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White Decoction

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 PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

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: Domestic Medicine by William Buchan (1784), paragraph-2637.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of the purest chalk, in powder, two ounces; gum arabic, half an ounce; water, three pints
  • Boil to one quart, and strain the decoction
  • It may be sweetened with sugar, as it is used, and two or three ounces of simple cinnamon-water added to it
  • An ounce of powdered chalk, mixed with two pints of water, will occasionally supply the place of this decoction, and also of the chalk julep

Method as extracted

  1. Take of the purest chalk, in powder, two ounces; gum arabic, half an ounce; water, three pints.
  2. Boil to one quart, and strain the decoction.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: 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: pediatric or infant use.
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. Domestic Medicine — Project GutenbergPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-2637.
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