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Bath of NUX VOMICA ALKALOIDS

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 contextCanicide PreparationBath RouteBath Plant recordStrychnos nux-vomica ↗

Canicide

Canicide is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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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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: Chemistry : general, medical, and pharmaceutical; including the chemistry of the British pharmacopoeia : a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications in medicine and pharmacy by Attfield John, 1835-1911; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1885), narrative-offset-1760712.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • NUX VOMICA ALKALOIDS: One ounce of the percolate is treated as follows. Evaporate almost to dryness over a water-bath, dissolve the residue in two fluid drachms of chloroform and half a fluid ounce of diluted sulphuric acid, with an equal bulk of water ; agitate and warm gently.

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: One ounce of the percolate is treated as follows. Evaporate almost to dryness over a water-bath, dissolve the residue in two fluid drachms of chloroform and half a fluid ounce of diluted sulphuric acid, with an equal bulk of water ; agitate and warm gently.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • 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.
  • Automated review flags: corrosive or toxic chemical, high risk botanical.
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. Chemistry : general, medical, and pharmaceutical; including the chemistry of the British pharmacopoeia : a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications in medicine and pharmacy — Chemistry : general, medical, and pharmaceutical; including the chemistry of the British pharmacopoeia : a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications in medicine and pharmacyPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1760712.
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