Curative Herbs
Sassafras
Drink tea to bring out spots and hasten recovery from measles. Use also for general health, body strength, and bathe in sassafras tea for backache. Root used as tea for fever, chills, and colds. Root tea made for malaria.
Tobacco
Chewed for gum pain. Smoke blown into ear for earache.
Slippery Elm
Use inner bark for sore throat, constipation, and gastric problems. External use for wounds, burns, and infections.
Collards/Cabbage
Use collard leaves for headaches, and as a poultice for boils. Use cabbage leaves for fever.
Cloves
Clove oil for toothaches and as an anti-inflammatory. Use to alleviate nausea and to stop vomiting. A mixture of cloves and whiskey as a cleanser after birth (bruised blood).
Jerusalem Root
Jerusalem root seed mixed with castor oil and turpentine for worms. In the springtime, Jerusalem oak seed in syrup given for nine mornings. Use seeds for worms and mix it with sugar to make candy for colds. Used as a spring tonic to build up children’s immunity.
High Blood Pressure
Galax/wild leek: boil galax root and drink the liquid or steep galax in vinegar and water. Spanish Moss: boil and drink the tea or wear in one’s shoes.
Colds
Red onion: colds in chest and shortness of breath, eat the onions raw.
Pine tar: as a decongestant, boil with snakeroot, life everlasting and lemon. Mix with onions and honey to make a cough syrup.
Rheumatism
Clay: red or blue clay used alone or in a poultice for rheumatism and sprains
Bittersweet/bitter weeds: Combine with grease to cure rheumatism.
Potato carried in pocket.
Turpentine
Used for almost any ailment. Apply to sores and cuts. Sore throats. Soak for snake bite. Put on tooth for ache or teething pain. Take 15 drops for indigestion.
Honey
Mix with turpentine and onions to make syrup for colds. Mix with pine tree bark and onions to make cough syrup. Mix with mullein and alum to make syrup for colds. Use for common ailments and spring malaria.
Catnip
Leaves used for infant colic and teething. Catnip tea for fevers.
A good website for more Medicinal Herbs:
A Guide to Common Medicinal Herbs
Sassafras
Drink tea to bring out spots and hasten recovery from measles. Use also for general health, body strength, and bathe in sassafras tea for backache. Root used as tea for fever, chills, and colds. Root tea made for malaria.
Tobacco
Chewed for gum pain. Smoke blown into ear for earache.
Slippery Elm
Use inner bark for sore throat, constipation, and gastric problems. External use for wounds, burns, and infections.
Collards/Cabbage
Use collard leaves for headaches, and as a poultice for boils. Use cabbage leaves for fever.
Cloves
Clove oil for toothaches and as an anti-inflammatory. Use to alleviate nausea and to stop vomiting. A mixture of cloves and whiskey as a cleanser after birth (bruised blood).
Jerusalem Root
Jerusalem root seed mixed with castor oil and turpentine for worms. In the springtime, Jerusalem oak seed in syrup given for nine mornings. Use seeds for worms and mix it with sugar to make candy for colds. Used as a spring tonic to build up children’s immunity.
High Blood Pressure
Galax/wild leek: boil galax root and drink the liquid or steep galax in vinegar and water. Spanish Moss: boil and drink the tea or wear in one’s shoes.
Colds
Red onion: colds in chest and shortness of breath, eat the onions raw.
Pine tar: as a decongestant, boil with snakeroot, life everlasting and lemon. Mix with onions and honey to make a cough syrup.
Rheumatism
Clay: red or blue clay used alone or in a poultice for rheumatism and sprains
Bittersweet/bitter weeds: Combine with grease to cure rheumatism.
Potato carried in pocket.
Turpentine
Used for almost any ailment. Apply to sores and cuts. Sore throats. Soak for snake bite. Put on tooth for ache or teething pain. Take 15 drops for indigestion.
Honey
Mix with turpentine and onions to make syrup for colds. Mix with pine tree bark and onions to make cough syrup. Mix with mullein and alum to make syrup for colds. Use for common ailments and spring malaria.
Catnip
Leaves used for infant colic and teething. Catnip tea for fevers.
A good website for more Medicinal Herbs:
A Guide to Common Medicinal Herbs