Hyssop tea is good for sudden colds, and disorders on the lungs. It
is necessary to be very careful about exposure after taking it; it is
peculiarly opening to the pores.

Tea made of colt's-foot and flax-seed, sweetened with honey, is a
cure for inveterate coughs. Consumptions have been prevented by it. It
should be drank when going to bed; though it does good to drink it at
any time. Hoarhound is useful in consumptive complaints.

Motherwort tea is very quieting to the nerves. Students, and people
troubled with wakefulness, find it useful.

Thoroughwort is excellent for dyspepsy, and every disorder occasioned
by indigestion. If the stomach be foul, it operates like a gentle
emetic.

Sweet-balm tea is cooling when one is in a feverish state.

Catnip, particularly the blossoms, made into tea, is good to prevent a
threatened fever. It produces a fine perspiration. It should be taken
in bed, and the patient kept warm.

Housekeepers should always dry leaves of the burdock and horseradish.
Burdocks warmed in vinegar, with the hard, stalky parts cut out, are
very soothing, applied to the feet; they produce a sweet and gentle
perspiration. Horseradish is more powerful. It is excellent in cases
of the ague, placed on the part affected. Warmed in vinegar, and
clapped.

Succory is a very valuable herb. The tea, sweetened with molasses, is