Kickapoo Indian Oil

Kickapoo Indian Oil  was a liniment produced by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, promoted as a general pain relief agent for nervous and inflammatory conditions.

Composition
According to several sources, Kickapoo Indian Oil was a rebranded version of E. H. Flagg's formula for "Flagg's Instant Relief", which he had briefly peddled with John E. Healy and "Texas Charley" Bigelow, the founders of the Kickapoo Medicine Co.

One published formula for Indian Oil includes: "Camphor, Myrrh, Capsicum, Oil of Cloves, Oil Sassafras, Sulphric Ether, Water, Opium 1&frac12;"0 of one grain, and alcohol 60%". Another in Oleson's "Secret nostrums and systems of medicine" (1903), citing "New Idea", provides the basic formula as: ''"Camphor, &frac12; oz. troy.; Oil turpentine, 1 fl. dr.; Oil peppermint, &frac12; fl. dr.; Oil wintergreen, &frac12; fl. dr.; Tinct. capsicum, &frac12; fl. oz.; Alcohol sufficient to make, 1 pt."''