Leave out your sugar and use instead of milk good cream
in your coffee. It won't sour on your stomach, neither
will you suffer from ill effects.
205
SPRING TIME.
MARCH.
Whenever using a purgative it should be remembered
that after a thoro passage we should immediately take
one-fourth of the same purgative on an empty stomach.
Take purgatives with the juice of one or more lemons for
quick effects. For several mornings thereafter take at the
same corresponding hour one glass of water on an empty
stomach. Should the water be hard, stir into the same a
pinch of borax or saleratus. In children sweetened water
will prove very effective.
St. John's bread or locust, used in quantities of one ounce
a day in addition to two ounces of prunes, daily for six
weeks, will cure an ordinary case of constipation.
The whites of eggs beaten up, mixed with cream and
afterward with the juice of lemon, is one of the finest rem-
edies in any kind of troubles where nourishment and medi-
icine is to be combined with immediate results for good.
Sassafras, "nibbled at" or made into a tea by boiling it
over a slow fire for fifteen minutes, then taken hot two or
three times a day for ten days, will act purifying upon the
system. It is necessary that the food consists largely
of flour soups, rivelet soups, macaroni soups, rice with
cream, barley with butter, buttermilk soup, wholesome
bread. Eatables should be prepared fresh and none of
the left-over things should be used. Rhubarb and dan-
delion, either as a raw salad or else a vegetable dish,
will be found very wholesome; of value to scrofulous
and rheumatic people.
March is a good fasting season there where the weather
is not too severe and where the season gradually becomes
warmer. On damp, wet, rainy days, while fasting, make
it a point to bathe hot before retiring to bed and drink a
seasonable herb tea, always inducing peristaltic movements,
even if you have to resort to the internal bath, in which
case it is well to use a tablespoonful of warm olive oil as
an after-injection into the rectum.
206
APRIL.
Should alvine calls be irregular, use syrups made of figs
and prunes. Such a syrup is best made in white syrup in
which rain water is used. Prepare as follows: Take two
cupfuls of rain water, add three tablespoonfuls of confec-
tioners' or homeopathic cane sugar. Allow to boil slowly,
stirring continuously and until stringy. Now drop into
this syrup five figs and ten prunes✪ Syrup of Figs and Prunes that have been cut into
small pieces with scissors. Allow to boil slowly for thirtv
minutes or more, gradually adding boiling rain water to it
to keep the two cupfuls. Use freely while warm — from one
to three tablespoonfuls, and one teaspoonful three times a
day thereafter. Elderly people may use rectal or colon
washes daily for ten nights to keep up and regain regu-
larity, particularly while fasting. Young people should not
use the syringe. It is better to refrain from eating entirely ;
to take baths and rubs and a few drops of oil Euphorbia
to get a thoro cleansing.
All sorts of roots, such as orris, ginger, sarsaparilla,
sassafras, etc., will prove best when ground and sprinkled
over foods.
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Leave out your sugar and use instead of milk good cream in your coffee. It won't sour on your stomach, neither will you suffer from ill effects.
SPRING TIME.
MARCH.
Whenever using a purgative it should be remembered that after a thoro passage we should immediately take one-fourth of the same purgative on an empty stomach. Take purgatives with the juice of one or more lemons for quick effects. For several mornings thereafter take at the same corresponding hour one glass of water on an empty stomach. Should the water be hard, stir into the same a pinch of borax or saleratus. In children sweetened water will prove very effective.
St. John's bread or locust, used in quantities of one ounce a day in addition to two ounces of prunes, daily for six weeks, will cure an ordinary case of constipation.
The whites of eggs beaten up, mixed with cream and afterward with the juice of lemon, is one of the finest remedies in any kind of troubles where nourishment and medicine is to be combined with immediate results for good.
Sassafras, "nibbled at" or made into a tea by boiling it over a slow fire for fifteen minutes, then taken hot two or three times a day for ten days, will act purifying upon the system. It is necessary that the food consists largely of flour soups, rivelet soups, macaroni soups, rice with cream, barley with butter, buttermilk soup, wholesome bread. Eatables should be prepared fresh and none of the left-over things should be used. Rhubarb and dandelion, either as a raw salad or else a vegetable dish, will be found very wholesome; of value to scrofulous and rheumatic people.
March is a good fasting season there where the weather is not too severe and where the season gradually becomes warmer. On damp, wet, rainy days, while fasting, make it a point to bathe hot before retiring to bed and drink a seasonable herb tea, always inducing peristaltic movements, even if you have to resort to the internal bath, in which case it is well to use a tablespoonful of warm olive oil as an after-injection into the rectum.
APRIL.
Should alvine calls be irregular, use syrups made of figs and prunes. Such a syrup is best made in white syrup in which rain water is used. Prepare as follows: Take two cupfuls of rain water, add three tablespoonfuls of confectioners' or homeopathic cane sugar. Allow to boil slowly, stirring continuously and until stringy. Now drop into this syrup five figs and ten prunes that have been cut into small pieces with scissors. Allow to boil slowly for thirtv minutes or more, gradually adding boiling rain water to it to keep the two cupfuls. Use freely while warm — from one to three tablespoonfuls, and one teaspoonful three times a day thereafter. Elderly people may use rectal or colon washes daily for ten nights to keep up and regain regularity, particularly while fasting. Young people should not use the syringe. It is better to refrain from eating entirely ; to take baths and rubs and a few drops of oil Euphorbia to get a thoro cleansing.
All sorts of roots, such as orris, ginger, sarsaparilla, sassafras, etc., will prove best when ground and sprinkled over foods.
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