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This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
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Frey's Vermifuge
Take 1 sweet spirits of nitre, 1½ drachms oil of cuounce castor oil, 1 ounce aromatic syrup of bebs, 2 ounces balsam of copaiba, 1 drachm rhubarb, 30 drops oil of Baltimore wormseed, oil of turpentine, 20 drops oil of cinnamon, and 5 drops croton oil. 3 ounces mucilage of gum-arabic, and suffi-