Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
asthma, colic |
performed - Lime. Citrus |
asthma |
performed - smoke pipe |
asthma |
ingested - steeped mullein leaves |
asthma |
performed - put a nail in fireplace at person’s height. |
asthma |
ingested - milk, lizard |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
asthma |
performed - tie some of victim’s hair in red flannel and put in crack of door |
asthma |
performed - plug hole in post or tree above child’s head with lock of his hair |
asthma |
performed - clip child’s toenails and fingernails, cut lock of hair, place clippings in hole bored in a pear tree; plug hole with a peg |
asthma, arthritis, rheumatism, appendicitis, appendix, warts, sties, styes |
performed - transfer to animal plant or another person. |
asthma |
ingested - garden balm tea |
asthma |
ingested - dog’s lard, extract of apple, forest moss |
asthma |
wild plumb bark |
asthma |
ingested - carrots |
asthma |
performed - hair placed in hole in tree |
asthma |
performed - transfer to Chihuahua |
asthma |
performed - hang elder stick in the loft |
asthma |
performed - plugging ritual |
asthma |
worn - nutmeg |
asthma |
performed - nail, beech tree |
asthma |
turnip root, molasses |
asthma |
ingested - Yarrow |
asthma |
vomiting- water, apple water |
asthma |
worn - hide of muskrat on chest |
asthma |
prayer ? |
asthma |
ingested - live snails swallowed like oysters |
hay fever |
Corn oil |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
inhaled - jimson weed |
asthma |
inhaled - steam |
asthma |
performed - keep a chihuahua |
asthma |
performed - sleep with a Mexican Chihuahua |
asthma |
ingested - juice from onion baked with white or brown sugar |
asthma |
smoked millet |
asthma |
performed - place hair in a tree |
measles |
|
asthma |
performed - sheep entrails |
asthma |
performed - smoke clay pipe |
asthma |
performed - stand child in hot blood of killed creetur (creature) |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of hornet’s nest. |
asthma |
inhaled - hornet’s nest |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
asthma |
performed - measure child against tree; bore hole in tree; stop hole with child’s hair |
asthma |
worn - string of amber beads around the neck |
asthma |
egg, sulphur |
asthma |
ingested tea of bahama grass, coconut fiber, sage leaves. inhaled ground rosemary and menthol |
asthma |
ingested - asses milk boiled with bulbs. |
asthma |
ingested - ginseng root |
asthma |
ingested - boiled carrots |
asthma |
performed - place hair in hole in tree. |
asthma |
jimson weed |
asthma |
performed - sleep with a Mexican hairless, Chihuahuas |
asthma |
inhaled - elderberry oil |
asthma |
performed - elaborate ceremony |
asthma |
nutmeg |
asthma |
performed - measuring |
asthma |
decoction of milkweed / maromay leaves |
asthma |
worn - hide of muskrat on chest, fur side in. |
dizziness |
ingested - snails |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
cancer, headaches, asthma |
|
illness, healer traditions |
performed - plug lock of hair into hole in piece of wood |
asthma |
performed - keep a chihuahua |
asthma |
performed - clip child’s toenails and fingernails, cut lock of hair, place clippings in hole bored in a pear tree; plug hole with a peg |
asthma |
ingested - whiskey, sweet-gum |
coughing, spitting blood, vomiting |
ingested - bile of the black bear |
asthma |
applied - mud dauber nest. |
asthma |
ingested - burdock seeds |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
asthma |
ingested bat flesh curry |
asthma |
bath in lake, dry off in blanket |
asthma |
inhaled - ginseng weed |
asthma |
ingested - chicken gizzards |
asthma |
ingested - boiled carrots |
asthma |
hair placed in hole bored in tree |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke jimson weed |
asthma |
performed - sleep with a Mexican hairless |
asthma, coughing |
ingested - elderberry electuary |
asthma |
performed - plugging, measuring |
asthma |
performed - hair, tree |
asthma |
ingested - foam from a mule’s mouth |
asthma |
ingested - butter, vinegar, sugar, ginger, nutmeg |
asthma |
ingested - milkweed decoction |
asthma |
