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Syrup of SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE

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 recordComfrey ↗

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.

Historical use wording: such cases

Source: Botanic guide to health, and the natural pathology of disease [electronic resource] by Coffin, A. I. (Albert Isaiah) (1866), narrative-offset-214238.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE: a large handful of the roots, well cleansed and bruised, 126 BOTANICAL GUIDE TO HEALTH. add two ounces of ginger-root, bruised fine in a mortar, a handful of horehound,

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: The following manner of preparing a syrup will be found useful in such cases : — take a large handful of the roots, well cleansed and bruised, 126 BOTANICAL GUIDE TO HEALTH. add two ounces of ginger-root, bruised fine in a mortar, a handful of horehound, boil the whole well in two quarts of water, strain it, and then add two nutmegs, grated, one teaspoonful of cayenne, and two pounds of sugar; a dose of a tablespoonful three or four times a day, will, if taken for a short time, afford great relief ; it is equally good in cases of incipient consumption.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: primary taxon poison flag, 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

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • 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: serious disease claim.
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. Botanic guide to health, and the natural pathology of disease [electronic resource] — Botanic guide to health, and the natural pathology of disease [electronic resource]Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-214238.
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