[Sca-cooks] Horse Dung and Pregnancy

[Daniel And elizabeth phelps]

The Perfumed Garden as translated by Burton has some positively marvelous recipes 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/garden/index.htm

The chapter titled "Concerning the Causes of Enjoyment in the Act of Generation" has a number of interesting recipes.  This one would appear easily fixed and not particularly toxic:

Green peas, boiled carefully with onions, and powdered with cinnamon, ginger and cardamoms, well pounded, create for the consumer considerable amorous passion and strength in coitus.

The chapter titled "Description of the Uterus of Sterile Women, and Treatment of the Same" suggests some rather interesting rubs and elixers.

The chapter titled "Undoing of Aiguillettes (Impotence for a Time)" has interesting recipes.  Here is one:

To cure the tying of aiguillettes you must take galanga, cinnamon from Mecca, cloves, Indian cachou, nutmeg, Indian cubebs, sparrowwort, cinnamon, Persian pepper, Indian thistle, cardamoms, pyrether, laurel seed, and gilly flowers. All these ingredients must be pounded together carefully, and one drinks of it as much as one can, morning and night, in broth, particularly in pigeon broth; fowl broth may, however, be substituted just as well. Water is to be drunk before and after taking It. The compound may likewise be taken with honey, which is the best method, and gives the best results.

The chapter titled "Prescriptions for Increasing the Dimensions of Small Members and for Making Them Splendid" Provides recipes for topical applications for the generative member. I will admit that the treatment requiring repeated applications of hot pitch and a leather wrap upon one's "staff of life" makes me shudder and twitch.  

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elise Fleming" <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
To: "sca-cooks" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 4:57:48 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Horse Dung and Pregnancy

Greetings! I think I've found one recipe for women in labor that 
contains horse dung. There may be another, earlier recipe but this one 
is from "The Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe", 1695.

To make ye horse dunge water.

Take horse dunge & putt to it so much Ale as will make it like hasty 
puding, and put it into your still. Then putt on ye topp one pound of 
reakell, and a quarter of a pound of genger in powder, and a quarter of 
a pound of sweet anniseeds, and so distill all these together. This 
water is good for women in labor and in childbed, for Agues and feavers 
and all distempers.

There are numerous recipes for concoctions relating to women and their 
ailments or conditions in Robert May's "The English Housewife". They are 
in the physical receipt section and deal with topics such as increasing 
women's milk, drying it up, poultice for sore breasts, for ease in 
childbearing, for a dead child in the womb, a general purge for a woman 
in child bed, etc.

I've come across two recipes using doves' dung. One is in the aforesaid 
"English Housewife"

May also has a recipe for the "flux" which includes a dried, grated up, 
stag's pizzle, drunk in either beer, wine or ale.

Think I'll go have dinner now...

Alys K.
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