storax |
bronchial asthma, bronchial troubles |
performed - back the child against a tree and peg a lock of hair from his crown into a gash cut in the tree |
contagion |
applied - tobacco smoke |
cough, colds, whooping cough, croup, asthma, influenza, bronchitis |
ingested - Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
|
asthma |
inhaled - saltpeter |
asthma |
performed - carry a Chihuahua |
asthma |
worn - rabbit’s foot |
asthma |
ingested - Andromeda polifolia |
asthma |
inhaled - rabbit tobacco |
asthma |
performed - put child’s hair in hole in tree |
asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - bark of wild plum tree |
asthma |
worn - muskrat |
asthma |
ingested - Elderberry root tea |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
asthma |
ingested liver of Trinidad blackbird (aka Old Witch) |
asthma |
|
asthma, ague, chills, fever |
ingested - boiled carrots [also, cobwebs] |
asthma |
ingested - honey, sulphur [sulfur] |
asthma |
performed - get a Chihuahuas |
asthma |
performed - hair in tree hole. |
asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - hair, nailed to tree |
asthma |
ingested - fodder tea |
asthma |
applied dried mole skin |
asthma |
worn - hide of muskrat on chest over lungs. |
asthma |
inhaled - air in a stable |
asthma |
ingested - suck salty water up your nose |
cough |
|
whooping cough |
|
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - vinegar, salt |
asthma |
inhaled - ammonia |
asthma |
performed - buy a Chihuahua |
asthma |
worn - topaz |
asthma |
inhaled - cow chips |
asthma |
ingested - sassafras tea |
asthma |
worn - nutmeg |
asthma |
inhaled - horehound leaf smoke |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - rub neck, chest, and wrists with cold and hot water |
asthma |
cedar berries and ginger |
asthma |
ingested - carrots |
asthma |
carrots |
asthma |
performed - transfer to Chihuahua |
asthma |
performed - hole in tree, hair |
asthma |
applied dried mole skin |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke dried sheep sorrel leaves |
asthma |
ingested - drink sassafras tea, smoke life-everlasting [rabbit tobacco?], or boil it and drink the tea. |
croup |
ingested - tobacco tea |
pulmonary |
inhaled - applied - ingested - tobacco. |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - sleep with a chihuahua puppy |
asthma |
outgrow nail in tree |
indigestion |
|
asthma |
ingested - honey, sulfur |
asthma |
worn - muskrat skin |
asthma |
topaz |
asthma |
ingested - whiskey, pine needles |
asthma |
performed - collect personal information and put in Bible, measure height |
asthma |
performed - hold child upside down, mark height |
asthma |
performed - notch tree to height of victim |
asthma |
performed - sleep on pillow of shoemake berries. |
arthritis, asthma, cough |
ingested - honey |
asthma |
performed - put child’s hair in bark of tree at child’s height |
asthma |
inhaled - Jimson weed smoke |
asthma |
performed - plug tree with hair |
arthritis |
ingested - ground deer horn tea |
asthma |
worn - amber |
asthma |
inhaled - bluebell flower cigarettes |
asthma |
crabs’ shells with bread and butter |
asthma |
jimson leaves |
asthma |
ingested - cat’s meat |
asthma |
ingested - everlasting (anaphalis margaritacea) |
asthma |
performed - plugging hair |
asthma |
ingested - laukahi tea |
asthma |
ingested - all- flower water (urina vaccoe.) |
asthma |
inhaled - dried mullein leaves used as tobacco or snuff |
asthma |
applied ?; “skunk water” |
asthma |
ingested - one drop of essence of skunk, diluted in half a gill of spring water |
eye ailments, asthma, shortness of breath |
ingested - nicotine, eyebright (Euphrasia) |
illness, remedies |
foxglove |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - goat’s milk |
asthma |
performed - keep a chihuahua |
asthma |
performed - willow |
asthma |
ingested - honey, lemon, whiskey |
asthma |
inhaled - burning chicken feathers |
asthma |
ingested -- six egg whites and water from horse tank |
asthma |
performed - measure child against tree |
asthma |
performed - nails |
asthma |
performed - transfer to asthma dog (Mexican Chihuahua) |
asthma |
