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Syrup of Poppy Heads seeds

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 contextScorpion PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordCosmos sulphureus ↗

Scorpion

Scorpion is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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

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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 universalis or, complete encyclopedia of the materia medica; contained in the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin as well as of all those of Europe and America ; and of the dispensatories, formularies and chemical works ... With an appendix ... by Jourdan, A. J. L. (Antoine Jacques Louis), 1788-1848 (1833), materia-338-9.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Poppy Heads seeds: Slice and bruise the capsules, pour the water over them, and macerate for twenty-four hours; then express the liquor, and evaporate it slowly to two pints: set the liquor apart that the feces may subside, and finally add the sugar to the clear liquor, and form a syrup. (DugL.) R. Poppy Heads, freed from seeds, and bruised, three parts.

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Slice and bruise the capsules, pour the water over them, and macerate for twenty-four hours; then express the liquor, and evaporate it slowly to two pints: set the liquor apart that the feces may subside, and finally add the sugar to the clear liquor, and form a syrup. (DugL.) R. Poppy Heads, freed from seeds, and bruised, three parts.

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, critical hazard archive only. 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.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The pharmacopoeia universalis or, complete encyclopedia of the materia medica; contained in the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin as well as of all those of Europe and America ; and of the dispensatories, formularies and chemical works ... With an appendix ... — The pharmacopoeia universalis or, complete encyclopedia of the materia medica; contained in the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin as well as of all those of Europe and America ; and of the dispensatories, formularies and chemical works ... WPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-338-9.
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