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DECOCTION for CATARRHS, COLDS, &c,

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Use not statedUse not stated PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Historical use wording: CATARRHS, COLDS, &c

Source: Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654; Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800; Lofft, Elizabeth Susan, Provenance; Phillips, Edward England, Provenance; University of Bristol. Library (1794), paragraph-5142.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • SWEATING DRAUGHT, for recent COLDS* Take of the fpirit mindereus, four ounces j fyrup of poppies^ and fimplc cinnamon water, of cadi one ounce; volatile fait of hartfhorn, half a fcruple

Method as extracted

  1. Mix them together for tu>» draughts, and take one of them when going into bed, and tkt remainder the fecond evening after.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: quality score below 70, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, 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

Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • 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: controlled or narcotic.
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. Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different — Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to whPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-5142.
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