For Health Wash your hands with lye soap before treating the ill person. Horehound, boiled into a syrup, for coughs. Tea of wild onions and lobelia to soothe. Beebalm for a restful sleep. Vinegar elixirs stop nosebleeds. Eat raw garlic every day and a cup of hot water with lemon and honey. For asthma, drink chamomile tea. For chills, gingerroot tea. Licorice root gathered from the riverside for chest pain. Dragon’s blood from tree bark and berries of the Dracaena draco, the red resin tree from Morocco and the Canary Islands that can only be found in one market in London and can cure nearly any
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