238 ee RECIPES, 
MULLIN, 
Mullin is useful in various complaints. When boiled in 
milk and drank, is good for looseness of the bowels and flux. 
A strong tea made of mullin and drank freely will help 
cramps, convulsions, fits, bursts, old coughs, and good for 
opening urinary passages and gravel. A tea of the seeds 
drank freely will cure colic of all kinds and gout. The 
leaves pounded and laid on a new-sprained joint will ease 
the pain and reduce the swelling. 
FEMALE ROOT AND FLOWER, 
Is good in all female difficultiés, or menses, obstructed. It 
is found plentifully in the State of Michigan. It has green 
leaves and yellow blossoms, and has three or four roots to a 
stem. 
YELLOW DOCK. 
Yellow dock is good in dropsical cases, and cleanses the 
blood. 
_ CRAMP ROOT. 
Cramp root made into a tea cures night atone aah it in 
: ee and it is good in fevers. 
FOR MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.) 
~ Take four ounces summer savory, one ounce pennyroyal, 
one ounce sage, one ounce spearmint, steep all in one quart 
water thoroughly, and take one-half wine-glassful three times 
ad day, one-half hour before eating. 
