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DECOCTUM HORDEI 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 contextCough PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordAxonopus scoparius ↗

Cough

Cough is the condition or symptom label preserved in the historical source data. The label may be older, broader or less precise than current diagnostic terminology.

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 Dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1843), paragraph-8705.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • “Take of Decoction of Barley two pints [Imperial measure]
  • Figs, sliced, two ounces and a half
  • Liquorice [root], sliced and bruised, five drachms
  • Raisins [stoned’] two ounces and a half
  • Boil down to two pints [Imp. meas. |, and strain.’”?
  • Zond. ‘Take of Pearl-Barley, Figs sliced, Raisins freed of the seeds, of each, two ounces and a half
  • Water five pints and a half (imperial measure]
  • Clean the Barley, if necessary, by washing it with cold water; boil it with four pints and a half of the Water down to two pints; add the Figs, Raisins, and Liquorice Root, with the remaining pint of water; and again boil down to two pints; then strain.” Ed, ‘Take of Decoetion of Barley four pints
  • Raisins stoned, Figs sliced, each, two ounces
  • Dur- ing the boiling, add first the Raisins, then the Figs, and lastly the Liquorice Root a short time before it is finished, when the strained decoction ought to measure two pints.”?

Method as extracted

  1. Boil down to two pints [Imp. meas. |, and strain.’”?

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. 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.
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 Dispensatory of the United States of America — The Dispensatory of the United States of AmericaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-8705.
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