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Syrup ot Ginger

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 contextPiscicide PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordJoannesia princeps ↗

Piscicide

Piscicide is retained as a hazardous, toxicological or harmful-use term. It is presented for completeness and research, never as a practical instruction.

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: Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... by Quincy, John, -1722. n 85067259 (1782), paragraph-5026.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of ginger, cut into thin flices, four ounces ; boiling water, three pints
  • of powdered ginger, three ounces ; boiling water, three pints ; and white fugar, iev«n pounds and a quarter

Method as extracted

  1. Take of ginger, cut into thin flices, four ounces ; boiling water, three pints.
  2. Macerate them for fome houft, then drain out the li- quor, and make it into a fyrup with a proper quantity of double refined fugar.
  3. Take of powdered ginger, three ounces ; boiling water, three pints ; and white fugar, iev«n pounds and a quarter.
  4. Macerate the ginger in the water for twenty- £qur hours in a clofe veflel, then to neys, and Juices.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

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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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... — Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-5026.
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