Swaim’s Vermifuge

Ingredients

• Worm seed, two ounces
• valerian, one ounce and a half
• rhubarb, one ounce and a half
• pink root, one ounce and a half
• white agaric, one ounce and a half
• senna, one ounce and a half
• sufficient water to yield three quarts of decoction
• ten drops of the oil of tansy
• forty-five drops of the oil of cloves
• dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit

Method

1. 1

   Boil the worm seed, valerian, rhubarb, pink root, white agaric, and senna in sufficient water to yield three quarts of decoction.

2. 2

   Now add the oil of tansy and oil of cloves dissolved in rectified spirit.

3. 3

   Dose: one tablespoonful at night.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 339. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SWAIM’S VERMIFUGE. Worm seed, two ounces; valerian, rhubarb, pink root, white agaric, senna, of each one ounce and a half. Boil in sufiBcient water to yield three quarts of decoction. Now add to it ten drops of the oil of tansy and forty- five drops of the oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit

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