Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies and Simple Pleasures by Frederick Douglass Opie

Author:Frederick Douglass Opie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-01-17T22:00:00+00:00

FEMALE-SPECIFIC REMEDIES

Women also worked in the turpentine camps and suffered their own hardships. Camp officials mistreated female the same as male workers. Men and women slept in the same barracks on the plantation with no provision made to separate them.161 Hurston describes an antidote for curing what she calls “flooding,” or excessive menstrual bleeding. (There is no indication that Hurston suffered from a similar challenge.)162

Excessive Menstrual Bleeding Remedy Recipe

Makes 1 serving

Grated nutmeg

Pinch of alum

Quart of boiling water

One grated nutmeg, pinch of alum in a quart of water (cooked). Take one-half glass three times daily.163

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