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DECOCTUM SARSAPARILLiE COMPOSITUM, -Lond

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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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 London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), paragraph-9149.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • " Take of decoction of Sarsaparilla boiling, four pints
  • Sas- safras root sliced, Guaiacum root rasped, liquorice root bruised, of each, an ounce ; bark of Mezereon i*oot, three drachms
  • Boil for a quarter of an hour, and strain." " Take of Sarsaparilla root sliced and bruised, one ounce and a half; raspings of Guaiacum wood, bark of Sassafras root, li- quorice root bruised, of each, two drachms : bark of Mezereon root, a drachm ; boiling water, three__pints
  • " Take of Seneka root, an ounce ; water, two pints

Method as extracted

  1. Boil for a quarter of an hour, and strain." " Take of Sarsaparilla root sliced and bruised, one ounce and a half; raspings of Guaiacum wood, bark of Sassafras root, li- quorice root bruised, of each, two drachms : bark of Mezereon root, a drachm ; boiling water, three__pints.
  2. Boil down to a pint, and strain." Syn.

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

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: 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 London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- — The London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparatiPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-9149.
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