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Historical source record Digestive & gastrointestinal

Cordial of PHARMACOPOEIA

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.

Documented in sourceIndigestion PreparationCordial RouteInternal use

Indigestion

Indigestion 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.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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

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Historical use wording: old coughs , which are ac¬ companied with some degree of debility, flatulency, and indigestion

Source: A treatise on veterinary medicine by White, James, -1825 (1815), narrative-offset-243910.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • PHARMACOPOEIA: We shall now give some receipts for pectoral cordials , which differ from the foregoing, by being less stimulating, and containing in¬ gredients that promote expectoration, and alleviate or cure old coughs , which are ac¬ companied with some degree of debility, flatulency, and indigestion : when costive¬ ness occurs during their use, it is to be re¬ moved by a gentle laxative. (See Laxa¬ tives.) Pectoral Cordial Ball

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: We shall now give some receipts for pectoral cordials , which differ from the foregoing, by being less stimulating, and containing in¬ gredients that promote expectoration, and alleviate or cure old coughs , which are ac¬ companied with some degree of debility, flatulency, and indigestion : when costive¬ ness occurs during their use, it is to be re¬ moved by a gentle laxative. (See Laxa¬ tives.) Pectoral Cordial Balls. Powdered anise-seed, half an ounce. - - . - squill, one dram. - - myrrh, one dram and a half.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, quality score below 70, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, not herbal remedy, 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

Professional review advised

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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: 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. A treatise on veterinary medicine — A treatise on veterinary medicinePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-243910.
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