Demulcents Flashcards

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Greatest builder of brain, bone, and flesh. Helps diabetes, tuberculosis, weak heart, shortness of breath. Helps internal ulcers, cancers, acne, skin diseases, cough. Gallstones.

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Sweet Almond

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Treats mouth & stomach ulcers, hemorrhoids, thrush, croup, dysentery, vaginitis, scarlet &a typhoid fever, cardiac cyanosis, blood poisoning. Laxative.

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Quince

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Roots Heals inward hurt, bruises, broken bones, torn ligaments, wounds, ulcers of lungs, and frees phlegm.
Outwardly, cures fresh wounds and cuts, ruptures, and broken noses.
Eases painful joints, and heals gangrene.
Heals spitting up blood from lungs.

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Comfrey

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Good for whatever ails you. Keeps skin healthy, feeds brain, bones, liver, and relieves catarrh.
Heals varicose veins, swollen joints, kidney or bladder affection, decaying teeth, halitosis, sour stomachF arthritis, prolapsed uterus, appendicitis, enlarged heart, tonsillitis. Cold hands and feet, epilepsy.

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Irish Moss (Chondrus)

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Asthma, bronchitis, cough, whooping cough, lung trouble, dyspnea, cystitis, poison ivy, burns, spasm, tuberculosis. Gastritis.

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Slippery Elm Bark

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Helps obesity, reduces fatty acids and adipose tissue, and rids system of useless water.
Helps bad sprains, osteomyelitis, joints - combined with comfrey and garlic.

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Bladder Wrack

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Poultice helps enlarged glands, joints, swellings, boils, carbuncles, pneumonia, pleurisy, sprains, bruises, inflammation.
Amazing brain food, heart tonic, pus-destroyer, muscle food, laxative.
Soothes sunburn, chapped hands, good for babies, hives, stings, and removed my dark spots from the skin.

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Flaxseed

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Good for respiratory organs, tuberculosis, coughs, bronchitis, inner and outer ear inflammation.

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Great Mullien

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Helps skin diseases (eczema, herpes, leprosy, pityriasis, psoriasis, lichen, prurigo), encrusted lupus, chapped skin, fissures of anus and nipple, wounds, boils, carbuncles, abscesses, itching and dryness of mouth.
Internally helps diabetes, typhoid fever, dysentery, hemorrhoids, leucorrhea, constipation. Worms, parasites, hard arteries, enlarged prostate.
Pulls poisons out of the system that are lodged.

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Glycerine

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High in calcium and magnesium, nourishes delicate stomachs.

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Mimosa Gum

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Malnutrition, weak digestion

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Marsh Mallow

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