342 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
cayenne to each pint; keep the flannels hot by renewing with 
the hot infusion. If these do not lessen the pain apply the 
compound mustard poultice over the stomach or seat of 
pain. If the tongue is inflamed do not give an emetic, but the 
injection every six hours. To allay the vomiting, if it should 
continue, make an infusion of spearmint, half an ounce in a 
pint of boiling water, to which add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate 
of potash. Give a teaspoonful or two occasionally while 
the vomiting continues. For a daily medicine make a 
decoction of— 
Slippery Elm Bark..... veeeceseeesss One ounce. 
Marshmallow Root... .cceseaeees »+.. One ounce. 
pwqet Plax Root: secii cseens Ore One ounce. 
|MSCES @) 0 ed dg a Ber: i) 51 a One ounce. 
BramNe Git IGE. 4:65 fm vend sel ob a ste One ounce. 
Simmer in three pints of water 15 minutes, strain, and give 
a wineglassful every two hours; keep up the heat at the lower 
extremities and on the surface, and nature will do the curing. 
If the pain should be great, it would give the patient ease by 
giving a teaspoonful of the following mixture not oftener than 
every hour: Muriate of Morphia four grains and infusion of 
slippery elm four ounces. Ifthe pulse is very quick, put in a 
drachm of the tincture of veratrum viride, or if not to be had 
four drachms of tincture of gelsemine. Let the food be of 
the lightest nature—barley water, whey, toasted bread 
dissolved in water, and milk, digestive food, chicken broth, 
&c., given about blood-warm. 
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION 
of the stomach must be treated more by diet than medicine : 
light farinaceous food taken in moderate quantity. The 
digestive food, with plenty ofmilk, is one of the most soothing. 
If there is acidity take a tablespoonful of lime-water in half a 
cupful of milk three times a day; this may be alternated with 
stomach bitters powder or stomach powder for indi gestion; or 
ten grains of golden seal; take after meals: look after the 
