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DECOCTUM SARSAPARILLA 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 contextCarminative PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordCardamom ↗

Carminative

A traditional action term for aromatic preparations associated with gas and digestive discomfort.

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-8737.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Mezereon three drachms
  • The Edinburgh process differs from the London only im the quantity of mezereon, which in the former is half an ounce. ‘The Dublin College takes four pints of the decoction, an ounce, each, of sassafras, guaiacum wood, and liquorice root, and three drachms of mezereon, and proceeds as above
  • Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end of the boiling add of anisced, fenncl-seed, each, half an ounce, senna three ounces, liquorice root an ownce and a half
  • To the residue add six ounces of sarsapurilla and ninety pounds of water
  • Boit to thirty pounds, and near the end add lemon-peel, cinnamon, cardamom, liquorice, of each, three drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Boil fer a quarter of an hour, and strain.”’ Lond.
  2. Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end of the boiling add of anisced, fenncl-seed, each, half an ounce, senna three ounces, liquorice root an ownce and a half.
  3. Strain, and set aside the liquor under the name of THE WEAK bECocTION.

Live editorial status

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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.
  • Automated review flags: toxic metal or mineral, serious disease claim.
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-8737.
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