Beware of the Dung Tea

“Among the foremost of remedies ‘handed down’ in the family is the tea made of dung,” recalled Oregon pioneer Charles Banister. His grandmother’s favored medicinal dung was that of the “common sty-pig, which, when dried and baked in an oven and made into a tea is said to cure evils of all sorts, from the slightest indisposition to measles and smallpox.” He remembered the treatment for a  child who had taken sick with the measles in Baker, Oregon. His grandmother “procure