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For the Decoction

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.

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Decoction

Decoction is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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.

Historical use wording: the Decoction

Source: The household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ... by Reynolds, Susannah Frances; Hall, William E; University of Leeds. Library (1847), paragraph-3134.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • For the Decoction. — Boil six or eight ounces of the sliced root in two pints of water, down to one pint, of which the usual dose is a tea- cupful twice or thrice a day

Method as extracted

  1. Rub all this together, till the egg has become quite smooth like a thick paste.
  2. Add a teaspoonful of made mus- tard, and continue mixing.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Professional review advised

Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • 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.
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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 household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ... — The household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3134.
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