are made by pouring boiling water over one or two tea-spoonfuls of the
herbs, then, after covering well the cup or bowl, allowing it to steep
for several minutes by the side of the fire. The tea is sweetened to
taste. Camomile tea is quite invaluable for nervousness and
sleeplessness; calamus tea, for infants’ colic; cinnamon tea, for
hemorrhages; watermelon-seed tea, for strangury.
BONESET FOR A COUGH OR COLD (_Mrs. General Simpson_).
Pour one and one-half pints of boiling water on a ten-cent package of
boneset. Let it steep at the side of the fire for ten or fifteen
minutes, when strain it. Sweeten it with two and a half coffee-cupfuls
of loaf-sugar, then add one half-pint of Jamaica rum; bottle it. A child
should take a tea-spoonful before each meal; a grown person, a
sherry-glassful.