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Infusion of foxglove or of juniper

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 contextCardiotonic PreparationInfusion RouteInternal use Plant recordDigitalis purpurea ↗

Cardiotonic

Cardiotonic 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

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), narrative-offset-2142689.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • foxglove or of juniper: Distil two gallons." These spirits were formerly used as antiscorbutics, but they possess little value as such ; and are now chiefly used in dropsies attended with much debility. The dose is from fsj. to fziv. combined with infusion of foxglove or of juniper berries SPIRITUS CAMPHORS, Lond.

Method as extracted

  1. Infuse according to the source passage: Distil two gallons." These spirits were formerly used as antiscorbutics, but they possess little value as such ; and are now chiefly used in dropsies attended with much debility. The dose is from fsj. to fziv. combined with infusion of foxglove or of juniper berries SPIRITUS CAMPHORS, Lond.

Live editorial status

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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: high risk botanical.
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 narrative-offset-2142689.
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