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Source: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), materia-432-1.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Leaves emollient: Root, Bistortce radix, very astringent, dose ^j. to 3j., tans leather very well; young roots eaten as greens. (G.) A powerful astringent; the decoction may be employed in gleet and leucorrhoea as an injection, as a gargle in relaxed sore throat and spongy gums, and as a lotion to ulcers attended with excessive dischai'ge; internally, it has been em- ployed, combined with gentian, in intermittents; it may also be used
Method as extracted
- Boil according to the source passage: Root, Bistortce radix, very astringent, dose ^j. to 3j., tans leather very well; young roots eaten as greens. (G.) A powerful astringent; the decoction may be employed in gleet and leucorrhoea as an injection, as a gargle in relaxed sore throat and spongy gums, and as a lotion to ulcers attended with excessive dischai'ge; internally, it has been em- ployed, combined with gentian, in intermittents; it may also be used in passive hemorrhages and diarrlima. (L. §x Pereira.) The young shoots were formerly eaten in herb puddings in the north of England, where it is known by the name of Easter giant, and about ^lanchester they are substituted for greens, under the name of Patienee dock. (Loud.) *Polygonum Convolvolus. (Linn.) (E.
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Primary and supporting references
- Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner — Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitionerPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-432-1.