Summary
Found 15 remedies including Hot Lemonade for Colds, Burdock, Bay, Catnip, Anise. documented in historical texts from 1789-1922. (11 confirmed in multiple sources).
Alum
High Confidence
For: Cold
Sometimes cold water may be
used, as in the case of a few bitters, such as Calumba,
Quassia, &c
Found in 4 sources
Sometimes cold water may be
used, as in the case of a few bitters, such as Calumba,
Quassia, &c
Potter'S Cyclopaedia Of Botanical Drugs And Preparations 1915
Page 355
1915
If there is blood in the discharge, use cold vaginal injections,
with alum and opium in them, or the latter with gallic acid,
about a dram of cach to ...
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 286
1892
ny cold distemper in
their bowels, and are troubled with the hardness of the
Spleen, for all which purposes both the powder, called
iacaluminthee, and...
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
1880
Alum, in doses of three
;
great fatigue
;
constant use
exposure to cold
Our Family Physician
1885
Camphor
High Confidence
For: Cold
Ingredients: Dose
— May be given for the same symptoms as Opiuin, but
when there is no delirium, Camphor and Coffea in alternate doses
if the patient is sinking rapidly, with cold limbs, and delirium ; and
particularly if he is covered with cold perspiration
Found in 3 sources
— May be given for the same symptoms as Opiuin, but
when there is no delirium, Camphor and Coffea in alternate doses
if the patient is sinking rapidly...
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 230
1885
Camphor Bromide, 1 x, at bed-time, to prevent the dreams leading
to such a result, The organs should be bathed with cold water at bed-
time, nightly
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 392
1892
Cold, as the white and red camphorate,
Galen's refrlngerant, poplars, rofate, and violets
Culpepper's English Physician
1789
Cayenne
High Confidence
For: Cold
Ingredients: Powder
Apply cold water freely to the head and face, and place the feet
and legs in warm water, to which has been added some powdered
Mustard or Cayenne
Found in 4 sources
Apply cold water freely to the head and face, and place the feet
and legs in warm water, to which has been added some powdered
Mustard or Cayenne
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 117
1885
Persons exposed any length of time to
cold and damp may ward off disease by taking pills
made of pure Cayenne, and a cold may generally be
removed by ...
Potter'S Cyclopaedia Of Botanical Drugs And Preparations 1915
Page 103
1915
To do this apply cold water to the head, face,
and neck, and place the feet in warm water to which has been
addedsome powdered mustard or Cayenne
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 114
1892
To do this apply cold water to the head, face,
and neck, and place the feet in warm water to which has been
added some powdered mustard or Cayenne
The Cottage Physician 1892
1892
Aloe
Medium
For: Cold
Ingredients: Tea
Take of aloetic wine, - - - - - ounces 2}
compound spirit of ammonia: ounce }
Take a tea-spoonfull occasionally in some cold water in very
torpid habits
Found in 2 sources
Take of aloetic wine, - - - - - ounces 2}
compound spirit of ammonia: ounce }
Take a tea-spoonfull occasionally in some cold water in very
torpid habi...
A New Family Herbal
Page 367
1810
Attempts to promote the discharge in any case must not be
prolonged much beyond the menstrual periods, between which
all possible means must be taken ...
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 285
1892
Angelica
Medium
For: Ague, Cold, Plague, Ulcer
Ingredients: Juice
07
&ft«r-birth ; procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth
wind the juice is good to heal the ulcers of the head and
face the candied roots hereof are held as effectual as angelica to pi-eserve from infection in the time of a plague,
and to warm and comfort a cold weak stomach
Found in 2 sources
07
&ft«r-birth ; procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth
wind the juice is good to heal the ulcers of the head and
face the candied roots hereof...
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
1880
The
fame, drunk with wine, is a prefervative from the plague j it provoketh women's
courfes, and expelleth the after-birth, procureth an appetite to m...
Culpepper's English Physician
1789
Arnica
Medium
For: Cold
In fractures the bandage may be saturated from time to time,
with arnica lotion, or cold water
Found in 2 sources
In fractures the bandage may be saturated from time to time,
with arnica lotion, or cold water
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 506
1885
(124)—Keep the patient quiet ;
apply cold cloths to the head and give Arnica, 3 x, every hour or two,
for a few days
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 378
1892
Boneset
Medium
For: Cold, Cough
Ingredients: Tea
—Promote a
free perspiration, by taking every night warm hoarhound or
boneset tea, which may be drank cold during the day; if the
cough is troublesome, take a tea made of slippery-elm bark, or
flaxseed
Found in 2 sources
—Promote a
free perspiration, by taking every night warm hoarhound or
boneset tea, which may be drank cold during the day; if the
cough is troublesome...
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 129
1892
hoarhound or
—
boneset tea, which may be drank cold during the day; if the
cough is troublesome, take a tea made of slippery-elm bark, or
fl,axseed
The Cottage Physician 1892
1892
Catnip
Medium
For: Cold
Ingredients: Tea
Tn the cold stage let the patient drink freely of warm teas of
Catnip, Pennyroyal, Boneset, Virginia Snake Root, or weak Red
Pepper tea
Found in 2 sources
Tn the cold stage let the patient drink freely of warm teas of
Catnip, Pennyroyal, Boneset, Virginia Snake Root, or weak Red
Pepper tea
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 94
1885
In the cold stage let the patient drink freely of warm teas of
Catnip, Pennyroyal, Boneset, Virginia Snake Root, or weak Red
Popper tea
Our Family Physician
1885
Cohosh
Medium
For: Cold, Boil
Ingredients: Powder, Mixture
Black Cohosh Root, - 2 cio A B
Geranium Root, - - c > J 4 «
Cherrytree Bark, - : - ‘ - 4 «&
Powder the whole, and mix, then take about half an ounce of
the mixture, and pour on it a pint of boiling water, and when cold,
drink the whole, and repeat it several times during the day
Found in 2 sources
Black Cohosh Root, - 2 cio A B
Geranium Root, - - c > J 4 «
Cherrytree Bark, - : - ‘ - 4 «&
Powder the whole, and mix, then take about half an ounce ...
