Arthritis
• Drink a mixture of honey,
vinegar, and moonshine.
• Make a tea from either the
seeds or leaves of alfalfa.
• Drink powdered rhubarb
dissolved in white whiskey.
• A magnet draws it out of the
body.
Asthma
• In one pint of gin, place
several pieces of the
heartwood of a pine tree.
Leave them in the gin until
they turn brown. Then take
one teaspoonful of the
mixture twice a day.
• Suck salty water up your
nose.
• Smoke or sniff rabbit tobacco.
• Swallow a handful of spider
webs rolled into a ball.
• Keep a Chihuahua dog
around the house.
• Gather leaves from ginseng,
dry and powder them. Put
the powder in a pan, place a
hot coal on top of it, and
inhale the smoke.
Chest Congestion
• Apply a mixture of camphor,
mutton tallow, soot, pine
tar, turpentine, and lard to
the chest.
• Make an onion poultice by
roasting an onion, then
wrapping it in spun-wool
rags and beating it so that
the onion juice soaks the
rags well. Apply these rags
to the chest.
• Render the fat of a polecat.
Eat two or three spoonfuls.
This brings up the phlegm
(Skunk oil again, methinks).
• Eat raw honey.
• Wear a fl annel shirt with
turpentine and lard on it
all winter (and make lots of
friends).
Colds
• Make a tea from the leaves
of boneset. Drink the tea
when it has cooled. It will
make you sick if taken hot.
Leaves of this plant may also
be cured out and saved for
use during the winter
months.
• Make a tea from powdered
ginger, or ground up ginger
roots. Do not boil the tea, but
add the powdered root to a
cup of hot water and drink.
• Boil pine needles to make a
strong tea.
• Parch red pepper in front
of the fi re. Powder it, cook
it in a tea, and add pure
white corn liquor.
Colic
• Tie an asafetida bag ‘round a
baby’s neck for six months to
keep away six months’ colic.
• Drink Sampson’s snake root
tea.
• Boil two or three roots of
ginseng in a pint of water,
then strain and drink.
Cough
• Put some ground ginger
from the store in a saucer
and add a little sugar. Put
it on the tongue just before
bedtime. It burns the throat
and most of the time will
stop coughs.
• Dissolve four sticks of
horehound candy in a pint
of whiskey and take a couple
of spoonfuls a day. This is
also good for TB.
• Boil one cup of wild cherry
bark in a pint of water. Add
some syrup and cook until it
gets thick.
Croup
• Squeeze the juice out of a
roasted onion and drink.
• For a baby, pour a mixture of
turpentine and white
whiskey into a saucer and
set it afi re. Hold the baby
over the smoke until he
breathes it deeply. This
loosens him up.