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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-268-1.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- The leaves leaves: Tea of the leaves and flowers, and syrup of the flowers, purgative and emmenagogue; also the seeds in powder, dose 3)., in common use with the negro slave girls to procure abortion. (G.) The leaves, when bruised, have a smell resembling that of savine, the infusion either of them or the flowers is considered a powerful emmenagogue, so as even to bring on abortion; the leaves are said to have been used as a sub- stitu
Method as extracted
- Infuse according to the source passage: Tea of the leaves and flowers, and syrup of the flowers, purgative and emmenagogue; also the seeds in powder, dose 3)., in common use with the negro slave girls to procure abortion. (G.) The leaves, when bruised, have a smell resembling that of savine, the infusion either of them or the flowers is considered a powerful emmenagogue, so as even to bring on abortion; the leaves are said to have been used as a sub- stitute for senna; the seeds in powder are stated to form a remedy for the bellyache; a decoction of the leaves and flowers has also been em- ployed with success against the fevers of Tortola; root acrid, and even poisonous; the wood makes the best of all charcoal. (L.) Prosopis. (De Cand. ii.
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Toxic / do not self-use
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Primary and supporting references
- 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 — 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 practitionerPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-268-1.