222 RECIPES. 
JUNIPER BUSH. 
The berries are counter poisons; a resister of pestilence. 
_ Good in wounds made by serpents or any poisonous reptiles. 
A lye made of the ashes will cure the dropsy. They expel 
wind, strengthen the stomach and eyesight, and repress flux. 
Good for palsy and falling sickness. Eating eight or ten ber- 
ries every morning, fasting, are good for bad cough and short- 
ness of es and consumptive complaints. 
KNOT GRASS. 
The juice will stop bleeding at the nose or stomach. The 
powder of it taken inwardly is good for counteracting the bite 
of any venomous creature. It will expel worms, and is good 
in inflammation, canker, ulsers, broken joints and ruptures. 
- LADY'S SLIPPER, 
Is used instead ot valeriah: and in most cases preferable to 
opium. It promotes sleep and allays the headache. Take 
one tea-spoonful of the powder in warm water and sugar. 
INDIAN HEMP, 
in good for palpitation of the heart, and in old nervous com- 
plaints of women. Take a tea-spoonful in molasses, three 
times a day. Is a good substitute for opium. 
oe 
GUM ARABIC, 
Js good i in dysentery, hoarseness, whooping cough and sup- 
eesion of urine; mix with barley. Slippery amsenetia.: 
water sweetened with loaf sugar, strengthens the appetite. 
~ 