applied - skin of poisonous snake. |
asthma |
ingested - mullein leaf tea |
asthma |
performed - plug with hair |
asthma |
performed - drive hole in tree, put lock of child’s hair in hole and plug |
asthma, whooping cough, croup |
worn - amber necklaces |
hay fever, migraines, asthma |
corn oil |
asthma |
horehound syrup |
asthma |
inhaled - jimson weed |
asthma |
performed - keep a cat around |
asthma |
performed - sleep with a Chihuahuas |
asthma |
pillow of life everlasting plant (gnaphalium purpreum) |
asthma |
performed - hair glued into hole in tree. |
asthma |
performed - nail parings, ash tree |
asthma |
ingested - turtle ash |
asthma |
cold bath |
asthma |
performed - bury mullein leaf under the drip of the house |
asthma |
ingested - syrup made of ground spikenard root, sweet flag root, elecampane root, and common chalk, mixed with honey |
asthma |
ingested - skunk’s cabbage |
lungs |
ingested - Extract of foxglove. |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - garlic |
asthma |
performed - be in proximity to a chihuahua |
asthma |
worn - bag of sulfur |
asthma |
worn - live frog |
arthritis |
ingested - ground deer horn tea |
asthma |
ingested - carrots |
asthma |
performed - breathe into paper bag with frog in it. |
asthma |
performed - plugging, lock of hair in tree |
asthma |
performed - measure child against tree |
asthma |
performed, hair |
quinsy |
worn - black silk cord around neck |
asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - drive stakes at child’s head and feet. |
asthma |
inhaled - mullein leaf smoke |
asthma |
performed - plug with hair |
asthma |
ingested - mixture boiled together of wild plum bark, sugar, whiskey |
asthma |
worn - amber beads |
asthma |
|
asthma |
inhaled - smoke Life Everlasting, which is rabbit’s tobacco, cudweed |
asthma |
hornet’s nest (smoked) |
asthma |
ingested - jimson weed |
asthma |
ingested - broth of black cat |
asthma |
inhaled - cigarettes of digitalis |
asthma |
ingested - feriga root tea |
asthma |
hair in door or window-casing. |
asthma |
ingested - collard roots, sugar |
asthma |
performed - nail clippings, door frame |
asthma |
inhaled - balsamic aether |
asthma |
performed - sleep on dried & smoked leaves of the moth mullein, soaked in saltpeter water |
asthma, dropsy, edema |
ingested - root of skunk cabbage used internally |
whooping cough, pertussis, asthma |
worn - spiders in a muslin bag around neck; ingested - pills made of spiders’ webs |
patent medicines |
ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - sleep with chihuahuas |
asthma |
performed - tree, hair |
asthma |
ingested - melted butter, turpentine, sugar |
asthma |
ingested - turtle ashes |
asthma |
ingested - tea of chestnut leaves |
stuttering, asthma |
performed - measure child against wall |
asthma |
performed - keep socks or stockings on at night. |
asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - measure child against sweet gum tree; drill hole above head; put child’s hair in hole |
asthma |
worn - amber bead necklace |
asthma |
ingested - black dog’s blood |
asthma |
applied - hare’s skin to chest. |
asthma |
applied - cobwebs |
asthma |
inhaled - Indian Tobacco (Lobelia Inflata) |
asthma |
jimson weed |
asthma |
applied - black cat, skull shavings |
asthma |
inhaled - cigarettes of twining plants |
asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - hair into beech tree |
asthma |
ingested - plum bark, whiskey |
asthma |
ingested - wild plum tea |
asthma |
|
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of mullein leaves |
asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - dried and powdered roots of skunk cabbage |
consumption, asthmatic |
performed - spit in the mouth of a frog before sunrise |
bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumptive, throat diseases |
ingested - Brown’s Bronchial Troches |
patent medicines |
ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
ingested - and applied - ground hog grease, onions, lamp oil, tobacco. eat and rub on chest. |
asthma |
chihuahuas |
asthma |
performed - hole in the wall |
asthma |
ingested - fermented coconut, brown sugar candy |
asthma |
