The "Winged Lion" receipt book, or, How to cure all common complaints with simple herbal remedies... / [Potter & Clarke, Ltd].
- Potter & Clarke
- Date:
- [1900?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The "Winged Lion" receipt book, or, How to cure all common complaints with simple herbal remedies... / [Potter & Clarke, Ltd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The “Winged Lion” Medical Receipt Book Acidity of the Stomach. Bitters half an hour before meals are good for Acidity. Make a drink of one packet Centaury and Dandelion Root to 1 pint of water and take a wineglassful three times a day. Anaemia. The “Winged Dion” Consumption Herbs will be found very useful. Take also Slippery Blm Food. Prepared by Dr. Thompson’s Pure Food Co. A good medicine to take would be 1 packet each Bogbean, Comfrey heaves and Marshmallows. Pour on 2 pints of boiling water. When cool strain and take a wineglassful fre¬ quently. Asthma. Take 1 packet each Horehound Vervain, Hyssop and Liquorice Root. Boil in 3 pints of water for half-an- hour. Strain, and add when cold 2-oz.s. Vinegar, £-lb. Honey, and \~oz. Tincture of Lobelia. Dose—A wineglassful frequently. Potter’s Asthma Cure should be taken to relieve the spasmodic cough of Asthma. Alterative. A good Alterative Blood Medicine may be obtained as follows :—Take 1 packet each Yellow Dock Root, Bur¬ dock Root and Figwort Herb, boil in j 3 pints of water for 2 hours, strain and add 4-lb. Sugar. Doss^—One wineglassful three or four times a day. Aperient. The following makes a good general Aperient Senna Leaves, 1 packet; Liquorice Root, 1 packet; Aniseed, 1 dram ; Mandrake Root, 1 dram. Boil in 3 pints of water for 20 minutes, strain and add £-lb. Sugar. Dose—Two or three teaspoonfuls three times a day. Black Eye. 4£d. Cure. Herbs quickly removes the Inflammation and discolouration. Bleeding—Internal. One packet each Cranesbill Herb, Golden Rod and Nettles. Pour on 2 pints boiling water, strain and take a wineglassful frequently. t •. ' 4 ■' - • - Botanic Beer. The following recipe for Botanic Beer will be found valuable. Take of Meadowsweet, Betony, Agrimony and Raspberry Leaves each 1 packet, .boil in 2 gallons of water 15 minutes, strain and add 2-lb. White Sugar. When nearly cool, bottle. This needs no barm or yeast. 4 w . Blood Purifier. Recipe for Blood Purifier :—One packet each Figwort, Burdock Root, Yellow Dock Root and Sassafras & ] Mark is on each packet-- (j/ V l & & r / b* 0 0- V .w 22501435382](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3047758x_0002.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
