REMEDIES OF OUR
ANCESTORS
JOSE Mª ALARTE
Dislocations, sprains, etc..
Ordinary treatment.
- To avoid the swelling is necessary, as soon as
it happens the accident, put the injured part in cold water,
water in the previously are poured one ounce of extract of
Saturn.
Compresses applied after camphorated brandy. If this fails
to prevent swelling, the battle with emollients, such as
linseed meal poultices or of marshmallow root.
It is essential to the rest of the ill and also require diet and
drinks refreshments.
SPECIAL TREATMENT. In all cases pains, sprains,
dislocations, it is highly recommended the use of fat
marmot, called Miraculous.
This medicine on account of his name makes laugh not
have used it ever occurs wonderful results.
Chilblains, cracks, CRACK Take a clump of celery, whole,
please to boil for an hour, soon, in three liters of water.
Wash in the morning and afternoon, with the cooking, the
diseased part.
Healing in 6 or 8 days.
- OTHER REMEDY. - In a liter of milk please cook for ten
minutes to a handful of Keep warm, avoid moisture.
Understandable in a pharmacy or herbal 25 grams of root
bark of simarruba (tree of Guiana) and agree to
bake in a liter of wine until reduced by half.
Drink a glass in the morning and afternoon, fasting. Healing
at 24 hours.
In some cases it leads to vomiting tea.
So it is when it comes to viscous would disagree or bilious,
so common in warm climates. Then the cure is still
faster.
Against all kinds of dysentery, here two new and infallible
remedies:
For older people. - Mix the contents of a glass of water and
two cups of vinegar strong, boil until reduced by half;
cold drink in the morning before breakfast, two times,
twenty-minute intervals.
For children. - A diluted egg sugar water, during the day,
cook them of rice.
When in consequence of dysentery they be too strong
stomach pains, please A poultice of chamomile oil (see
chamomile).
PAIN
Ordinary treatment. -There is a portion pain, localized in
different regions, such as are the lumbago (pain in the
kidney) pain in the knee, shoulder, etc.., which are cured
