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A cordial Julep

An automatically extracted historical preparation published directly for live editorial review. Botanical identity, formula structure and safety may be incomplete; this is not treatment or dosage guidance.

Related plant contextAstringent PreparationCordial RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

Astringent

A traditional action term for substances described as tightening or drying tissues, often because of tannin-rich preparations.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Use relationship map

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Automated live-review record

This formula was extracted automatically from a historical source and published directly for live editorial inspection. It may contain OCR, title, botanical-identity, ingredient, structure or safety errors. Do not use it as treatment, dosage or self-care guidance.

Source: The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects by Colborne, Robert, active 1753 (1753), paragraph-4334.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Waters of black Cherries, and of Baum, of each three Ounces ; of Barley-cinnamon, two Ounces
  • Epidemical, one Ounce and a half ; compound Piony, and Syrup of Gilly-flowers, of each one Ounce
  • Syrup of Lemons, half an Ounce, and Confection of Alkermes, four Scruples :

Method as extracted

  1. Take Waters of black Cherries, and of Baum, of each three Ounces ; of Barley-cinnamon, two Ounces ;
  2. Mix them.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Professional review advised

Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • Unreviewed automated import: this record is public for live editorial inspection and has not passed manual identity, formula or safety review.
  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
  • Do not use this record as dosage or treatment guidance. Every ingredient, route and contraindication requires qualified editorial verification.
  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

The public record separates the historical passage, structured preparation data, use relationship and modern safety boundary. Same-plant context is presented as context, never as proof that this preparation was intended for that use.

Primary and supporting references

  1. The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects — The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the CPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4334.
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