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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 contextAlterative PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordliquorice ↗

Alterative

A historical herbal term for gradual improvement of general function or elimination; it has no single modern medical definition.

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 American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations ... by Thacher, James, 1754-1844 (1821), paragraph-3721.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • This decoction is given in general when bark in conside- rable doses is requisite, and where the powder does not remain on the stomach. ‘The dose is two ounces repeat- ed occasionally. | Decoctum Daprunes Mezerei.~ Decoction of Mezereon
  • of Bark of the root of mezereon, two drachms, Root of liquorice bruised, half an ounce, Water, three pounds
  • Boil with a gentle heat to two pounds, and strain

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Bark of the root of mezereon, two drachms, Root of liquorice bruised, half an ounce, Water, three pounds.
  2. Boil with a gentle heat to two pounds, and strain.

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, 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: serious disease claim.
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 American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations ... — The American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3721.
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