Elixir recipe

(for colds, fevers, flu, colic, cramps, stomach pains)

4 ounces bayberry
2 ounces ginger
1 ounce white pine
1/8 ounce cloves
1/8 ounce capsicum

Mix all and pass through a fine sieve several times. Use one teaspoon, more or less, as the case requires, in a cup of hot water. Allow the herbs to stand so they will settle, then drink off the clear liquid, leaving the settlings.