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Syrapus é Spina Cervinas Syrup of Buckthorn

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 contextAstringent PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

Astringent

A traditional action term for substances described as tightening or drying tissues, often because of tannin-rich preparations.

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: Pharmacopoeia universalis: or, a new universal English dispensatory. Containing, I. An account of all the natural and artificial implements and instruments of pharmacy, together with the processes and operations, whereby changes are induced in natural bodies for medicinal purposes ... With a copious index to the whole by James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776 (1752), paragraph-8890.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of the Juice of Buckthorn- berries ripe and frefh, one Gallon
  • Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmegs, of each one Ounce; of double re- fined Sugar, feven Pounds
  • Boil down the reft, towards the End adding that wherein the’ Spices have been in- fafed, but ftrained from them, that the Whole may be reduced to two Quarts; then add the Sugar, and make the Syrup

Method as extracted

  1. Take of the Juice of Buckthorn- berries ripe and frefh, one Gallon ; .
  2. Boil down the reft, towards the End adding that wherein the’ Spices have been in- fafed, but ftrained from them, that the Whole may be reduced to two Quarts; then add the Sugar, and make the Syrup.

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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  • 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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. Pharmacopoeia universalis: or, a new universal English dispensatory. Containing, I. An account of all the natural and artificial implements and instruments of pharmacy, together with the processes and operations, whereby changes are induced in natural bodies for medicinal purposes ... With a copious index to the whole — Pharmacopoeia universalis: or, a new universal English dispensatory. Containing, I. An account of all the natural and artificial implements and instruments of pharmacy, together with the processes and operations, whereby changes are induced in natural bodPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-8890.
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