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To Increase Milk Flow

Rub castor oil on the breasts to increase milk flow
after the birth of a baby.

Submitter comment: From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda Pearce,
last mistress of Springhill Plantation, kept
before the Civil War. (More at Informant Profile.)

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Birth
BELIEF -- Plant
BELIEF -- Method of Curing

Date learned: 00001940CA

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