--Decoctions; Embrocation & Liniments :-
--Decoctions :- These should only be made as they are wanted; pipkins or tin sauce-pans should be used for the purpose; and no decoction should be boiled longer than ten minutes.
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--Dandelion :- Take 2 oz of the freshly-sliced root, and boil in a quart of water until it comes to a pint. ~ Dose, from 2 to 4 table spn, that is to say, from an eighth of a pint to a qtr of a pint. ~ Use for sluggish state of the liver.
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--Embrocations & Liniments :- These remedies are used externally as local stimulants, to relieve deep-seated inflammation when other means cannot be employed, as they are more easily applied locally.
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--Anodyne and Discutient,-
--Take 2 tea spn of scraped white soap, half a tea spn of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by gentle heat in 6 oz of olive oil. ~ Use for bruises and sprains 'but not glandular enlargements, which should be rubbed'.
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--Strong Ammoniated,-
--Add 1 oz of strong liquid ammonia to 2 oz of olive oil; shake well together until properly mixed. ~ Use as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, lumbago, sciatica, and in bronchitis &c. Note that this embrocation must be used with care, and only employed in very obstinate cases.
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--Compound Ammoniated,-
--Add 6 drachma of oil of turpentine to the strong Ammoniated liniment above. ~ Use for the diseases mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and chronic affections of the knee and ankle joints.
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--Carron Oil,-
--Take equal parts of common linseed oil and lime water and shake well. ~ Use when soaked on lint, for burns, scalds, sun peelings, &c.
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--Camphorated,-
--Take half an oz of camphor and dissolve it in 2 oz of olive oil. ~ Use as a stimulant and soothing application for rheumatic pains.
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--Soap Liniment with Spanish Flies,-
--Take 3 oz and a half of soap liniment and a half oz of tincture of Spanish flies; mix and shake well. ~ Use as a stimulant to chronic bruises, sprains, and rheumatic pains.
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--For Rheumatism, Lumbago, Pains, Bruises, and Bites of Insects,-
--1 raw egg, well beaten, half a pint of vinegar, 1 oz of spirits of turpentine, a qtr of an oz of spirits of wine, a qtr of an oz of camphor. These ingredients to be beaten well together, then put in a bottle and shaken for 10 minutes, after which, to be corked down tightly to exclude the air. In half an hour it is fit for use. ~ Directions,- To be well rubbed in, 2,3, or 4 times a day. For rheumatism in the head, to be rubbed at the back of the neck and behind the ears.
--Root of Solomon's seal (sold by herbalists) scraped and applied on a wet rag soon removes discoloration, e.g. black eye [see also Bruises and Wounds, in Homeopathic Treatment of Ailments, in later post.]
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--Turpentine,-
--Take 2 oz and a half of resin cerate, and melt it by standing the vessel in hot water; then add 1 oz and a half of oil of turpentine, and mix. ~ Use as stimulant to ulcers, burns, scalds, &c. This must be applied on lint.
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-- < EWUE 118th Ed. HJLtd Pub. 1933 >
--[Warning Note : these excerts of home remedies are not advisory, and are from 85 years ago. The responsibility of use is the reader's.]
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--I haven't actually been sun-burned since a disciplinary sergeant had me on a charge for self-influcted wound, but I know from first hand that Carron Oil works well, and I've never bought a commercial lotion. Simon.T.
''Never Open The Door To A Little Vice, Lest A Great One Should Enter Also.''