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Results for "sleep" 20 findings
Summary

Found 15 remedies including Lobelia, Mercury, Lead, Henbane, Nutmeg. documented in historical texts from 1810-1922. (4 confirmed in multiple sources).

Hops High Confidence
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Tea, Pill
When there is want of sleep, a pillow of hops laid under the patient’s head, or a strong tea of hops, will be beneficial
Found in 3 sources
When there is want of sleep, a pillow of hops laid under the patient’s head, or a strong tea of hops, will be beneficial
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 74 1885
Hypnotics relieve pain by producing sleep, as hops, etc
The Cottage Physician (1892) Page 529 1892
When there is want of sleep, a pillow of hops laid under the patient's head, or In the latter stage of this a strong tea of hops, will be beneficial
Our Family Physician 1885
Ipecac Medium
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Powder
For restlessness, or want of sleep, from eight to ten grains of com- pound powder of ipecac and opium may be given
Found in 2 sources
For restlessness, or want of sleep, from eight to ten grains of com- pound powder of ipecac and opium may be given
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 237 1885
Ifthe patient is troubled with sleepless- ness, give eight to ten grains of compound powder of ipecac and opium
The Cottage Physician (1892) Page 202 1892
Sage Medium
For: Cough, Fever, Sore, Sleep, Skin
—Rumex causes nausea; watery brown move- ments of the bowels, urging liquid passages; urging, copious urination; dry, spasmodic, irritating cough; sore, burning, aching, and sticking pains in the chest; increased heart's action; restlessness; itching of the skin; sleeplessness; chills, fever, and pe
Found in 2 sources
—Rumex causes nausea; watery brown move- ments of the bowels, urging liquid passages; urging, copious urination; dry, spasmodic, irritating cough; sor...
American Medicinal Plants Vol 2 (1887) Page 206 1887
—Rumex causes nausea; watery brown move- ments of the bowels, urging liquid passages; urging, copious urination; dry, spasmodic, irritating cough; sor...
American Medicinal Plants Vol 2 Page 206 1887
Sorrel Medium
For: Sleep
The minor symptoms of disinclination to work, sleepiness after dinner, general sliftless- etc,, of Verbascum arose also in my experimentation with the Sheep sorrel ( Oxalis stricta, Linn
Found in 2 sources
The minor symptoms of disinclination to work, sleepiness after dinner, general sliftless- etc,, of Verbascum arose also in my experimentation with the...
American Medicinal Plants Vol 2 (1887) Page 13 1887
The minor symptoms of disinclination to work, sleepiness after dinner, general sliftless- etc,, of Verbascum arose also in my experimentation with the...
American Medicinal Plants Vol 2 Page 13 1887
Camphor Found
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Dose
This shows clearly enough the power of camphor in mania ; “ and I have only to add, that though in several, other instances it has not made a cure, it has not in any instance of a moderate dose, that is, not exceeding half a drachm, occasioned any dis- order in the system; and in several cases it ha
Found in 1 source
This shows clearly enough the power of camphor in mania ; “ and I have only to add, that though in several, other instances it has not made a cure, it...
A New Family Herbal Page 400 1810
Dropsy Found
For: Dropsy, Sleep
served to allay the heat, thirst, headach, and delirium, to induce sweat and sleep, to cure the disease with less bark, and without leaving abdominal obstructions or dropsy
Found in 1 source
served to allay the heat, thirst, headach, and delirium, to induce sweat and sleep, to cure the disease with less bark, and without leaving abdominal ...
A New Family Herbal Page 541 1810
Dropsy Found
For: Cold, Dropsy, Vomit, Sleep
If after the disease the child shows symptoms of dropsy of the brain (head hot, extremities cold, sleeps with eyes half open, vomits on moving), give Bryonia © ClarkWardOrange
Found in 1 source
If after the disease the child shows symptoms of dropsy of the brain (head hot, extremities cold, sleeps with eyes half open, vomits on moving), give ...
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 41 1885
Henbane Found
For: Vertigo, Sleep, Eruption
Ingredients: Tea, Dose
580, Henbane, in a moderate dose, often produces sweat, and sometimes an eruption of pustglcs, and generally sound sleep, succeeded by serenity of mind and recruited vigour of the body 3 but, like the other narcotics, instead of these it sometimes gives rise to vertigo, headach, and general uneasin
Found in 1 source
580, Henbane, in a moderate dose, often produces sweat, and sometimes an eruption of pustglcs, and generally sound sleep, succeeded by serenity of mi...
