ce hops.
Infuse in cold water, three quarts, two or three days. Add a pint of
whisky, and bottle. Dose: A teaspoonful three times a day.
ALTERATIVE, OR LIVER POWDER.
Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin,
twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains. Triturate or rub the whole
well together in a mortar and divide into twenty powders, and take one
night and morning. If they operate much on the bowels take but one a
day.
_Uses:_ Valuable in liver complaint, torpidity of the liver, and as an
alterative to act on the secretions of the system generally. A
complete substitute for blue pill and free from any danger.
HEPATIC AND ALTERATIVE POWDER.
Take equal parts, say of each half an ounce, of finely powdered blue
flag root, bloodroot, May apple root, golden seal root, and
bitterroot. Mix all together and pass through a fine sieve. Dose: As
an alterative and to act on the liver and secretions, from two to five
grains two or three times a day.
CATHARTIC AND LIVER PILLS.
Take podophyllin, sixty grains; leptandrin and sanguinaria, ipecac and
pure cayenne, each thirty grains. Make into sixty pills with a little
soft extract of mandrake or dandelion. This is the best pill that can
be used as a cathartic and liver pill and to act on the secretions
generally. As a purgative the dose is from two to four pills for a
grown person, and as an alterative and substitute for blue mass and to
act on the liver, one pill once a day or every other day.
ANTI-DYSPEPTIC PILLS.
Take Socotrine aloes, two drams; colocynth, gamboge, rhubarb, and
castile soap, each one dram; cayenne, thirty grains; oil cloves,
thirty drops. Make into one hundred and twenty pills with extract of
gentian or dandelion. Dose: For dyspepsia, inactive liver or
costiveness, one or two pills once a day; as a cathartic, three to
five pills at a dose. This is a splendid pill. It cleanses the
stomach, gives tone and energy to the digestive organs, restores the
appetite, excites the liver and other secretory organs, without
causing any debility.
ANOTHER ANTI-DYSPEPTIC PILL.
Take Quevenne's powdered metallic iron, forty grains; rhubarb, twenty
grains; extract of nux vomica, one grain. Triturate well in a small
mortar, so as to mix them perfectly, and make into twenty pills with
extract of boneset or gentian. Take one
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