Showing posts with label Headache remedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Headache remedy. Show all posts

Medicines for the Head. For the Rheume in the Head

Take and seeth Pimpernell in Wine, and drink it in the Evening hot, and in the morning cold; this will help thee: Or take and stew Onions in Water, in a close pot, and bath thy Head, thy mouth, and thy nose therewith, and it will help thee.

Medicines for the Head. To purge the Head

Take the juice of Primrose, and milk of a cow, and with a quill blow it into thy nostrills, and this will purge the head.

Medicines for the Head. For pain in the Head

Take Rue, Heyhoad, Camomell flowers, Betany, Vervain, Mints, Hillwort, red Fennell, Wormwood and Sothernwood, of each a handfull, and wash them, and shred them small, and seeth them in water, and mingle the herbs with wheat bran, and make a plaister and lay it on thy mold as hot as thou canst suffer it, and bind it on with a Kerchief, and thou shalt be whole in short space.