Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
performed - kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence |
cough |
ingested - root of Bauhinia thonningii Schum. (Caesalpiniaceae) |
lips |
applied - goat lard |
nosebleed, lips |
applied - pressure on the upper lip. |
snakebite |
performed - suck out venom |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - Lourdes water to patient’s lips |
mouth, lips |
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gender cause, prediction |
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character, disposition |
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chapped skin |
applied - urine |
sexual passion, virility |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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chapped lips |
applied - sweet cream |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
performed - kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence |
snakebite |
performed - suck out venom |
yawning |
performed - Pressing with finger the upper lips close to the nose. |
lips |
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illness, healing methods, sacrifice |
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skin |
applied - serpent’s blood |
laziness, slothfulness |
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cold sores |
applied - camphor, subnitrate of bismuth |
sexual passion, virility |
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fever blisters |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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worms |
ingested - sugar, turpentine |
chapped lips |
performed--kiss the middle rail of a five-railed fence |
chapped hands |
applied - mixed pure resin, sheep tallow, beeswax |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
performed - kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence |
lips |
applied - goose fat, chicken fat. |
nosebleed, lips |
applied - pressure to the lip. |
wounds |
applied - Solomon’s seal |
lips |
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nosebleed |
applied - penny placed between the upper lips and teeth. |
lips |
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human body |
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lips |
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sexual passion, virility |
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character, disposition, stingy |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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chapped lips, cracked lips |
performed - kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence |
lips |
applied - cattle tallow, goose fat. |
folk illness, mal de loanda, boils |
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nosebleed, lips |
applied - something under the lip. |
thrush, thrash |
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historical items, head to foot, anglo saxon |
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pregnancy |
ingested - any food craved |
illness, healing methods, extraction |
performed - shaman extracts disease and puts in water |
sucking |
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fever |
applied - Lemon juice and glycerine. |
lips |
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lips |
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mouth, lips |
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fever blisters |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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longevity |
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bites, human, snake |
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chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - tallow, mutton tallow |
nosebleed, lips |
applied-pressure on the upper lip. |
cuts, sores, wounds |
applied - pimpernel |
kissing |
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lips |
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lips |
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bodily activities, functions |
applied - little flowers of the mustard weed |
character, disposition |
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mouth, lips |
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chapped skin |
applied - mixture of honey and rose of lavender water; mixture of honey and perfume |
kisses, kissing |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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warts |
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cold sores |
ingested - ginsing root |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - mutton tallow and camphor gum |
foot, feet, cold |
applied - goldenseal to stimulate circulation |
lips |
applied - deer tallow |
nosebleed, lips |
applied - Myrth-berries |
ulcers |
performed - pass peeled rush between lips gently |
wounds |
applied - St. John’s Wort ointment |
head |
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lips |
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sneeze, sneezing |
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prenatal influences |
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birth defects, prenatal influences |
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illness, healing methods, sacrifice |
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kissing |
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lips |
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fingers |
performed - pointing |
aches, pains |
performed - cupping |
lips |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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hiccups, hiccoughs |
ingested - water, drunk backwards |
lips |
applied - alum water |
birthmarks, prenatal influences, removal |
performed - healer put finger on baby’s head and made funny noise with lips (recited charm) -- three times |
chapped lips, cracked skin |
applied - stable dung performed - beat animals three times with the lid of the trough |
cuts, cut lips, chapped lips |
applied - gold-root, chewed raw |
deafness |
applied - smoke from mixture of cigarillo tobacco, hair cut from internal ear of a black dog. |
fever blisters |
applied - butter or oil |
lips |
applied - skin of leg |
nosebleed |
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whooping cough |
performed - charm |
lips |
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spitting, good luck |
performed - spitting |
sexual passion |
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lips |
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harelip |
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lips |
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head ailments |
applied - steel knife blade |
mental abilities, loss |
performed - keep something between lips during sewing |
character, disposition |
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blood |
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kisses, kissing |
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character, disposition, timid |
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birthmarks, removal |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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attributes, lips |
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sexuality |
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lips |
performed - wash mouth with weak salt water |
lips, mouth, sore |
applied - tea of golden thread stems and leaves |
wounds |
applied - distilled water of blue bottle |
lips |
