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Decoction of Powerfully astringent

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.

Use not statedUse not stated PreparationDecoction RouteGargle / oral rinse

No specific intended use is stated in the extracted passage

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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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.

Source: Companion to the latest edition of the British pharmacopoeia : comparing the strength of its various preparations with those of the United States and other foreign pharmacopoeias ... by Squire, Peter (1882), narrative-offset-426574.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Powerfully astringent: Externally to suppress hemorrhage from the gums, nose, &c.; to lessen the discharge from mucous membranes, as in gleet, leucorrhea, &c.; as a gargle, lotion, injection, or decoction, more or less diluted. Dose.—(Of powder) 10 to 20 grs. several times a day. (In all the Pharmacopceias. ) Incompatrrites.—The Mineral Acids, Salts of Iron and Lead, Sulphate of Copper, Nitrate of Silver, Carbonates of Potash and Soda, Lim

Method as extracted

  1. Boil according to the source passage: Externally to suppress hemorrhage from the gums, nose, &c.; to lessen the discharge from mucous membranes, as in gleet, leucorrhea, &c.; as a gargle, lotion, injection, or decoction, more or less diluted. Dose.—(Of powder) 10 to 20 grs. several times a day. (In all the Pharmacopceias. ) Incompatrrites.—The Mineral Acids, Salts of Iron and Lead, Sulphate of Copper, Nitrate of Silver, Carbonates of Potash and Soda, Lime Water, Tartar Emetic, Ipecacuanha, and Opium, Infusions of Cinchona, Calumba, and Cusparia.

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.

Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • 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, toxic metal or mineral, invasive or sensitive route.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Companion to the latest edition of the British pharmacopoeia : comparing the strength of its various preparations with those of the United States and other foreign pharmacopoeias ... — Companion to the latest edition of the British pharmacopoeia : comparing the strength of its various preparations with those of the United States and other foreign pharmacopoeias ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-426574.
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