied - saliva |
blindness |
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eye ailments, squint |
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burns |
applied - raw potato parings, mineral oil |
cataracts |
applied - chameleon’s bile |
cold, sore eyes |
Tcigawabi (“bass root”) |
conjunctivitis |
applied - crushed snails applied to the eyes, mixed with yeast |
conjunctivitis |
applied - urine of new-born |
cross-eyed |
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erysipelas, eye sores |
applied - poultice of sempervivum sediforme with smede |
eye ailments |
performed - blowing on eyes |
eyes |
applied - performed - wash your eyes in bluet water. Then dry the eyes with rue or with the first linen of a newborn infant. |
blindness, eyes, sight |
Performed -- Cut Nails At Full Moon |
eye ailments, eyes |
performed - licking diseased eyes after licking eyes of a frog |
eye ailments |
ingested - applied - eyebright tea. |
eye ailments |
applied - fat of inland water fish |
eyes |
worn - pierced ears |
eyes |
performed - store honey in a copper box. |
eyes |
applied - Myrtle berries placed on burning coal eyes steamed above. |
eye ailments |
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eyes |
applied - hard-boiled egg without yolk |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - leaves of houseleek, Sempervivum |
eyes |
worn - brass earrings |
eyes |
applied - aniseed |
eye ailments |
applied - mugwort, water |
eye ailments, inflammation |
applied - water in which an ox has “dribbled” |
eye ailments |
applied - charred owl eyes, shoe tallow |
eye ailments |
the first of Carthusian pink |
eye ailments, dimness |
partridge bile |
eyes |
applied - cold river sand in linen |
eyes |
applied - snake fat or flour mixed with milk |
eye ailments |
sassafras |
eyes |
performed - pass freshly laid egg across eyes |
eyes |
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eyes |
petals of white lily |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - alum |
eyes |
applied - bear or hyena bile |
eye ailments, dim |
applied - boiled swallowwort flowers |
eyes |
applied - urine |
eyes |
performed - wash from inner corners to outer corners. |
eyes |
ingested - water |
eyes |
applied - well water 3X |
eye ailments, inflammation |
wood of Gum Copal tree |
eyes |
human urine |
baby, eyes |
performed - bathe eyes in mother’s milk |
eye fatigue |
applied - potatoes, apples, cucumbers |
eye ailments, object in eye |
performed - rub one eye to get the object out of the other |
eye ailments |
applied - strawberry plant, pepper, sweetened wine |
eye ailments, dim |
applied - rue and honey |
eye ailments, object in eye |
sea stone found in a mouse’s nest |
eye ailments, object in eye |
magnetized iron to remove steel or iron splinters. |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - ingested - hare’s liver sodden in wine |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
Spittle |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
water from last snow |
eye ailments |
charm stone |
eye ailments |
applied - eyes of a frog |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - cold, water |
eyes |
applied - blood from swallow’s wing |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - leek juice and cream |
eye ailments |
applied - poultice of Madeira vine leaves |
eyes |
applied - Crab’s eyes |
eyes |
applied - juice of celandine and honey |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - tea of dried rose petals |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
rain that fell on Holy Thursday that was preserved and bottled |
eyes, circumambulation |
performed - 9 times on knees westward around Mary’s Well then drink one cup of water |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
performed - carry eye stone |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - saliva |
night blindness |
applied - steam of boiling “wolf-vetch” |
eyes |
applied - salve of ashes of broom, hot wine, honey |
trachoma |
applied - ground almonds mixed with mother’s milk |
memory, loss |
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hair |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyelids |
performed - use golden needle to blacken eyelids |
itching eyes |
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laughing, eyes, itching, crying, left, right |
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laughing, itching, eyes |
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laughing, eyes, left |
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telling |
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illness, healing methods |
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eyes, sight, vision |
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attributes, youth |
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visibility |
ingested - three peas each from pea plants grown under pine, spruce, and juniper, in turn grown from a plant planted in a churchyard skull |
personality projection |
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afterbirth |
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abnormal births |
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illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
performed - medicine man ceremony |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
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nursing |
performed - give first milk to a puppy which has yet to open its eyes |
baptism |
applied - benzoin, henna, antimony, walnut |
human body |
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human body |
applied - child’s first feces |
cross-eyed |
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eye ailments, eyes |
goat |
eye ailments |
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eyes, color |
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kissing |
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character, disposition, quick tempered |
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character, disposition, undependable, unpredictable |
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evil eye |
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evil eye |
applied - water in which coal has soaked |
blindness |
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eye ailments |
applied - salt water |
eyes |
performed - Washing face with morning dew. |
stye |
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eyes |
performed - cross fingers at once |
eyes |
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eyes |
ingested - Carrots |
menstruation |
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kisses, kissing |
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eyes |
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eyelashes |
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genitals |
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bodily activities, functions |
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baby |
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evil eye |
applied - raw egg |
blindness |
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eye ailments, eyesight |
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eye ailments, eyesight |
applied - grape leaves |
eye ailments |
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headaches |
performed - lie down quietly applied - cover forehead and eyes with wet rag |
eye ailments, black eyes |
applied - beef steak |
ringworm |
applied - saliva |
warts |
performed - tie string around wart; close eyes; make wish; throw string in street |
eye ailments |
performed - pierce ears |
eyesight |
ingested - carrots |
eyes |
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children, sight |
ingested - carrots |
eyes |
performed - carry eagle feather |
beauty |
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eyesight |
ingested - yellow fruits and vegetables |
character, disposition, untrustworthy |
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eye ailments |
performed - wash eyes at stream or fountain and pray after hearing first swallow in spring |
eyes |