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hair |
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kissing, lips itching |
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female child |
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mustaches |
applied - manure |
lips |
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lips |
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illness |
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kisses, kissing |
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marriage, portent, teeth |
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hair color |
applied - honey, chicken manure |
mouth, lips, tongue |
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attributes, lips |
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chapping |
applied - earwax |
lips |
applied - ointment made by simmering yellowroot, goldthread, and elder bark in lard |
blisters |
applied - match stick after putting in ear. |
cold sores |
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wounds |
applied - juice of blue bottle |
wounds |
Wild tansy |
lips |
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bodily indicators of being thought or talked about |
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virility |
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kisses, kissing |
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kissing, portents |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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attributes, lips |
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animals |
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chapped lips |
performed - run finger behind ear, then over lips |
bites, arachnid, spider, eyes, lips |
applied - ingested - plantain leaves and cobwebs |
lips |
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spinal meningitis |
Scarifying |
sneeze, sneezing |
performed - touch nostrils of a mule with the lips |
lips |
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kissing, lips twitch |
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intelligence, reading |
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lips |
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speaking |
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kisses, kissing |
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mouth, lips |
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kissing, portents |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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attributes, lips |
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chapped lips |
performed - kiss middle rail of five-railed fence |
fever blisters |
applied - wax from ear |
illness, cause, portent |
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lips |
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chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - inner skin of an egg |
fever blisters, styes |
applied - silver |
mouth, lips |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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attributes, lips |
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chapping |
applied - chicken shit |
conjury |
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blisters |
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nosebleed |
applied - dime between lips |
lips |
performed - kiss oven three times. |
finger, index |
performed - pointing at rainbow |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - ear wax |
headaches |
performed - elaborate |
character, disposition, meanness |
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lips |
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character, disposition |
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sickness, portent |
performed - sucking |
mouth, lips, tongue |
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human body, lips, mouth |
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mouth |
performed - kiss a red head |
illness, healer traditions |
performed- triform transference |
chapped lips, hands, feet |
performed - kiss middle bar of five-rail fence |
cold sores, cankers, swollen palate |
applied - alum |
chapped lips |
performed - rub behind ears, rub lips |
fever blisters |
applied - ear wax |
deafness |
applied - aqua vitae, saltpeter, oil of bitter almonds |
bloodletting, headaches |
performed - blood-letting ritual; applied - medicine |
lips |
performed - kiss oven three times. |
lips |
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nerves |
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kissing, lips itching |
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false heart |
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delivery |
applied - water from shoe of man |
calm, even tempered |
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character, disposition, stingy, greedy |
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character, disposition |
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chapped lips |
applied - white part of chicken manure |
lips |
beef tallow |
lips |
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character, disposition, frugal, thrifty, stingy |
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character, disposition |
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character, disposition, cruel |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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human body, lips, fever blisters |
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head, chin, cheek |
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chapped lips, hands, feet |
performed - urinate on hands; wash hands in chamber lye |
chapped lips |
applied - sheep manure |
worms |
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nosebleed |
applied - wet paper between teeth and lips |
blisters |
applied - warm bread; performed - feed bread to cat |
erysipelas |
performed - healer holds hands before mouth, fingertips touching thumbs together beneath chin; purses lips, blows on the places affected. |
lips |
performed - kiss oven. |
bites, arachnid, spider, eyes, lips |
applied - ingested - plantain leaves and cobwebs |
illness, healing methods |
performed - Use the pipe to smoke the patient. |
lips |
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chapped lips |
applied - ear wax |
lips |
applied - camphor |
lips |
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chapped skin |
applied - cow manure |
character, disposition |
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fever blisters |
applied - ear wax |
mouth, lips, tongue |
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chapped lips, hands, feet |
performed - wash hands in first snow |
urine, urination, urinating |
performed - A male child could not urinate, so a neighbor lady prescribed filling one's mouth with warm water, finding a spider web, placing it over one's lips, and then letting the water drip through onto the penis. |
health, illness prevention |
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nosebleed |
applied - quarter between lips and teeth |
chapped lips |
applied - adhesive tape |
epilepsy |
performed - exorcism by a conjuring woman (bajalica) |
lips |
applied - moist chewing tobacco |
fright |
performed - elaborate ritual |
cancer, lips |
performed - powwowing |
lips |
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animal in body |
performed - sucking |
character, liar |
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chapped lips |
