You will wean it away. Lay hot pancakes on sore breasts as a cure. Let a mother sprinkle some of her milk over a flame or fire and her breasts will dry up. Nurse a baby for the last time beneath an elder bush and it will not cry for breast milk again. One of the best times to wean a baby is on the decline of the moon.
Poultice breasts with crushed parsley leaves to prevent caking.
Put bluing on the mother's breasts to wean a child. Rub some of the afterbirth over the mother's nipples and she will not have sore breasts. The mother who eats boiled cabbage while nursing a baby will give it colic. To dry up breasts, squirt some of the milk on a hot stove each morning for nine days. To wean a baby, place stove soot on the mother's breasts.