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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 contextAlterative PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordliquorice ↗

Alterative

A historical herbal term for gradual improvement of general function or elimination; it has no single modern medical definition.

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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Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.

This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.

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-1027.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Bruised oak bark, ten drachms, Distilled water, two pints
  • of Sarsaparilla, five ounces, Distilled water, four pints
  • Boil down to two pints, and strain
  • of Boiling decoction of sarsaparilla, four pints, Sassafras, sliced, G-uaiacum wood, rasped, Eresh liquorice, bruised, each ten drachms, Mezereon, three drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Bruised oak bark, ten drachms, Distilled water, two pints.
  2. Boil down to a pint, and strain.
  3. Take of Sarsaparilla, five ounces, Distilled water, four pints.
  4. Boil down to two pints, and strain.
  5. Take of Boiling decoction of sarsaparilla, four pints, Sassafras, sliced, G-uaiacum wood, rasped, Eresh liquorice, bruised, each ten drachms, Mezereon, three drachms.
  6. Boil for fifteen minutes, 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 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-1027.
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