Syrup of Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus

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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-1097118.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus: of common Wormwood} you go to bed the night before you intend meanly dry, half a pound, red Roses two} it to operate, it will work the easier, but if for ounces, Indian Spikenard three drams,any of the foregoing occasions, take it with old white Wine, juice of Quinces, of each ta liquorice stick. two pounds and an half,

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: If you take it as a preparative Or Syrup of Wormwood compound. i for an emetic, take half an ounce of it when College.| Take of common Wormwood} you go to bed the night before you intend meanly dry, half a pound, red Roses two} it to operate, it will work the easier, but if for ounces, Indian Spikenard three drams,any of the foregoing occasions, take it with old white Wine, juice of Quinces, of each ta liquorice stick. two pounds and an half, steep them a whole Syrupus Acetosus compositus. day in an earthen vessel, then boil them} Or Syrup of Vinegar compound. gently, and strain it, and by adding two} College.| ‘Take of the roots of Smallage, pounds of sugar, boil it into a Syrup accord-} Fennel, Endive, of each three ounces, the ing to art. Sseeds of Annis, Smallage, Fennel, of each Culpeper.| Mesue is followed verbatim {one ounce, of Endive half an ounce, clear in this; and the receipt is appropriated to Water six pounds, boil it gently in anearthen cold and flegmatic stomachs, and it is an} vessel till half the water be consumed, then admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens? strain and clarify it, and with three pounds both stomach and liver, .as also the instru- : of Sugar, and a pound and a half of white ments of concoction, a spoonful taken in} Wine Vinegar, boil it into a Syrup. the morning, is admirable for such as have} Culpeper.] This in my opinion is a a weak digestion, it provokes an appetite to! gallant Syrup for such whose bodies are one’s victuals, it prevails against the yellow stuffed either with flegm, or tough humours, | jaundice, breaks wind, purges humours by } for it opens obstructions or stoppings both urine.

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