- 980 = RECIPES. 
LOBELIA, 
Must be dried, pulverized, bottled, and tightly corked. If 
_ properly used, will break up diseases of long standing by its 
powerful action upon the sympathetic nerve. It allays irrita- 
tion and inflammation. It is good in cholera, hydrophobia, 
and bite of all poisonous animals; lockjaw, asthma, fits, 
spasmodic affections, whooping cough, tightness in the chest, 
difficulty in breathing, bilious complaints, and consumption. 
Lobelia will penetrate and equalize the system, removes ob- 
structions, cleanses the stomach and bowels, purifies the 
blood, removes diseases from the lungs and liver—far better 
than calomel ever could or will do. Dose, one tea-spoonful, 
sometimes requires two or three, depends on the constitution 
of the patient and the nature of the disease. When taken 
as a vomit, mix an equal part of blood root with it. It is 
good in case of bilious colic when made into a pill and moist- 
ened with balsam copavia, adding a small quantity of castile 
soap, and take three pills fora dose—and if the patint does 
not get relief in six or eight minutes, repeat the dose. By 
applying the powder to an aching tooth it will soon give re-_ 
lief. A tincture of it will cure the sting of bees, wasps, and 
all poisonous reptiles, and is good in venereal complaints and 
St seeoey 3 fire. 
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BLACK SNAKE ROOT, 
Aids menstrual discharges, good in heartburn; also in 
pregnancy, administered in a tea, two ounces to one pint of 
water, and drink it two or three times a day. It is good 
mixed with slippery elm bark, in child-bed—also in bowel _ 
complaints in children. 
