Tincture of Laurus culilawan bark

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Source: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), materia-442-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Laurus culilawan bark: Pereira says, “ Culilawan bark is an aromatic .stimulant like cassia, with some astringency, and a flavour of cloves; it owes its medicinal activity to a combination of volatile oil, resin, and bitter extractive; it is useful as a carminative, and stomachic in dyspeptic complaints, especially Avhen given in combination with the bitter tonics; it has been used in atonic gout, in old diarrhoeas, &c.; the dose of it in

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: Pereira says, “ Culilawan bark is an aromatic .stimulant like cassia, with some astringency, and a flavour of cloves; it owes its medicinal activity to a combination of volatile oil, resin, and bitter extractive; it is useful as a carminative, and stomachic in dyspeptic complaints, especially Avhen given in combination with the bitter tonics; it has been used in atonic gout, in old diarrhoeas, &c.; the dose of it in substance is from ten grains to half a drachm; the tincture of the Wirtemburg Pharmacopoeia is prepared by digesting four ounces of bark in a pint and a half of spirit; the dose is one’ or two fluid drachms; the oil prepared by distillation may be used as the oils of cloves, cassia, &c. ; the natives of Amboyna employ it inter- nally ill paralysis of the bladder, and externally as a stimulating lini- ment in contusions, paralysis, and arthritic complaints.” It appears from the investigations of Blume, that the Cidilawan bark of the shops consists of a mixture of several Indian barks, especially those of C. sintoc, Javanicuin, and Xantkoneurum, a confusion of no import- ance, as they are all alike in properties. (L.) This is one of the varieties of Clove bark, namely, that in flat pieces.

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