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eyebrows, eyelashes |
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birth marks |
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attributes, eyes |
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occult powers, clairvoyance |
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body signs, physiognomy |
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eye ailments |
performed - wash eyes with wine |
eyes |
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eyes |
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conjury, objects in body, animal |
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eyes |
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alcoholism |
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eyesight, weak |
performed - smoke pipe |
stye |
applied - ring |
birth defects, prenatal influences |
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eye ailments |
applied - ground egg shells |
measles |
ingested - "mouth" parts of small barnacles are powdered, mixed with water applied - ochre mixed with catfish oil; skate liver |
eye ailments |
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eye ailments |
applied - earrings |
throat, sore |
applied - rub first frost in eyes |
eye ailments |
performed - squirt breast milk into eyes |
eye ailments |
Last snow of season |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - liquid from boiling sassafras pith |
eye ailments |
applied - gall of a yellow catfish |
eye ailments |
applied - sassafras root beaten with water |
eyes, sore, weak |
applied - cow manure, slippery elm, bread, milk |
eyes, sore, weak |
applied - first rain-water in May. |
cataracts |
applied - unsalted warm butter |
hiccups, hiccoughs |
performed - close eyes; place right thumb in mouth; blow as hard as possible; think about ocean |
warts |
applied - potato (without eyes) performed - bury potato secretly |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
performed - tatooing. |
eyesight |
applied - spring water |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - mother’s milk |
eye ailments |
performed - close eye, lick inside of cheek on opposite side seven times |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - melted snow that has fallen in May |
blindness |
applied - special salve |
blindness |
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blindness, death |
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cataracts |
applied - sturgeon bile to the eyes |
conjunctivitis |
applied - “Fasting spittle” used in bathing the eyes of children |
eye ailments |
applied - bath water |
eye ailments |
worn - red band on forehead |
eye ailments |
performed,blowing on eyes |
eye ailments |
applied - culver’s or swallow’s blood, woman’s milk |
eye ailments |
water extract of chicory flower, centaurea, plantain |
eyes |
applied - doves blood into eyes |
eye ailments, impaired vision |
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eye ailments, eyes |
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eye ailments, eyes |
applied - slice of garlic |
eye ailments |
applied - fish or sheep’s gall, salt or butter |
eyes |
worn - pierced ears |
eyes |
applied - Water in which ten horses have drunk |
eyes |
applied - gall of a hare |
eye ailments, sloughing |
woman’s hair burnt in an earthen vessel, litbarge |
eyes |
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eyes |
worn - pierced gold earrings |
eyes |
applied - algae from stagnant water |
eye ailments |
applied - extract of pennyroyal mint, wormwood |
eyes |
applied - saffron |
eyes |
applied - snake fat and bile, thorn of wild rose |
eye ailments |
wash eyes with sassafras tea |
eyes |
applied - cloth spread with egg white, sugar, camphor |
eyes |
worn - pieces of linen s in warm milk. |
eyes |
performed - leave patient in barn with lambs |
eyes |
applied - lily water |
eyes |
worn - amber |
eyes |
applied - bean |
eye ailments |
applied - swallow-wort juice |
eyes |
applied - urine |
eyes |
ingested - woodpecker gall, honey, rue |
eye ailments, red, watering |
Tamarisk |
eyes |
applied urine of a chaste boy |
eye ailments |
performed - wash eyes with mother’s milk |
eyes |
applied - rabbit fat |
eye ailments, rheum |
strawberry plant |
eye ailments, dim |
applied gall of goats and wine |
eye ailments, object in eye |
magnets |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
ingested - applied - sodden hare’s liver in wine |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - salt water or soda and molasses |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
March snow |
eye ailments, sore |
gall of crow |
eye ailments |
applied - fever fuge, honey; ingested - fever fuge, wine or ale, honey |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
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eyes |
worn - rings in ears |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - lung of a hare |
eye ailments |
applied - Mesquite |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
distilled water of succory |
eyes |
applied - Celandine, fennels, southernwood juice, tear of honey, woman’s milk |
eyes |
performed - Rub with tail of black cat. |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - dwarf wild rose |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
fasting spittle |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - rain water gathered on Ascension Day |
eyes |
worn - Eyes of crow about the neck. |
eye ailments |
Clove |
measles |
ingested - sheep dung, or sassafras tea. |
night blindness |
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pinkeye |
worn - colored glasses |
smallpox |
sapphire |
mental illness, moonstruck |
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herb doctors |
ingested - tea made of “Dittany”, boneset, or tansy |
teeth |
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forehead |
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blood |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
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eyes |
applied - wash eyes with Cerastium arvense |
itching eyes |
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beauty |
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nursing |
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gender cause, prediction, male child, eye |
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churching, confinement, lying in |
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eyesight |
applied - milk |
measles |
worn - rag |
thrush, thrash |
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eyes, color |
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eyelashes |
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cross-eyed |
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eye ailments, cause, rubber |
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eye ailments |
applied - pith from the Sassafras limb |
eyes |
worn - rings in ears |
eye ailments, sore eyes |
applied - cotton saturated with witch hazel |
eyes |
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fingers |
performed - crossing fingers; close eyes; make wish; (cross legs and toes) |
eyes |
ingested - Carrots |
kisses, kissing |
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beauty |
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character, disposition |
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eyes |
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eye ailments, eyesight |
ingested - urine |
eye ailments, eyesight |
ingested - parsley |
sneezing |
performed - look up with eyes as far as they will go; keep head level |
attributes, longevity |
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eye ailments, black eyes |
applied - beef steak |
virility |
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eye ailments |
performed - pierce ears |
eyes |
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kisses, kissing |
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eyesight |
ingested - pumpkin |
character, disposition |
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