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DECOCTIONS

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.

Related plant contextAstringent PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

Astringent

A traditional action term for substances described as tightening or drying tissues, often because of tannin-rich preparations.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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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 Buchan, William, 1729-1805 (1803), paragraph-5378.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Boil three ounces of the fhavings, or chips of logwood, in four pints of water, til! one half the liquor is wafted
  • 'wo or -three ounces of fimple cinnamon-water may be added to this de- coction
  • Boil an ounce of the Peruvian bark, grofsly powdered, in a pint and a half of water to one pint; then ftrain the decoétion
  • Compound Decoétion of the Bark. . ‘Take of Peruvian bark, and Virginian {nake-root, grofsly _ powdered, each three drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Boil three ounces of the fhavings, or chips of logwood, in four pints of water, til! one half the liquor is wafted.
  2. Boil an ounce of the Peruvian bark, grofsly powdered, in a pint and a half of water to one pint; then ftrain the decoétion.
  3. Boil them in a pint of water to one half.

Live editorial status

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Modern safety boundary

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Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • 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.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. 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 — 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 practitionersPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-5378.
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