applied - rub finger behind ear and then over your lips |
mouth, lips, tongue |
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token, sign |
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chapped lips, hands, feet |
applied - buffalo tallow; mutton tallow |
chapped lips |
performed - kiss middle rail of a five rail fence |
heart, palpitations, hide bound |
performed - recite charm |
lips |
applied - stag fat, candle wax in beer |
bites, arachnid, spider, eyes, lips |
applied - ingested - plantain leaves and cobwebs |
birth defects, prenatal influences |
worn - bunch of keys on waist |
blemishes, carbuncles, bloody flux, urinary problems, ulcers |
ingested - applied - bees |
lips |
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character, disposition |
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chapped lips, cracked skin |
applied - mutton tallow |
attributes, longevity |
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character, disposition, stingy, greedy |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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head, chin, cheek |
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chapped lips |
performed - rub finger behind ears, apply to lips. |
chapped lips |
performed - Wash in a ptisan of boiled savoyane (saponaria officinalis). |
lips |
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wounds |
applied - juice of leaves of cleaver |
birth defects, prenatal influences |
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gender, cause, prediction |
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baptism |
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death, funeral, mourning |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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fever blisters |
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jaundice |
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lips |
|
lips |
performed - paint mouth or lips red |
character, disposition |
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umbilicus, umbilical cord |
applied - honey |
lips |
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character, disposition, untrustworthy |
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character, disposition |
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evil eye |
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mouth, lips |
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pregnancy |
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cracked lips |
applied - natural oil from behind ears and along hairline |
chapped lips, cracked lips, cold sores |
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fever |
ingested - glycerine and lemon juice |
lips |
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mental ailments |
applied - various substances (see text), inhaled - fumes of camphora, henbane, opium, saffron |
mouth |
applied - stomach of a live frog |
lips |
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mouth, lips |
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spirits |
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stye |
applied - silver |
chapped lips |
performed - kiss middle bar of five rail fence |
character, disposition, good traits |
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nosebleed |
applied - dime |
chapped lips, cracked lips, cold sores |
applied - performed - rub the finger behind the ear, then over the lips |
fever blisters, lips |
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lips |
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snakebite |
ingested - yellow paint performed - painting red on face, white on lips, with black dot symbolizing the snake’s hole over the left eye |
illness unspecified |
ingested - tea |
lips |
|
lips |
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mouth, lips |
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kissing |
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character, disposition, generous, unselfish |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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conjury, blindness, luck |
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chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - earwax |
consumption |
performed - ritual abstraction of disease through sucking. |
sores |
Solomon’s seal |
illness, healer traditions, shaman, sucking |
performed - pain sucked from body |
lips |
applied - rouge on lips |
cancer |
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cold sores |
applied - vinegar |
mouth, lips |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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chapping |
performed - rub behind ear then on lips |
hiccups, hiccoughs |
performed - drink water from the opposite side of the glass |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - kid (baby goat) suet or similar fat |
hiccups, hiccoughs |
ingested - Water in the manner of the dog. |
malaria |
performed - elaborate ceremony |
whooping cough |
ingested - holy water from chalice used in Roman Catholic services |
attributes, longevity |
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mouth, lips |
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hiccups, hiccoughs |
performed - drink water from opposite side of glass |
mouth, lips, tongue |
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conjury, blindness |
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cold sores |
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nosebleed |
applied - brown paper. |
blemishes, chilblains, soft corns, poison ivy, insect bites, fever sores, body odors, oily skin, sore lips, sunburn, tired feet, warts |
applied - Hokara, a massage cream |
chapped lips, cracked lips |
applied - garlic skin |
ailments, injury, hurts |
Solomon’s seal |
chapped skin |
Beef fat (tallow) especially beneficial to chapped skin. Use profusely on hands and lips. |
cold sores |
performed - Rub Ear, Then Lip |
mouth, lips |
|
character, disposition |
|
character, disposition |
|
mouth, lips, tongue |
|
chapped lips, cracked lips |
ingested - gold-root |
human body |
|
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - miraculous medal to lips |
fever blisters |
applied - ear wax. |
lips, fingers |
performed - keep lips and fingers tightly together; keep lips and fingers carefully open |
lips |
|
mouth, lips |
|
cold sores |
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mouth, lips, tongue |
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bronchitis, consumption |
|
chapped lips, cracked lips |
performed - kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence |
frostbite |
performed - ritual done by old woman |
lips |
|
lips |
|
lips |
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illness, healer traditions |
|
illness, healing methods, sacrifice |
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illness, healing methods, sucking |
performed - suck patient’s abdomen and spit out objects |
baptism |
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character, ill natured |
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death, funeral, conduct of survivors |
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cold sores |
applied - -- Earwax |
itching lips |
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mouth, lips |
|
character, disposition |
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blood |
|
mouth, lips, tongue |
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chapping |
performed - kiss fence |