Honey of Roses is much used in gargles and lotions to wash sores, either in the mouth, throat, or other parts, both to cleanse and heal them, and to stay the fluxes of humours falling upon them.
It is often used in gargles for sore mouths, as also for the secret parts.
Lotions and gargles for sore mouths, or ulcers therein, or in the privy parts or elsewhere, are made with the leaves and roots thereof; which is also good to fasten loose teeth, and to heal spungy foul gums.
Acidulated gargles may be used for the throat, and, when the heat of the body is much above the natural standard, sponging the whole body with cold water, or with vinegar and water, may be had recourse to.
The mouth when involved may be benefited by gargles containing the chlorate of potassium, alum, tannin, the compound tincture of cinchona, or by the use of the spray with a saturated solution of boracic acid in rosewater.
Gargles of potassium chlorate, or potassium chlorate with sumac, exert a soothing influence upon the congested tonsils.
Gargles are not of much service, for the simple reason that they do not come into sufficient contact with the affected parts, and reach at the utmost to the anterior pillars of the soft palate.
To fulfill the second indication, astringent gargles may be used.
Lead acetate (ten grains to the ounce of water) and iodine (half a fluidrachm of the compound tincture to the ounce of water) are useful as gargles and washes.
Antiseptic gargles may be used locally, but as a rule the pain is so great that inhalations of soothing vapors, as before recommended, will answer a better purpose.
Care should therefore be taken to avoid making gargles of such substances as may occasion unpleasant symptoms in small doses, though they may not, perhaps, amount to poisoning.
Gargles are applied by allowing a small mouthful to run as much as possible over the affected part, by holding the head backwards and breathing through it, by which means the liquid is agitated and its action promoted.
Hygienic measures should prevail, such as keeping the bowels open, the skin clean, and the use of the usual throat gargles and nasal sprays.
The nose, throat, and ears receive daily care--sprays to the nose and gargles to the throat, as well as special swabbing to the tonsils.
For sore throats it may be used in gargles with remarkable benefit; and [260] when mixed with vinegar it forms the old-fashioned oxymel, always popular against colds of the chest and throat.
Swedish ladies employ the powdered root as a dentifrice; and gargles prepared therefrom are excellent for sore throat and relaxed uvula.
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