If this porridge is used from the beginning of the complaint, little or no medicine will be required.
PARCHED RICE.
Roast to a deep brown as you would coffee, and then cook as in rule for boiled rice, p.

199, and eat with cream and sugar.
RICE COFFEE.
Parch as above, and grind.

Allow half a cup to a quart of boiling water, and let it steep fifteen minutes.

Strain, and drink plain, or with milk and sugar.
HERB TEAS.
For the dried herbs allow one teaspoonful to a cup of boiling water.

Pour the water on them; cover, and steep ten minutes or so.