The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-09-10
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Tux DANDEuov has long been successful
and lavnrity household remedy Goo discusses oil
the liver whether eaten as q salad ia early
spring, or taken I'm the more medicine like
form Of deCoCrion or extract The decoctton
is made by taking of the bruised root two
ounces, waite two piutsi boiling down TO one
pint, and slrajuE The dose is a wiupulussruI
three times q day. The cxtrat is prepared by
adding pound Of the root, coarssIy cut up
TO one gallon Of water, and boiling down to
four pints, straiuiug while hot, and then
evapOratiug To such thick COuEisleuce that ID
will be hard when cold. As It loses Is powers
by keeping, il should be freshly prepared every
year. The dose Of the extract is from twenty
ty forty grains, given three times day, and
is most couy enieutly given in any Of the mint
waters.
The Yallouo Dock may 30 usefuIly added To
this, in the proportion Of an ounce 10 a pint OF
the deCOctiou recommended above. Il NAV be
given at any time when there Is not much ir-
ritatiOn about the stomach aud bowels The
juice Of the leaves is highly esteemed in Ger
many, lu gravel, itch, aud most diseases of the
skin. Cases Of dyspepsia have been much
benefited by winsgassrul Of the decocuop
taken every morning. When there Is a pecu o.
liar blueness about the whites Of the ewes. de-
noting, according TO some medical wrters,
disease Of the spleen, DnndelOu will be found
almost uniformly beneficial Taken in regu
lar doses, it keeps the bowels generally open,
induces q freea but not too CopiOus psrgDira
tiou, aud the ladies' will also f nd something in
the plant good for them, as the juice OF the
stalk will remove lreckles.
OPPRESSIVE BREArH.-Ruymond' Miscellany
prescribes the following Tor this complaint:
"Almost the only substance that should be
used at the toilette is the concentrated solu-
tion Of chloride Of soda. From six TO ten
drops OF II in a wine-g glassfull Of pure spring
water, taken Immediately after the operations
Of the morning are completed, will Instantly
sweeteu the breath, by disufecting the stom-
ach, which far from being injured, will be benz
ehttod by the medicine. { necessary, this
may be repeated in the middle Of the day. In
some cases, the odor arising from carious teeth
Is combined with that Of the stomach. II the
mou tn be well rnsed with a teaspoonful OF
the chloride in a tumber Of water, the bad
odor OF the teeth will be removed"
The FRUIT SEAsoN.-The berries the peacb-
es, the apples, and the plums-not only or
these, but Of all others, eat freely, ms often as
you eau get them. There are oIly two re-
strictiops.
They should not be eaten later than dinner
time.
They should be eaten while fresh, ripe, per.
feet, and In their natural raw state. without
milk, cream, sugar, spices, or any other liquid
within an hour afterwards.
Fruits are known TO be cooling and health
iuli the reason is their acidity, like that of
some other articles, stimu Iates the separation
Of bile from bIoodi this causes au "open" con-
ditiOn of the system, the attendant Of high
health an active body, aud a Joyous heart
Hence, if that acidity is corrected by sweets
OF any kind, In such proportion they fail Of
their natural good ofosts.-HaHS Journal 0
Health.