Decoction of Sarsaparilla

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Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1820), paragraph-4587.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of fresh sarsaparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces; sharing* of guai- acum wood, one ounce
• Boil over a slow fire in three quarts of water, to one; adding towards the end half an ounce of sassafras wood, and three drams of li- quorice
• This decoction may be taken, from a pint and a half, to two quarts in the day
• of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezeron root, of each half an ounce ; shavings of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each one ounce ; crude anti- mony, powdered, an ounce and a half

Method as extracted

1. Take of fresh sarsaparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces; sharing* of guai- acum wood, one ounce.
2. Boil over a slow fire in three quarts of water, to one; adding towards the end half an ounce of sassafras wood, and three drams of li- quorice.
3. Strain the decoction.
4. Take of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezeron root, of each half an ounce ; shavings of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each one ounce ; crude anti- mony, powdered, an ounce and a half.
5. Infuse these ingredients in eight pints of boiling water for twenty-four hours, then boil them till one half of the water is consumed, afterwards strain the decoction.

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