ingested - mixture boiled together of wild plum bark, sugar, whiskey |
asthma |
ingested - horse radish, honey |
neuralgia, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - plugging |
asthma, consumption, gout, scurvy, enamel of teeth, nails, hair |
cabbage |
asthma |
performed - live in open, rest ingested - eggs, milk, life-everlasting tea |
asthma |
ingested - comfrey tea |
asthma |
ingested - liquid from steeping dried red-clover blossoms, ground flaxseed, boiling water; strain and add sugar and lemon juice |
asthma, lungs |
performed - bore hole in old walnut tree at patient’s height, put lock of patient’s hair in hole, plug hole |
asthma |
ingested - tree sap tea. |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of thronapple leaves |
asthma |
worn - copper wire around neck while sleeping |
asthma |
worn amber bead necklace |
asthma |
ingested - powdered badger, flour, jackdaw stew, sugar |
asthma |
applied - poultice of hops and flaxseed. |
asthma |
ingested cobwebs |
asthma |
ingested - ivy leaves, alder sap |
asthma |
|
asthma |
inhaled - cigarettes of poppy leaves |
asthma |
ingested - fasting spittle |
asthma |
performed - put hair in red flannel, in floor crack |
asthma |
ingested - topaz powdered, wine |
asthma |
ingested - saffron in wine |
asthma |
performed - sleep on dried & smoked leaves of the common mullein |
asthma |
performed - stand patient in the entrails of a sheep |
asthma |
ingested - skunk cabbage as an expectorant |
consumption, coughs, asthma, dropsy, edema |
Hedge Vine |
asthma, fertility |
ingested - Ginseng root |
patent medicines |
ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - bury hickory bush limb. |
asthma |
performed - put hair in hole in a tree |
asthma |
ingested - onion juice, honey |
mental illness |
ingested - topaz |
asthma |
performed - measure child against sweet gum tree; drill hole above head; put child’s hair in hole |
asthma |
ingested - wild cherry bark tea |
asthma |
applied - frog skins |
asthma |
worn - amber beads |
asthma |
performed - keep Mexican hairless (Chihuahua) close |
cold, asthma |
ingested - Slippery-bur. Corchoras siliquosus L. |
asthma |
ingested - whole body of a crab |
asthma |
ingested - jimsonweed tea |
asthma |
ingested - hop-seed pellets |
asthma, lungs |
performed - dig deep hole inhaled - take deep breaths from hole |
asthma |
performed - plug what you “spit up” during the asthmatic attack. |
asthma |
ingested - liquid made by boiling down bark of root of wild plum tree |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of tobacco |
asthma, croup |
performed - measure child against tree, bore hole, put hair in hole, plug hole |
asthma |
performed - sleep with Mexican Chihuahua |
asthma |
worn necklace of amber beads |
asthma |
applied - poultice of flannel cloth dipped in hot lard and onions. |
asthma |
ingested - coal oil kerosene |
asthma |
ingested - malot grass tea. |
asthma |
Indian tobacco |
asthma |
|
asthma |
worn - line of crickets on a silk string |
asthma |
performed - put hair in tree hole |
asthma |
snails |
asthma |
ingested - chestnut tea |
asthma |
ingested - apothecary morsell willy file |
asthma |
inhaled - yellow flowered mullein smoke |
asthma |
performed - stand in warm sheep entrails |
colds, coughs, asthma, lungs |
ingested - Extract of Fox Lungs, or Lungs of Hart, Buck, or Doe. |
patent medicines |
ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - sleep on hickory stick |
asthma |
performed - keep a chihuahua |
asthma |
ingested - boiled garlic and milk |
asthma |
worn - copper wire around neck while sleeping |
asthma |
applied - live frog |
asthma |
ingested - goat’s milk |
asthma |
worn - muskrat skin over the chest |
asthma |
ingested - carrot in large quantities |
asthma |
performed - smoke hornet’s nest in a pipe that has never been used |
asthma |
performed - bury limb that was as high as patient. |
asthma |
ingested - fodder tea |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of smoldering rabbit tobacco |
asthma |
performed - smoke mullen leaves in a pipe |
asthma, croup |
performed - measure child against tree, bore hole, put hair in hole, plug hole |
