Wash of Fruit anodyne bark

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Historical use wording: the same purposes as that of Semecarpus Anacardium

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-244-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Fruit anodyne bark: Peduncle of the nut astringent, eatable; juice astringent, made into a kind of wine; kernel of the nut aphrodisiac, used to increase the memory, as also to quicken the genius; shell of the nut contains an acrid oil; exudes gum. (G.) The oil is caustic and thick, blistering when applied to the skin ; has been used as a caustic for warts, corns, obstinate ulcers, ringworm, &c.; the vapour of the oil when roasting will

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Peduncle of the nut astringent, eatable; juice astringent, made into a kind of wine; kernel of the nut aphrodisiac, used to increase the memory, as also to quicken the genius; shell of the nut contains an acrid oil; exudes gum. (G.) The oil is caustic and thick, blistering when applied to the skin ; has been used as a caustic for warts, corns, obstinate ulcers, ringworm, &c.; the vapour of the oil when roasting will often produce violent swelling and inflammation; a gum resem- bling gum arabic, and called Cashew gum, exudes from the bark. (Pereira.) This gum, which in its properties almost entirely agrees with gum arabic, but is rather more astringent, is used in Brazil in the same manner as that substance; the bookbinders in the principal towns sometimes wash books with it, which is said to keep off the moths and ants; the fresh acid juice of the flower stalks is used in lemonade; wine and vinegar, too, are made of it by fermentation; the sympathetic elFect which the nut borne about the person has upon chronic inflammations in the eyes, especially such as are of a scrofulous nature, is remarkable. (Martius.) (L.) The black balsam of the fruit is used for the same purposes as that of Semecarpus Anacardium. (O’Sh.) Balsamodendron. (De Cand. ii.

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