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Historical source record Digestive & gastrointestinal

Powder of essential salt of bark

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 sourcePurgative PreparationPowder RouteInternal use

Purgative

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

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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Historical use wording: by a purgative dose of the Basilic Powder, No

Source: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families and practitioners in medicine and surgery [electronic resource] : comprising a domestic dispensatory and practical treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in medicine by Reece, Richard, 1775-1831; Sloggatt, S. B., active 1828 former owner; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner; King's College London (1817), narrative-offset-964544.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • essential salt of bark: of essential salt of bark

Method as extracted

  1. Grind according to the source passage: TiiEATMENT. — The iriitatioii of the cerebral system (brain and nerves) being generally symptomatic of a disordered state of the digestive organs, or kept up by irritation in the stomach or intestines, it will be proper to commence the cure by a purgative dose of the Basilic Powder, No. After the due operation of which, strengthening medicines, combined with those that are known to allay nervous irritability, should be persevered in, such as the following mixture : — Take of essential salt of bark.

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Modern safety boundary

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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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families and practitioners in medicine and surgery [electronic resource] : comprising a domestic dispensatory and practical treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in medicine — The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families and practitioners in medicine and surgery [electronic resource] : comprising a domestic dispensatory and practical treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incidPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-964544.
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