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Historical source record Digestive & gastrointestinal

Syrup of fena and rhubarb

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 contextCarminative PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

Carminative

A traditional action term for aromatic preparations associated with gas and digestive discomfort.

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: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital (1748), paragraph-2445.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Sena-leaves, two ounces
  • Choice Rhubarb, one ounce
  • Sweet Fennel-feeds, Cinnamon, each two drams
  • Boiling Water three pints
  • The liquor being ftrained out, and (after it has fettled for fome time) poured off from the feces, is to be boiled with three pounds of white Sugar over a gentle fire, into a fyrup

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Sena-leaves, two ounces.
  2. Let them fteep together for a night in a clofe ftopt veffel.

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

Professional review advised

Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • 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.
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. The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital — The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-2445.
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