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Historical source record Digestive & gastrointestinal

Pill of Treatment

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.

Related plant contextCarminative PreparationPill RouteInternal use Plant recordCitrullus colocynthis ↗

Carminative

A traditional action term for aromatic preparations associated with gas and digestive discomfort.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation 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

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: The book of health; a compendium of domestic medicine (1840), narrative-offset-302325.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Treatment: of compound extract of colocynth, half a drachm j compound rhubarb pill, a scruple; Castile soap, ten grains ; oil of juniper, five drops

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Treatment.— Among the numerous remedies laid down for this affection, the following must not be neglected ; to divert the patient from his own feelings by a constant change of scene, daily exercise, either in an open carriage or on horseback, convivial society, various amusements and rural sports, warm bathing,* early hours, regular meals, and a careful attention to the state of the bowels. As the bowels are always in a torpid state, one or two of the following pills may be taken three times a week: — Take of compound extract of colocynth, half a drachm j compound rhubarb pill, a scruple; Castile soap, ten grains ; oil of juniper, five drops.

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, 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

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  • 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: 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 book of health; a compendium of domestic medicine — The book of health; a compendium of domestic medicinePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-302325.
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