Important: Safety Warning
This page describes preparations historically taken to end pregnancy or "bring on the menses." These substances do not work as claimed and are seriously toxic; their use has caused poisoning and death.
In addition, 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.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Mother's Cordial
Take 4 oun- 5336. Radway's Renovating Resolvces cach of starwort (helonias dioica), high ent. A vinous tincture of ginger and cardacranberry bark (viburnum opulus), and blue mom, sweetened with sugar. (Hager and cohosh (caulophyllum thalictroides), and 1 Jacobsen.) pound of partridge-berry (mitchella repens). 5337. Swedish Essence of Life is Bruise or grind the ingredients, and macerate made in this country, under various names. for 3 days with enough strong alcohol to As usually made by apothecaries, it is a tinccover; then displace from them with more ture prepared fr. 4 parts loes, 1 each of alcohol 3 pints of tincture, which are set agaric, rhubarb, zedoary entian, myrrh, and aside, and the ingredients exhausted with hot theriac, with 100 to 120 parts dilute alcohol. water until it passes tasteless. Add 2 pounds The medicin manufacturers usually substisugar and evaporate with a gentle heat t 5 tute cheaper articles for the high-priced pints; then mix with the 3 pints of tincture saffron and rhubarb. (See No. 5365.) and flavor with sassafras.