I. In the morning, at noon and in the evening 20 minutes before meals take 1 table spoonful (for children 1 tea spoonful) infusion of 3 whole hen eggs, washed and put in a suitable jar and over them the juice of 3 fleshy lemons is poured, so that the juice is ½ см over the eggs. Leave them for 3 days so that the shells dissolve; after that mix with a fork and take out the egg membrane. Add 2 table spoonfuls of wine brandy so that it does not turn sour soon, and 200 g of sugar candy finely crushed. Keep it in a cold place so that it does not turn sour.
II. Ten minutes after the infusion drink 1 small glass of 75 ml (half for children) infusion of burdock (Lappa minor) (roots) 100 g, plantain (Plantago maior) (leaves and blossom), hellebore (leaves and blossom) and mallow (Malva sylvestris) (leaves and blossom) – 50 g of each. Of that mix brew 2 table spoonfuls in 500 ml of boiling water.
Instead of water if the decoctions are insufficient, drink a decoction of 12 herbs: agrimonia (Agrimonia eupatoria), pine tips, yarrow (Achillea millefolium), Greek nettle (Urtica urens L), yellow yarrow (Achillea Clypeolata L), plantain (Plantago lanceolata) (leaves), forest strawberry (leaves), raspberry leaves, stinky woodruff (Asperula odorata), walnut leaves and currant (ribes) (Ribes) (leaves) – 30 g of each. Put 2 table spoonfuls of that mix in 500 ml of boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes on low heat, and when it cools, filter.
III. Two hours after meals drink 1 small glass of 75 g (half for children) decoction of Iceland moss 40 g, field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) 50 g, hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) 75 g, nettle (Urtica dioica) and goose grass (Polygonum aviculare) – 100 g each. Of that mix brew 2 table spoonfuls in 500 of boiling water. Boil on low heat for 10 minutes, and when it cools, filter.
Gold – carefully rub the stye with some gold jewel. Repeat the procedure several times during the day. The stye will gradually wane and disappear. This method is most effective before the stye appears but you feel that something is wrong in your eye.
Put a little quantity of a grated potato on the painful place. In this way you will make the swelling wane and the pain will considerably diminish.
