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Historical source record Reproductive & sexual health

Powder of Canada balsam

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 contextAphrodisiac PreparationPowder RouteInternal use Plant recordHelianthus tuberosus ↗

Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac is a historical action or property term used in ethnobotanical literature. It describes reported intent, not a verified pharmacological effect.

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: A pharmacopoeia including the outlines of materia medica and therapeutics for the use of practitioners and students of veterinary medicine by Tuson, Richard V (1874), monograph-offset-207693-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Canada balsam: of — Cantharides, in powder .... Oil of Turpentine 8 parts. * This reaction takes place much more rapidly if air from the lungs be blown through a tube into the solution

Method as extracted

  1. Grind according to the source passage: LiaUOR CANTHARIDIS TEREBINTHI- NATA TEEEBINTHmATED SOLUTION OF CANTH ABIDES Take of — Cantharides, in powder .... Oil of Turpentine 8 parts. * This reaction takes place much more rapidly if air from the lungs be blown through a tube into the solution.

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.

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: corrosive or toxic chemical, 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. A pharmacopoeia including the outlines of materia medica and therapeutics for the use of practitioners and students of veterinary medicine — A pharmacopoeia including the outlines of materia medica and therapeutics for the use of practitioners and students of veterinary medicinePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-207693-1.
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