Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.
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The preparation remains searchable as an archival method record without an invented indication.
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.
Source: A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica by Royal College of Physicians of London (1848), monograph-offset-1310333-2.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- College is unnecessary: For other purposes a more convenient method is to add one or two drops to any of the common purgative pill masses, such as the colocynth or aloetic pill. In obstinate constipation two drops with ten grains of the colocynth pill will generally prove sufficient.
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: For other purposes a more convenient method is to add one or two drops to any of the common purgative pill masses, such as the colocynth or aloetic pill. In obstinate constipation two drops with ten grains of the colocynth pill will generally prove sufficient.
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, quality score below 70, not herbal remedy, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.
Professional review advised
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- 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: high risk botanical.
Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.
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Primary and supporting references
- A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica — A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medicaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-1310333-2.