Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.
This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.
This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗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 London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849 (1836), paragraph-10195.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- ‘Take of senna leaves, two ounces ; boiling water, a pound and a half ; burnt syrup, ezght ounces
Method as extracted
- Macerate the leaves in the water in a covered vessel for four hours, and strain; then add the syrup, and boil with a gentle heat until the whole acquire the consistence of the burnt syrup.” ‘ Take of manna, refined sugar, of each, a pound; senna leaves, halfan ounce ; boiling water, a pint.
- Let the senna leaves be macerated in the water, in a covered vessel, for twelve hours: then dissolve the manna and the sugar in the strained liquor.” This syrup contains the purgative pr operties of the senna, and is chiefly intended for children.
Live editorial status
This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: quality score below 70, promotion title hygiene failed, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.
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.
- Automated review flags: pediatric or infant use.
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
- The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians — The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the LondoPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-10195.