Pill of Medical Properties wood

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Historical use wording: bazaar Rusot with alcohol, which dissolves the pure extract, and leaves the im- purities behii\d

Source: Pharmacopœia of India [electronic resource] : prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in council by Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891; University of Glasgow. Library (1868), monograph-offset-44618-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Medical Properties wood: 13 root-bark in two pints of the spirit for twenty-four hours ; pack in a percolator, and pass the remainder of the spirit slowly through it ; distil off the spirit, and evaporate the residue until the extract is of a suitable consistence for forming pills. Dose. — From tweuty to thirty grains daily. [A watery extract from the wood aud bark of several species of Berberis, sold in the bazaars under the name of Rasot o

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: 13 root-bark in two pints of the spirit for twenty-four hours ; pack in a percolator, and pass the remainder of the spirit slowly through it ; distil off the spirit, and evaporate the residue until the extract is of a suitable consistence for forming pills. Dose. — From tweuty to thirty grains daily. [A watery extract from the wood aud bark of several species of Berberis, sold in the bazaars under the name of Rasot or Rusot, has long been held in high esteem by the natives as a febrifuge, and as a local application in eye diseases. ('") It generally con- tains a large proportion of impurities, and in this state may be resorted to, in the absence of purer forms, in doses of half a drachm to a drachm ; but it is safer to treat bazaar Rusot with alcohol, which dissolves the pure extract, and leaves the im- purities behii\d.

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