Gargle of Datura metel

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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-394-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Datura metel: S., which are fleshless, are of a burning heat, irritating, attenuant, used as a sauce, or to give a false strength to vinegar, spirits, &c.; infused in vinegar, used as a gargle. (G.) The fruit and seeds are a powerful stimulant, without any narcotic pro- perty ; the well-known condiment called Cayenne pepper consists principally of the ground seeds; it is employed in medicine, in com- bination with cinchona, in int

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: S., which are fleshless, are of a burning heat, irritating, attenuant, used as a sauce, or to give a false strength to vinegar, spirits, &c.; infused in vinegar, used as a gargle. (G.) The fruit and seeds are a powerful stimulant, without any narcotic pro- perty ; the well-known condiment called Cayenne pepper consists principally of the ground seeds; it is employed in medicine, in com- bination with cinchona, in intermittents and lethargic affections, also in atonic gout, dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence, tympanitis, paralysis, &c. ; its most valuable application appears, however, to be in cynanche maligna and scarlatina maligna, used either as a gargle, or administered internally. (L.) Capsicum baccatum. (Willd.) Bird pepper.

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