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Macerate the jalap in the spirit for four days, and pour off the tincture

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 sourceTincture PreparationTincture RouteInternal use

Tincture

Tincture is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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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Automated live-review record

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Historical use wording: four days, and pour off the tincture

Source: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, London ... by Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837. n 84168453 (1817), paragraph-1203.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Boil the residuum in the waterto two pints
  • of Opium, sliced, halt a pound, x

Method as extracted

  1. Macerate the jalap in the spirit for four days, and pour off the tincture.
  2. Boil the residuum in the waterto two pints.
  3. Take of Opium, sliced, halt a pound, x

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

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: controlled or narcotic, 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 pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, London ... — The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, London ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1203.
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