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Historical source record Skin, wounds & external care

Cinnamon- Water, and an Ounce of Syrup of Vio

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 PreparationSyrup 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: The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... by Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763 (1765), paragraph-2331.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • This is a Laxative with one Dram of Senna, and might be taken at one Dofe; but from the Quantity of Water, I fuppofe, it was not fo defigned
  • 4A vulnerary Decoction. | Take the Leaves of Ground-Ivy and of Plantain, of each half an Ounce; of Spring-Water, three Pints

Method as extracted

  1. Boil - fo long that a Quart of the ftrained Liquor may re- main to, which add half an Ounce of white Sugar. * This is good in inward Wounds and Ulcers; in - Vomiting, {pitting and piffing of Blood, and the Bloody- Flux. <A Pint of it is to be taken in a Day.

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, quality score below 70, 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

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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.
  • Automated review flags: serious disease claim.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... — The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, andPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-2331.
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