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Infusion of Spikes ovate

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 contextPoison PreparationInfusion RouteInternal use Plant recordGloriosa superba ↗

Poison

Poison is retained as a hazardous, toxicological or harmful-use term. It is presented for completeness and research, never as a practical instruction.

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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Use relationship map

Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.

This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.

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.

Historical use wording: a dose

Source: New medical discoveries, with a defence of the Linnaean doctrine and a translation of his vegetable materia medica, which now first appears in an English dress by Whitlaw, Charles. n 84209255; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Vegetable materia medica. n 79109333 (1829), monograph-offset-606971-2.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Spikes ovate: Two or 3 oz. of the expressed juice, or a strong infusion of the like quantity, may be given for a dose.

Method as extracted

  1. Infuse according to the source passage: Two or 3 oz. of the expressed juice, or a strong infusion of the like quantity, may be given for a dose.

Live editorial status

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

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.
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. New medical discoveries, with a defence of the Linnaean doctrine and a translation of his vegetable materia medica, which now first appears in an English dress — New medical discoveries, with a defence of the Linnaean doctrine and a translation of his vegetable materia medica, which now first appears in an English dressPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-606971-2.
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