asthma, shortness of breath |
ingested - milk of gum ammoniac, syrup of squills |
asthma |
climate of Santa Barbara, California |
asthma |
ingested - fox lungs |
asthma |
cotton roots |
asthma |
ingested - roasted Metl Cotszili leaf sap |
asthma |
frog |
asthma |
ingested - roast cat |
asthma |
performed - transference to old dishcloth |
asthma |
ingested - garlic mustard |
asthma |
performed - puthair in wall hole |
asthma |
inhaled - plantain leaves |
asthma, arthritis, rheumatism, appendicitis, appendix, warts, sties, styes |
performed - transference |
asthma |
woodbine |
asthma, lung congestion |
inhaled - mullein (mullen) leaves |
asthma |
performed - at dawn, while dew still heavy, lie down in a sheep fold or where sheep have lain |
patent medicines |
Ballard’s Wonderful Golden Oil |
patent medicines |
ingested - Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
performed - sleep with hickory limb. |
illness |
applied - Medications from drug store. |
asthma |
ingested - water, sugar, red and black pepper, cloves, mustard seed |
asthma |
inhaled - marijuana |
asthma |
performed - sleep with Mexican Chihuahua |
asthma |
ingested - plum tree tea |
asthma |
performed - bury dishrags |
asthma |
ingested - wild plum syrup, water, sugar |
cold, cough, asthma |
rock brake, ingested - kerosene |
asthma |
worn - rabbit’s foot |
asthma |
ingested - spider webs rolled into ball |
asthma |
performed - smoke dry life everlasting |
asthma |
performed - drive nail into oak tree at patient’s height. |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of wormfuge |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke from burning ginseng |
asthma |
Andromeda polifolia |
asthma |
performed - bleeding |
asthma |
ingested - fox lungs - boiled. |
asthma |
caraway oil |
asthma |
applied - mutton tallow and heat |
asthma |
performed - keep company with cats |
asthma |
ingested - foam form a donkey’s mouth |
asthma |
ingested - peach tree |
asthma |
ingested - spider web |
asthma |
inhaled - thorn apple |
asthma |
ingested - moss from shellbark walnut |
asthma |
inhaled - mullein smoke |
asthma |
performed - split a sapling and pass a child with asthma through and back again |
asthma |
ingested - swallow slugs alive |
goiter |
worn - amber beads |
headaches, asthma |
performed - lean your head against a tree and have someone drive a nail into opposite side of the tree. |
migraine headaches |
Corn oil |
cough, colds, conumption, whooping cough, croup, asthma |
ingested - Down’s Vegetable Balsamic Elixir |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
applied - snuff and white vasaline rubbed on chest. Vasaline is covered with brown paper and wrapped in blanket or sweater. |
asthma |
ingested - horehound |
asthma |
inhaled - rabbit tobacco |
quinsy |
worn - black silk cord around neck |
liver, bile, scurvy, erysipelas, asthma, fever |
cranberries |
asthma |
performed - cut hair, measure |
internal pains, asthma, vomiting blood |
ingested - fat of a wolf, wolf’s heart |
asthma |
performed - smoke mullein leaves |
asthma |
ingested - chicken gizzards |
asthma |
wild plum bark |
asthma |
asthmatic dog |
asthma |
performed - plug hair into tree. |
asthma |
applied - nutmeg, whiskey, rum residue |
asthma |
ingested - mullen tea sweetened with honey |
asthma |
performed - measure child on tree struck by lightning |
asthma |
applied - Asafetida feet solution |
asthma |
inhaled - smoke of “old field basalm” |
asthma |
ingested - liver and lungs of fox in red wine. |
asthma |
cloves (inhaled) |
asthma |
ingested - nutrilite |
asthma |
performed - nail hair to tree |
asthma |
ingested - spider webs |
asthma |
ingested - jimson weed tea |
asthma |
performed - walking around the house |
asthma |
performed - sleep on dried & smoked leaves of the moth mullein |
asthma |
performed - split a sapling and pass a child with asthma through and back again |
childhood diseases, asthma |
|
asthma |
applied - sulphur |
asthma |
ingested - a ball of spider’s webs |
asthma |
ingested - tea of wild cherry bark |
asthma |
inhaled - salt water |
asthma |
inhaled - mullein |
asthma |
performed - breathe in catfish’s mouth |