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Useful Ingredients
If you have these common ingredients, you can try one of the proved remedies for coughs below. Click to learn more about each ingredient. Be sure to determine which recipe would be best for your specific symptoms.
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COUGH
RELATED TO COUGH
Oil of Almonds
Hyssop Water
Licorice Powder
Rosemary Potion
Bay Salt Foot Bath
Ladythistle Water
REMEDIES
Proved Recipes
Oil of Almonds
1/2 pound bitter almonds, 1 handful wormwood, 1/2 pint sallet oil
Blanch the almonds and stamp them very fine. Bruise the wormwood and steep them together overnight in the oil. Still it with a soft fire.
Comfrey root
Comfrey Syrup
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1 handful each comfrey root, betony, colt's foot, and rose leaves, 1 pound kitchen sugar
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Boil the comfrey, betony, colt's foot, and rose leaves in a potell of water until a pint of water remains. Strain through a clean cloth. Simmer the water together with the sugar for half an hour. Take 9 spoonfuls of the
syrup in the morning and again at night and as needed.
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Comfrey Syrup
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6 ounces honey, 1 1/2 ounces powder of allcompane, 1 ounce each of powder of licorice, anyseed, and brown sugar candy, dash of powder of brimstone, 1/2 ounce each of syrup of colt's foot, syrup of licorice, syrup of maiden's hair, and syrup of hyssop
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Mix the ingredients together and stew them together on the fire. Take a spoonful at night before bed and 2 hours before you rise in the morning.