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
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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
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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
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To comfort the braine smel to camomill, eate sage
wash measurably, sleep reasonably, delight to heare melody
and singing
Found in 1 source
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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