Sedative Lotion

Ingredients

• half a pound of fresh hemlock-leaves
• half a dozen poppy heads
• three pints of water

Method

1. 1

   Boil the fresh hemlock leaves or poppy heads in water until reduced to a pint and a half.

2. 2

   Use this lotion by soaking lint or linen and applying it to the surface.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 198. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sedative Lotions. — When the lotion is intended to act more by its sedative than by its evaporating effects, it will suffice to lay lint or linen soaked in it upon the surface, and cover it with oil silk or guttapercha tissue. Spongio-piline is a convenient medium for the application of sedative or other than evaporative lotions. Care, however, must be taken that it is not put on too wet, or the lotion will drain out and wet the clothing or bedding. A sedative lotion is made by boiling half MEDICINAL. 283 a pound of fresh hemlock-leaves, or iialf a dozen poppy heads, in three pints of water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.