A New Family Herbal Page 198 1810
Hops Found
For: Headache, Sleep
Ingredients: Poultice, Tea
If the headache is severe, warm poultices of hops mixed with vinegar should be applicd, and if the patient is restless and unable to sleep, he may drink freely of hop tea
Found in 1 source
If the headache is severe, warm poultices of hops mixed with vinegar should be applicd, and if the patient is restless and unable to sleep, he may dri...
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 84 1885
Hops Found
For: Nervous, Sleep
Ingredients: Pill
A pillow filled with Hops is considered good for sleeplessness and nervous irritation
Found in 1 source
A pillow filled with Hops is considered good for sleeplessness and nervous irritation
Potter'S Cyclopaedia Of Botanical Drugs And Preparations 1915 Page 176 1915
Hyssop Found
For: Cough, Sleep
Ingredients: Decoction
The decoction of the herb taken in honey digests phlegm, The decoction of the and with hyssop helps the coughs herb and wild succory with wine, helps the wind colic and hardness of the spleen, it procures rest and sleep, hinders Tenery, cools heat, purges the stomach, increases blood, Outwardly and
Found in 1 source
The decoction of the herb taken in honey digests phlegm, The decoction of the and with hyssop helps the coughs herb and wild succory with wine, helps ...
Culpeper's Complete Herbal 1880
Lead Found
For: Apoplexy, Sleep
—Apoplexy, mania, lead colic, hernia, sleeplessness
Found in 1 source
—Apoplexy, mania, lead colic, hernia, sleeplessness
The Cottage Physician (1892) Page 541 1892
Lobelia Found
For: Sleep
If nothing will induce him to sleep, give Arsenic and Lobelia in alternation
Found in 1 source
If nothing will induce him to sleep, give Arsenic and Lobelia in alternation
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 470 1885
Mercury Found
For: Ulcer, Sleep
— ‘This has been proved a very useful remedy when Mercury and Belladonna have been used without effect, and espe- cially when the following symptoms are present: Swelling and redness with a feeling of rawness of the tonsils and palate, dryness of the throat, constant disposition to swallow, sensatio
Found in 1 source
— ‘This has been proved a very useful remedy when Mercury and Belladonna have been used without effect, and espe- cially when the following symptoms a...
Our Family Physician (1885) Page 203 1885
Nutmeg Found
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Tea
The manner of preparing it is thus Cut fine fo ir ounces of the leaves, teat them in a mortar, with six ounces of loaf sugar, till the whole is like a paste ; three times a day take a piece of this about the it is pleasant, and very effectual ; and size of a nutmeg particular, it is a composer, and
Found in 1 source
The manner of preparing it is thus Cut fine fo ir ounces of the leaves, teat them in a mortar, with six ounces of loaf sugar, till the whole is like a...
Culpeper's Complete Herbal 1880
Poppy Found
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Syrup, Powder, Dose
This root is aflodyue and soporific; hence our immortal bard makes Othello say, after his destruction of Desdemona, ‘Not poppy nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine me to that sweet sleep Which I had yesterday, By this it appears it was formerly given in the f
Found in 1 source
This root is aflodyue and soporific; hence our immortal bard makes Othello say, after his destruction of Desdemona, ‘Not poppy nor mandragora, Nor al...
A New Family Herbal Page 189 1810
Rue Found
For: Sleep
), which is said by the natives (and corroborated by others) to cause the death of any who sleep beneath its shades this is especially true of individuals of plethoric small, regular, often ; ; ; ; ; ; : ; ; habit
Found in 1 source
), which is said by the natives (and corroborated by others) to cause the death of any who sleep beneath its shades this is especially true of individ...
American Medicinal Plants Vol
Rue Found
For: Rheumatism, Sleep
Its first trial was given a patient suffering as follows She had had rheumatism for about ten years never became I believe it to be a true specific for certain : — Sometimes she was nearly relieved from it again lost much rest and sleep from it
Found in 1 source
Its first trial was given a patient suffering as follows She had had rheumatism for about ten years never became I believe it to be a true specific fo...
New Old And Forgotten Remedies
Sage Found
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Wash
" To comfort the braine smel to camomill, eate sage wash measurably, sleep reasonably, delight to heare melody and singing
Found in 1 source
" To comfort the braine smel to camomill, eate sage wash measurably, sleep reasonably, delight to heare melody and singing
A Garden of Herbs 1922
Senna Found
For: Sleep
Ingredients: Tincture
Hamilton such sudden and powerful sleep that the glass from which a drachm of the tincture had been taken remained for twelve hours in his hand;* the Alexandrian Senna, the well-known anthelmintic, consisting of the dried leaves of Cassia obovata, Coll
Found in 1 source
Hamilton such sudden and powerful sleep that the glass from which a drachm of the tincture had been taken remained for twelve hours in his hand;* the ...
American Medicinal Plants Vol