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 337
1885
—Yellow dock root,
dandelion root, sarsaparilla, and winter green, of each two ounces; blue cohosh,
one ounce; water, four pints, boil down to three p...
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 458
1892
Copper
Medium
For: Cold
‘
If possessed of a thermometer, observe the following rules:
Immediately that the water is turned from the copper into the
mash-vat, immerge the instrument for about the space of one
winute; the state of the quicksilver in the tube will then be
easily discerned; if found to be too hot, apply cold
Found in 2 sources
‘
If possessed of a thermometer, observe the following rules:
Immediately that the water is turned from the copper into the
mash-vat, immerge the ins...
A New Family Herbal
Page 84
1810
you make
If
drink in very cold Weather, it will be
requisite to treat the Liquor in a Copper, something more
this
N
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178
A GAR...
A Garden of Herbs
1922
Dandelion
Medium
For: Cold
Ingredients: Tea
It should be allowed to drink freely of cold tea of cherry tree
bark, or dandelion root
Found in 2 sources
It should be allowed to drink freely of cold tea of cherry tree
bark, or dandelion root
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 335
1885
It should be allowed to drink freely of cold tea of cherry tree
bark, or dandelion root
Our Family Physician
1885
Hot Lemonade for Colds
Found
For: Common cold, fever
Ingredients: Lemons, hot water, sugar
Soak feet in hot mustard water, go to bed, sweating.
Found in 1 source
As soon as possible after becoming aware of catching a bad cold, soak the feet in hot mustard water, go to bed, drink hot composition tea, hot lemonad...
The Cottage Physician (1892)
Page 201
1892
Historical Remedy
Found
For: development of the second stage; cold, livid face and extremeties, circulation at a low ebb, pulse weak, wants air and constant fanning, yet sur- face cold and clammy in collapse
symptoms of collapse. Ars. would seem to be indicated in many cases. Belladonna
In some cases where there is brain involvement, with rage and excitement. Face flushed, pupils dilated, sleepy but canno...
Found in 1 source
symptoms of collapse. Ars. would seem to be indicated in many cases. Belladonna
In some cases where there is brain involvement, with rage and exciteme...
A Practical Guide to Homeopathic Treatment
Alum
Found
For: Bleeding, Cold
Ingredients: Solution
When the bleeding is considerable, injections of cold water or a
weak solution of Alum may be used
Found in 1 source
When the bleeding is considerable, injections of cold water or a
weak solution of Alum may be used
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 322
1885
Alum
Found
For: Cold, Cramp, Palsy, Sore, Boil
Ingredients: Bath, Gargle, Wash
Gargles are
made with Sage, rosemary, honeysuckles, and plantain,
boiled in wine or water, with some honey or alum added,
to wash sore mouths and throata
Sage is boiled with
other hot and comforting herbs, to bathe the body and the
legs in the summer-time, especially to warm cold joints or
sinews, t
Found in 1 source
Gargles are
made with Sage, rosemary, honeysuckles, and plantain,
boiled in wine or water, with some honey or alum added,
to wash sore mouths and thro...
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
1880
Anise
Found
For: Cold
Take six pounds
and bruise them small, then put to them
of black cherries
the tops of rosemary, sweet marjoram, spearmint, angelica,
balm, marigold flowers, of each a handful, dried violets an
ounce, aniseeds and sweet fennell seeds, of each half an ounce
bruised
cut the herbs small, mix them toge
Found in 1 source
Take six pounds
and bruise them small, then put to them
of black cherries
the tops of rosemary, sweet marjoram, spearmint, angelica,
balm, marigold ...
A Garden of Herbs
1922
Arnica
Found
For: Cold, Skin
Ingredients: Tincture, Bath
Frequent bathing in cold water, cither pure, or with a
few drops of Arnica tincture, or Brandy and cold water will some-
times obviate this tenderness and strengthen the skin; this should
be used after each time the child has sucked
Found in 1 source
Frequent bathing in cold water, cither pure, or with a
few drops of Arnica tincture, or Brandy and cold water will some-
times obviate this tenderness...
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 412
1885
Arnica
Found
For: Cold, Inflammation
To keep
down inflammation and swelling, apply cloths wet with cold water,
or cold Arnica lotion, for several days
Found in 1 source
To keep
down inflammation and swelling, apply cloths wet with cold water,
or cold Arnica lotion, for several days
Our Family Physician (1885)
Page 508
1885
Bay
Found
For: Cold
They are fomewhat cold and drying, and are more ufed
for food, both for man and beaft, than for phyfic ; yet, being quilted in a barr wich
bay fait, made hot
in a
frying-pan, and applied as warm as can be endured, they
eafe pains and flitches in the fidcj and the cholic in the belly
Found in 1 source
They are fomewhat cold and drying, and are more ufed
for food, both for man and beaft, than for phyfic ; yet, being quilted in a barr wich
bay fait, ...
Culpepper's English Physician
1789
Burdock
Found
For: Cold
forrel
being
All of them have a kind of cooling (but not alike) drying quality, the
mod cold; and the bloodworts moft drying: of the burdock I have
The feed of moft of the kinds, whether of the garden or
fpoken already by itfelf
Found in 1 source
forrel
being
All of them have a kind of cooling (but not alike) drying quality, the
mod cold; and the bloodworts moft drying: of the burdock I have...
Culpepper's English Physician
1789