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Source: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery : comprising a practical dispensatory and 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. nr 93032726 (1812), narrative-offset-811421.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • MENSTRUATION: If the smallest dose exceed this operation, they should be only used as an occasional aperient medicine, to obviate costiveness, and three tablespoonfuls of the following mixture taken three times a day : — Take of gum myrrh, prepared natron, of each one drachm ; salt of t steel, one scruple; mint-water, eight ounces. — Mix. Powdered madder root has been much recommended / ;as a remedy for green-sickness, by Professo

Method as extracted

  1. Grind according to the source passage: If the smallest dose exceed this operation, they should be only used as an occasional aperient medicine, to obviate costiveness, and three tablespoonfuls of the following mixture taken three times a day : — Take of gum myrrh, prepared natron, of each one drachm ; salt of t steel, one scruple; mint-water, eight ounces. — Mix. Powdered madder root has been much recommended / ;as a remedy for green-sickness, by Professor Home, of Edinburgh, who directs half a drachm of the fresh powder to be taken three or four times a day ; after two days, the learned doctor observes, two scruples may be given ; and if this dose should not prove effectual in two or three days, it may be increased to a drachm four or five -times a day.

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. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

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  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
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  • 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 : comprising a practical dispensatory and 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 : comprising a practical dispensatory and treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame ; with Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-811421.
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