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Historical source record Pain, inflammation & musculoskeletal

COMPOUND SYRUP OF PARTR1DGEBERRY

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 contextHeadache PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordChamaelirium luteum ↗

Headache

Headache is the condition or symptom label preserved in the historical source data. The label may be older, broader or less precise than current diagnostic terminology.

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 dispensatory and pharmacopoeia of North America and Great Britain [electronic resource] by Buchanan, John; Siggins, John J (1878), paragraph-7045.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Partridgeberry, one pound
  • Helonias root, High cranberry bark, Blue cohosh root, each four ounces
  • Then transfer the whole to a displacement apparatus, and gradually add brandy until three pints of spirituous tincture have been obtained, which reserve
  • Then continue the dis- placement with water, until the liquor passes tasteless ; add to this two pounds of refined sugar, and evaporate by a greater heat to five pints ; remove from the fire, add the reserved three pints of spirituous tincture, and flavor with essence of sassafras

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Partridgeberry, one pound ;
  2. Grind and mix the articles together, place the whole pound and three- quarters in a convenient vessel, cover them with fourth-proof brandy, and macerate for three days.

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, promotion title hygiene failed, not marked promotable. 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.
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 dispensatory and pharmacopoeia of North America and Great Britain [electronic resource] — The dispensatory and pharmacopoeia of North America and Great Britain [electronic resource]Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-7045.
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