Remedies, Cures and Old Time Practice

St. Clair County Democrat
31 March 1910

Simple Health Drinks

The Sulphur and Molasses Season Has Come Again.
Many letters from correspondents on the subject recall the fact that the sulphur and molasses season has come again and that those who believe in this old blood remedy want to take it.
For this tonic the formula consists of a paste of sulphur and molasses, cream of tartar to the amount of a pinch being added to each teaspoonful of the mixture. The dose from time immemorial has been a teaspoonful every morning for three days, then three days are omitted, and another three doses on three more consecutive days are taken. Then comes another halting space for three days and a final dose the next three, making nine in all. By that time the faithful patient is usually quite willing to wait until another season before taking more. There will be no harm in repeating the routine, however.
Spearmint tea is a drink which our grandmothers believed in as being excellent for the blood, and they made it by steeping two tablespoonfuls of the dried grass in three pints of water. They regarded it as both nourishing and purifying to the blood and drank it at any time through the day.
This is pre-eminently the time when fresh green vegetables should be eaten, even if it is necessary to give up some other article of diet for them. The system craves just the properties they contain, and the blood and complexion will be much better if spinach, greens of any other kind, string beans and the like are eaten once and preferably twice a day. Fresh salads should be considered a daily necessity. Lettuce, with oil and vinegar, is wholesome, but not more than other fresh leaves. Apples, both baked and raw, will be effective as well as tomatoes, the system requiring acid to an unusual degree for several months now.