The plants included pepper, cinnamon, ginger and lemon. Alcohol was also used to promote perspiration, as were cloves, garlic, onion, parsley, plantain, nettle and burdock. Hot rosemary tea was also thought to increase perspiration, as were rose tea, marigold tea and lavender tea.
A hot infusion of yarrow was also used, as was a hot infusion of balm. A decoction of hawthorn bark was thought to increase perspiration. An infusion of the leaves and flowers of meadowsweet was thought to do likewise. Peppermint and eucalyptus were also used.
See also Body Odor.
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