Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

For Bilious Colic and Indigestion

Pour three quarts of boiling water on a quart of hickory ashes and a tea-cup of soot; let it stand a day, then filter it, and if the complaint is bad, take a wine-glassful before and after each meal. This has been very beneficial to persons with the above complaint.