Decoction of Diaprunum solutive bark

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Source: The complete herbal, to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with display of their medicinal and occult qualities; physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are now first annexed the English physician enlarged and key to physic, with rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature. Forming a complete family dispensatory, and a natural system of physic. by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654; Royal College of Physicians of London (1842), narrative-offset-1235641.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Diaprunum solutive bark: an ounce, or half an ounce ’and keep yourself warm. If you would at a time, according to the strength of the \ have my opinion of it, I do not like it. patient

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: College.'] Take of Diaprunum Lenitive whilst it is warm, four pounds, Scammony j prepared two ounce and five drams, mix i them into an electuary according to art. j Seeing the dose of Scammony is increased \ according to the author in this medicine, : you may use a less weight of Scammony if i you please. j Catholicon. \ College.] Take of the pulp of Cassia 5 and Tamarinds, the leaves of Sena, of each \ two ounces, Polypodium, Violets, Rhubarb, 1 of each one ounce, Annis seeds, Penids, | Sugar Candy, Liquorice, the seeds of i Gourds, Citruls, Cucumbers, Melons, of | each two drams, the things to be bruised j being bruised, take of fresh Polypodium I three ounces, sweet Fennel seeds six drams, l boil them in four pounds of water till the * third part be consumed, strain it, and with t two pounds of sugar, boil the decoction to i the thickness of a Syrup ; then with the \ pulps and powder make it into an elec- | tuary according to art. » Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling purge for THE COMPLETE HERBAL r> I't 3 oo-i any part of the body, and very gentle, it j too much; you may take it in white wine, may be given (an ounce, or half an ounce ’and keep yourself warm. If you would at a time, according to the strength of the \ have my opinion of it, I do not like it. patient) in acute, or peracute diseases, for it j Confectio Hamech. gently loosens the belly, and adds strength, \ College .] Take of the bark of Citron, it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen, } Myrobalans two ounces, Myrobalans, gouts of all sorts, quotidian, tertian, andjChebs and blacks, Violets, Colocynthis, quartan agues, as also head -aches.

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