Distilled preparation of Cacao nut

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Source: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), materia-512-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Cacao nut: ' Fruit, Dates, Dactylus, saccharine, fleshy, emollient, slightly astrin- ! gent, and pectoral. (G.) The fruit of this tree makes a great part of i the diet of the inhabitants of Arabia and part of Persia; in Upper Egypt, many families subsist almost entirely upon it; they make a - . conserve of it with sugar, and even grind the hard stones in their hand- mills for their camels; the date is said to strengthen the sto

Method as extracted

1. Distill according to the source passage: ' Fruit, Dates, Dactylus, saccharine, fleshy, emollient, slightly astrin- ! gent, and pectoral. (G.) The fruit of this tree makes a great part of i the diet of the inhabitants of Arabia and part of Persia; in Upper Egypt, many families subsist almost entirely upon it; they make a - . conserve of it with sugar, and even grind the hard stones in their hand- mills for their camels; the date is said to strengthen the stomach and ■. i the intestines, to stop looseness, and promote expectoration, for which I purpose it is given in pectoral decoctions; it is also recommended in - ' the piles, given in red wine; juice distilled forms a kind of -4rrocA;. . ■ (Lou.) A single tree often affords in Arabia from 100 to 200 lbs. of .. ^ fruit. (O’Sh.) .

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