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DECOCTUM HOBDEI COMPOSITUM

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 contextScorpion PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordCosmos sulphureus ↗

Scorpion

Scorpion is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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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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: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 1851 [electronic resource] by Royal College of Physicians of London (1851), paragraph-1018.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Decoction of barley, two pints, Figs, sliced, two ounces and a half, Fresh liquorice, sliced, five drachms, Stoned raisins, two ounces and a half, Distilled water, a pint
  • Boil down to two pints, and strain
  • of Bruised poppy, four ounces, Distilled water, four pints
  • of Pareira, sliced, ten drachms,

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Decoction of barley, two pints, Figs, sliced, two ounces and a half, Fresh liquorice, sliced, five drachms, Stoned raisins, two ounces and a half, Distilled water, a pint.
  2. Boil down to two pints, and strain.
  3. Take of Bruised poppy, four ounces, Distilled water, four pints.
  4. Boil for fifteen minutes, and strain.
  5. Take of Pareira, sliced, ten drachms,

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, 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

Professional review advised

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.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

The public record separates the historical passage, structured preparation data, use relationship and modern safety boundary. Same-plant context is presented as context, never as proof that this preparation was intended for that use.

Primary and supporting references

  1. The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 1851 [electronic resource] — The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 1851 [electronic resource]Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1018.
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