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Historical source record Immune, infection & fever

Fomentation of FOMENTATIONS

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 contextDiaphoretic PreparationFomentation RouteTopical use Plant recordCosmos sulphureus ↗

Diaphoretic

Diaphoretic is a historical action or property term used in ethnobotanical literature. It describes reported intent, not a verified pharmacological effect.

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

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Historical use wording: relieving acute pain

Source: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), narrative-offset-1426367.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • FOMENTATIONS: of white poppy-heads, two ounces ; elder bowers, half an ounce ; water, three pints. Bod till one pint is evaporated, and

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Anodyne Fomentation. — Take of white poppy-heads, two ounces ; elder bowers, half an ounce ; water, three pints. Bod till one pint is evaporated, and strain out the liquor. — This fomentation, as its title ex- presses, is used for relieving acute pain.

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Modern safety boundary

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  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
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  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author — Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling pupPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1426367.
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