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Liniment for the Piles

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.

Documented in sourcePiles PreparationLiniment RouteTopical use

Piles

Piles is the condition or symptom label preserved in the historical source data. The label may be older, broader or less precise than current diagnostic terminology.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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: the Piles

Source: Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399; Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824. n 84110426; Coffin, John G. (John Gorham), 1769-1829. n 85247863 (1825), paragraph-4787.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Liniment for the Piles. — Take of emollient ointment, two ounces; liquid laudanum, half an ounce

Method as extracted

  1. Mix these ingredients with the yelk of an egg, and work them well together.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, quality score below 70, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

External use only

This boundary permits external context only. Do not convert it into an internal preparation.

  • 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: controlled or narcotic.
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. Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners — Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitionersPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4787.
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