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This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
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CASTOR OIL
-Mildly aperient. Used in colic and in those cases of constipation which will not bear drastic purgatives; also for mixing with gruel for the ordinary enema. Dose: A teaspoonful to 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls; an ounce is the proper quantity for mixing with gruel to make an enema.