This section is from the book "Three Meals A Day", by Maud C. Cooke. Also available from Amazon: Three Meals a Day.
Use camphor. Simply wet the finger in it and apply it to the tonsils every few minutes; It will relieve very quickly.
Use a mild solution of borax, salt and muriate of ammonia, in a cupful of soft water; add a drop of carbolic acid and 1 or 2 drops of camphor. Snuff up the nose and use as a gargle.
Mix 3 drops each of peppermint oil, oil of rosemary, oil of cloves and any other pungent oil; put in a tiny bottle and inhale occasionally to clear the head.
1 drachm of chlorate of potash in 1 cupful of warm water. Use for a gargle.
Give the Flaxseed Syrup after every paroxysm, and when the disease is at its height put 1 ounce of the strongest liquid of ammonia in a gallon of boiling water poured in an open pan, and the steam kept up by means of half a brick made thoroughly red-hot and dropped in the pan. Put this in the room and let the patient inhale the ammoniated steam. This will soon end the cough.
A Fish Bone swallowed accidentally may be carried safely down the throat by taking the raw white of an egg as quickly as possible.
Serving asparagus as the chief article of diet and avoiding all acids in food or drink, will effect great relief in a few days. This plant, the Jerusalem artichoke, etc., all natural'? growing near the sea, contains iodine, a rheumatic specific.
Celery also, boiled in milk or water and eaten, with milk or water served as a beverage, is very helpful in the same disease. Eaten in any form it will be found healthful. In Germany they boil the root and stalks, and then eat it as a salad with oil and vinegar.
Nervous people are greatly benefited by a diet of celery. Onions are next best. Parsley with vinegar removes the effects of eating onions. No medicine is really so efficacious in case of nervous prostration, and they tone up a worn-out system in a very short time.
Take 6 large onions to a pint of molasses, steep until a thick syrup is formed. Take every two or three hours. Persevere and success will follow. A tea of burdock roots, or burdock leaves, may be taken at the same time with good effect.
For an outward application, a flannel bag filled with arnica blossoms, and heated in a steamer, may be applied to the spot.
1 part oil of peppermint and 2 parts of alcohol. Apply to the affected parts. The relief is almost instantaneous. Shake well, and keep the bottle closely corked.
Make the liniment strong as possible with good vinegar and wormwood, adding a piece of saltpetre the size of a hickory-nut to ½ pint of the liquid. This is good also for a weak or sprained back.
2 ounces of laudanum.
2 drachms oil of sassafras.
2 drachms oil of cedar.
2 drachms spirits of turpentine.
2 drachms of gum camphor.
2 drachms tincture of capsicum.
1 pint of alcohol.
 
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