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Historical source record Cancer & abnormal growth

Syrup of Culpeper

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 contextCancer PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordCucumis sativus ↗

Cancer

A disease of cellular proliferation that is malignant and primary, characterized by uncontrolled cellular proliferation, local cell invasion and metastasis.

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

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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 complete herbal to which is now added upwards of one hundred additional herbs with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are now first annexed the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic with rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654 (1835), narrative-offset-1185017.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Culpeper: a dram of it upon $ Cucumbers and Gourds, of each two drams, -a knife’s point at any time when the cough

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Culpeper.| | It helps the vices of the breathing. ‘The dose oe the powder is half breast, coughs, colds, hoarseness, and con- a Bs or two se hehe i es 5 Asin parish Pe the pic > piers ii bee te to the age or strength o um. or her thats matter. ou may mix It: with any } : takes it. Mite appoints it to be made ‘into syrup, and take: it with a Liquorice stick, an electuary with clarified:honey, and of?if rie fancy ‘the powder best, but if the Nn ah ' 320 THE COMPLETE HERBAL electuary, you may take a dram of it upon $ Cucumbers and Gourds, of each two drams, -a knife’s point at any time when the cough;

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. 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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The complete herbal to which is now added upwards of one hundred additional herbs with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are now first annexed the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic with rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic — The complete herbal to which is now added upwards of one hundred additional herbs with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are now first annexed the English physicPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1185017.
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