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Tincture of Opium

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.

Documented in sourceDysentery PreparationTincture RouteInternal use

Dysentery

An intestinal infectious disease that involves inflammation of the intestines, especially colon, due to chemical irritants, bacteria, protozoa, or parasitic worms, which results in severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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.

Historical use wording: dysentery

Source: The family doctor : a dictionary of domestic medicine and surgery; especially adapted for family use (1890), narrative-offset-677769.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Opium: Starch, 8 ounces, Tincture of Opium, 1 drachm, Warm Water, a pint; mix

Method as extracted

  1. Macerate according to the source passage: The nature of Clysters depends upon the ob- jects they are designed to effect; thus, they are either emollient, anodyne, or purgative ; they are often administered to assist the operation of opening medicines ; or in cases where the stomach is in too irritable a state to retain them ; and to destroy ascarides or maw-worms. The following select for- mula of Clysters may be found useful : — Anodyne, for dysentery, or violent purging, pain in the bowels, &c., take Starch, 8 ounces, Tincture of Opium, 1 drachm, Warm Water, a pint; mix.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, quality score below 70, not herbal remedy, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • 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: controlled or narcotic.
Sources & editorial standard

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

  1. The family doctor : a dictionary of domestic medicine and surgery; especially adapted for family use — The family doctor : a dictionary of domestic medicine and surgery; especially adapted for family usePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-677769.
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