Decoction of mifletoe

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.

Historical use wording: be bled plentifully, unlefs he is low in Of convuls, flefh, old, or lately come off any hard’ continued duty, then you muft be more {paring of his blo

Source: The gentleman's farriery: or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved; also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine. To which is added an appendix. Treating, 1. Of particular disorders of the feet. 2. Observations on shoeing horses ... by Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772 (1759), narrative-offset-129542.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• mifletoe: cinnabar of antimony fix — nervous drams, affa feetida half an ounce, — pall. ariftolochia, myrrh and bay berries, — 3 of each two drams: make into a ball with treacle and oil of amber

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: Tn all thefe cafes the horfe fhould firft The cure be bled plentifully, unlefs he is low in Of convuls, flefh, old, or lately come off any hard’ continued duty, then you muft be more {paring of his blood; afterwards. give the following ball ; adty TAKE affa foetida half an ounce; The ner- — Ruffia caftor powdered two drams; vous ball, valerian root powdered one ounce: . —™S _make into a ball with honey and oil its ee of amber, y ae This ball maybe given twice a day at firft ; and then once, wafhed down with a decoction of mifletoe, or valerian, et G4 {weetened ea 88 Of an Apoplexy, or fweetened with liquorice or honey: an ounce of affa foetida may be tied upina piece of ftrong coarfe linnen rag, and — put behind his grinders to champ on, "| q The laxative purges and emollient ' glyfters fhould be given intermediately to keep the body open ; but when the for- mer balls have been taken a week or ten days, the following may be given once a day with the valerian decoction. > Another TAKE cinnabar of antimony fix — nervous drams, affa feetida half an ounce, — pall. ariftolochia, myrrh and bay berries, — 3 of each two drams: make into a ball with treacle and oil of amber.

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, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.