Important: Safety Warning
This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
In addition, this page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Fluid Extracts
Tincture of Catechu
Take 3 ces of the mixture; pack it moderately in a troy ounces catechu, and 2 troy ounces cin- cylindrical percolator, and displace with…
Tincture of Cinnamon
Mix 2 tincture. (U. S. Ph.) measures alcohol with 1 of water; moisten 3 troy ounces finely powdered…
Tincture of Nutgall
Moisten 4 troy ounces nutgall, in moderately fine powder, with 1 fluid ounce diluted alcohol; pack it in a glass percolator, and displace…
Tincture of Colchicum
Moist- 4562. Tincture of Quassia. Moisten 2 en 4 troy ounces colchicum seed, in moder- troy ounces qaassia, in moderately fine pow- 4 troy…
Tincture of Columbo
moisten 6 troy ounces rhatany, in moderately fine 4 troy ounces columbo, in moderately one powder, with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol…
Tincture of Cubeb
Percolate 2 pints tincture from 4 troy ounces cubeb, following the formula laid down for colchicum. (See No. 4549.) (U. S. Ph.)
Tincture of Tar
Macerate 2 ounces tar in 16 ounces alcohol, until dissolved. displace, with diluted alcohol, 2 pints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.)
Tincture of Squill
Moisten 4 troy ounces squill, in moderately coarse powder, with 1 fluid ounce diluted alcohol; pack it in a conical percolator, and…
Tincture of Stramonium (Take troy ounces stramonium)
Take 4 troy ounces stramonium seed, in moderately fine powder, and percolate 2 pints of tincture 4553. Hamilton's Tincture of Dog- Wood…
Tincture of Colocynth
Colo-troy ounces balsam of tolu in 2 pints alcohol cynth, 8 parts; star anise, 1 part; alcohol, 96 until it is dissolved; then filter. (U…
Compound Tincture of Benzoin
Macerate 3 troy ounces benzoin, troy ounce socotrine aloes, both in coarse powder, and 2 troy ounces storax, for 14 days in 2 pints…
Wood's Tincture of Kino
Kino in fine powder, 14 ounces; alcohol (.835), 8 ounces of tincture. Lastly mix this with fluid ounces; water, 4 fluid ounces; glycerine…
Compound Tincture of Gentian
Mix together 2 troy ounces gentian, 1 troy ounce bitter orange peel, troy ounce cardamom, all in fine powder; moisten with 14 fluid ounces…
Compound Tincture of Kino
This is made in the same way as other tinc- Dissolve troy ounce iodine and 1 of iodide tures (see No. 35), with the following ingre- of…
Tincture of Ginger
Moisten 8 troy ounces ginger, in fine powder, with 2 the United States Pharmacopeia in 1850, for fluid ounces alcohol; pack it firmly in a…
Tincture of Jalap
Mix 2 mea- into a small bulk and in liquid form. Their sures alcohol with 1 water; moisten 6 troy advantages consist in greater convenience…
Class No (Classified Fluid be reduced)
1, of Classified Fluid be reduced to a powder of No. 60 degree of fineness ; with the exception of Buchu, which should be in No. 40 powder…
Class No (Classified Fluid class should)
2, of Classified Fluid class should also be in at least No. 60 powder. Ipecacuanha and jalap may be reduced to dust with advantage. The…
Class No (Classified Fluid Extracts)
6, of Classified Fluid Extracts. The substances included under Extracts. Under this division are placed this class…
Class No (Classified troy ounces)
4, of Classified 12 troy ounces capsicum in fine powder, press Fluid Extracts. This class consists of sac- it firmly in a cylindrical…
Oleoresin of Cubebs
Moderatebined with 3 times their bulk of simiple syrup, ly press 12 troy ounces cubebs in fine powafford syrups of the ordinary strength…
Oleoresin of Lupulin
Press 12 troy ounces lupulin into a narrow cylindrical percolator, and displace with ether 30 fluid ounces; complete the process…
Oleoresin of Black Pepper
Treat 12 troy ounces black pepper in fine powder, by ethereal percolation and distillaand distillation, in the same manner as laid down in…
Class No (Classified Fluid) (II)
5, of Classified Fluid in from the piperin by expression through a Extracts. The extracts obtained by this muslin strainer, and keep in a…
Oleoresin of Ginger
Take 12 The resulting liquid should be exposed in a troy ounces ginger in line powder, press it shallow dish (in summer to a draught of air…
Oleoresin of Male Fern
Pack tle heat (in a water-bath) until reduced to closely 2 pounds avoirdupois, male fern, in the consistence of an ordinary extract. The 2…
Fluid Extract of Stillingia
Cut fresh root of stillingia, 16 troy ounces, into small pieces; cover with alcohol, and digest for 24 hours. Then transfer to a…
Fluid Extract of Yarrow
4591. Alkaline Fluid Extract of Take of yarrow (the recently dried herb) Rhubarb. Take of fluid extract of rhubarb of yarrow (the recently…
Fluid Extract of Seneka
The ing, with occasional agitation, for 24 hours, formula for making this extract will be found filter, dropping sufficient of the…
Fluid Extract of Sumach
the dense solution, renew the water, and again macerate and decant. Mix the two liquids, Take 4 pints 76 per cent. alcohol, and 1 pound…
Fluid Extract of Scullcap
This is prepared from 1 pound of the dried leaves of scullcap (scutellaria) in precisely the same manner as directed for fluid extract of…
Fluid Extract of Pareira
Digest for 24 hours 1 pound pareira root, in coarse powder, in 1 pint boiling distilled water; then pack it in a percolator, and displace 1…
Fluid Extract of Cinchona
Take cinchona (calisaya) in powder, 8 troy ounces; simple (officinal) syrup, 4 fluid ounces; glycerine, 4 fluid ounces; alcohol…
Essence of Peppermint
Oil Boiling Liquid. If boiling liquid be poured of peppermint, 1 ounce; herb peppermint, 1/2 into cold bottles, there is a great risk of…
Ellis's Essence of Beef
Take lean beef, sliced thin, suficient to fill the body 4611. Essence of Camphor, also called Liquor of Camphor; Concentra- of a porter…
Essence of Coltsfoot
Balsam of tolu, 1 ounce; compound tincture of benzoin and rectified spirit of wine, of each 2 ounces; dissolve. 4620. Oxley's Concentrated…
Essence of Chamomile
Essential oil of chamomile, ounce to 1 ounce; are regarded as equivalent to 3 ounces of the spirit of wine, 1 pint; mix. White. Or: finest…
Essence of Spearmint
1 times, then change the receiver, and pour on ounce of essential oil to 1 pint of spirit gradually as required, and at…
Bitter Essence
Wormwood, 4 treated with fresh spirit until exhausted, and parts; gentian root, bitter orange peel, and the tincture so obtained may be…
Essence of Beef
Chop fine 1 41.) pound lean becf, place it with pint of water 4623. Concentrated Essence of Guain a bottle which they will only half fill…