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Infusion of Senna

A primary-source historical herbal preparation preserved from Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians. The source wording is retained for research and educational reference; it is not modern treatment guidance.

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No specific intended use is stated in the extracted passage

The extracted preparation passage does not state a specific intended use.

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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Historical preparation record

This formula was extracted from a rights-cleared historical primary source and is preserved as an archival record. Historical terminology, identity, strength and safety require modern interpretation.

Source: Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians by Redwood Theophilus, 1806 -, 1892; Bentley Robert; Pereira Jonathan, 1804-1853; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1872), paragraph-11316.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Dissolve the sulphate of magnesia and extract of liquorice in 14 fluid ounces of the infusion of senna, with the aid of a gentle heat, then add the tinctures, and sufficient infusion of senna to make one pint

Method as extracted

  1. Dissolve the sulphate of magnesia and extract of liquorice in 14 fluid ounces of the infusion of senna, with the aid of a gentle heat, then add the tinctures, and sufficient infusion of senna to make one pint.

Automated publication scope

This archival record passed the strict source, formula, botanical identity and hazard gates. Automatic publication confirms record integrity and internal botanical linking; it does not establish clinical effectiveness or modern dosing safety.

Modern safety boundary

Professional review advised

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

  • 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.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians — Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently orderedPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-11316.
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