. The book of woodcraft . lse two pounds of the bark, smashed in a gallon of water till only one pint of the fluid isleft. A tablespoonful of this three times a day is a goodremedy for bowel trouble. Chills and fever: Two pounds of white poplar or whitewillow bark, smashed up and soaked for twenty-four hoursin a gallon of water and boiled down to a pint, make a sureremedy for chills and fever. A dessertspoonful four timesa day is the proper dose. A tea made of spice bush twigs is a good old remedy forchills and fever. Make it strong, and sip it hot all day. Cold or fever cure: A decoct
. The book of woodcraft . lse two pounds of the bark, smashed in a gallon of water till only one pint of the fluid isleft. A tablespoonful of this three times a day is a goodremedy for bowel trouble. Chills and fever: Two pounds of white poplar or whitewillow bark, smashed up and soaked for twenty-four hoursin a gallon of water and boiled down to a pint, make a sureremedy for chills and fever. A dessertspoonful four timesa day is the proper dose. A tea made of spice bush twigs is a good old remedy forchills and fever. Make it strong, and sip it hot all day. Cold or fever cure: A decoction of the poplar bark orroots of flowering dogwood is a good substitute for quinine,as tonic and cold cure, bowel cure, and fever driver. Cough remedy: (That is, to soften and soothe a cough:)Slippery elm inner bark boiled, a pound to the gallon,boiled down to a pint, and given a teaspoonful every hour. Linseed is used the same way, and is all the better iflicorice or sugar of any kind be added. 3IO The Book of Woodcraft. Spice bush.
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