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Cinnamon Cordial is prepared from 2 dwts

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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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: A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, varnishes, and similar articles kept in the shops; with their composition, uses, doses, and adulterations; being a general book of formulae for daily reference in the laboratory, and at the counter by Rennie, James, A.M. surgeon; University of Glasgow. Library (1820), paragraph-936.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Fine with half a pint of alum water, and sweeten with about Ibij of loaf sugar ; make up the two gallons with water, and colour with burnt sugar
  • If it be required very strong, digest and distil Ibviij of bruised cinnamon from 17 gallons of spirit of wine, and two gallons of water
  • Draw off 18 gallons with a strong heat
  • Cinnamon Water is prepared by simmering for half an hour in a still Ibj of bruised cinnamon with two gallons of water

Method as extracted

  1. Put what comes over into the still again, and when cold strain through flannel.

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  • 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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, varnishes, and similar articles kept in the shops; with their composition, uses, doses, and adulterations; being a general book of formulae for daily reference in the laboratory, and at the counter — A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-936.
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