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TINCTURA CATECHU

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 PreparationTincture RouteInternal use Plant recordCanella winterana ↗

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.

Source: The London dispensatory by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849. n 88067930 (1811), paragraph-9364.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of extraet of catechu, fhree ounces; cinnamon bark _ bruised, fwo ounces; proof eh £wo pints
  • Tincture of Catechu; formerly, Japonic Tincture. «¢ Take of extract of catechu in pow der, three ounces ; cin-= namon bark bruised, ¢wo ounces; proof spirit, two powads and a half
  • Digest for séven days, and filter through paper.’ ~ Proof spirit dissolves all the soluble parts of catechu except the mucilage, which in ij of Bengal catechu amounts to 94 grains 3 besides which 72. grains of impurities remain undis- solved

Method as extracted

  1. Take of extraet of catechu, fhree ounces; cinnamon bark _ bruised, fwo ounces; proof eh £wo pints.
  2. Macerate for fourteen days, (seven days, Dud.) ‘and filter,’ Lehi TincTrursa Mimosa CaTEcHu; olim, TINCTURA JAPONI- ~ cA.

Live editorial status

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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.
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Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. The London dispensatory — The London dispensatoryPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-9364.
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