Eliot Wigginton - The Foxfire Book by Volume 01 (pdf)

Author:Volume 01 (pdf) [01, Volume]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-15T07:47:04.109000+00:00

PLATE 241 Harley Carpenter holds a yellowroot plant he has just pulled up from a stream bank near his home.

234 THE FOXFIRE BOOK

Place a large quantity of rock candy in a little white whiskey to make a thick syrup. Take a few spoonfuls of this several times a day.

Apply a mixture of camphor, mutton tallow, soot, pine tar, turpentine, and lard to 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 chest.

Eat raw honey.

Render the fat of a polecat. Eat two or three spoonfuls. This brings up the phlegm.

Mix up hog lard, turpentine, and kerosene. Rub it on chest.

Rub groundhog oil and goose oil on chest. Then cover with a hot flannel cloth.

Wear a flannel shirt with turpentine and lard on it all winter.

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 in teas 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. Add honey and whiskey, if desired.

Boil pine needles to make a strong tea.

Take as much powdered quinine as will stay on the blade of a knife, add to water, and drink.

Parch red pepper in front of a fire. Powder it, cook it in a tea, and add pure white corn liquor.

Put goose-grease salve on chest.

Drink lamb's tongue and whiskey tea.

Drink whiskey and honey mixed.

Drink red pepper tea.

Eat onions roasted in ashes (good for children).

Eat a mixture of honey and vinegar.

Make a tea by putting some pine top needles and boneset in boiling water. You can sweeten it with honey or syrup.

Drink tea made from wintergreen fern.

Make a combination tea from boneset leaves and horsemint leaves.

Take a three-pound can of pine twigs and rabbit tobacco. Boil together and strain. Drink some every three hours, taking no more than one full juice glass within a twelve-hour period.

Drink some of the brine from kraut put up in churn jars. It makes you thirsty, and you drink lots of water.

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