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246 RECIPES. 
FOR THE PILES, 
Take mullin tops (in blossom), nettles, milkweed, and ap- 
ple Peru, equal parts, and boil well together—strain, and add 
_ to one pint one pound fresh butter. Simmer all to a salve, 
and anoint with it. Or boil four ounces dogwood bark, 
four ounces yarrow tops and roots, two ounces sweet elder 
bark, in one pint water—strain, and add one half pound hog’s 
lardy Simmer down to a salve, and anoint the afflicted Bet 
with it. 
TO STOP THE NOSE BLEEDING. 
Chew the leaves of smooth fireweed and swallow the juice. 
Wet a piece of lint with the decoction and put it up the nose. 
The green leaves pounded, or a cloth wet with the decoction 
or juice and laid on a wound, will stop the flow of blood. 
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TO CURE THE PILES. 
‘Drink a strong tea made of fireweed, and pound the 
leaves and lay them on the afflicted part, will cure yi the _ 
The same will cure the dysentery. 
FOR SALT RHEUM. 
Soak pulverized cocosh root in ‘cold water, and mix Evan’s 
root with it, equal parts. Drink the water freely, and wash 
- the afflicted part with it, will effect a cure. 
WORMS. — 
Take two ounces gokden seal, two ounces butternut bade, 
add one-half ounce alum. ‘Give one ton spocedilverclg fei 
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