A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . the Pharmacopoeia, page 285. Musthave a good green, not brown, color. Constituents.—Volatile oil, about two per cent.; alsoresin and tannin. Medicinal Uses.—Gastro-intestinal irritant, with aprobable tendency to stimulate the uterine functions. Usedin atonic conditions of the uterine organs, as in amenorrhoeaand dysmenorrhea. In large doses it is poisonous, produ-cing serious and often fatal gastro-intestinal it is sometimes employed to stimulate indolentulcers, promote suppuration, and as a parasiticide in some forms of s
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . the Pharmacopoeia, page 285. Musthave a good green, not brown, color. Constituents.—Volatile oil, about two per cent.; alsoresin and tannin. Medicinal Uses.—Gastro-intestinal irritant, with aprobable tendency to stimulate the uterine functions. Usedin atonic conditions of the uterine organs, as in amenorrhoeaand dysmenorrhea. In large doses it is poisonous, produ-cing serious and often fatal gastro-intestinal it is sometimes employed to stimulate indolentulcers, promote suppuration, and as a parasiticide in some forms of skindisease, as in eczema, psora, etc. Dose.— to gram (5 to 20 grains). SABINJS CERATUM; U. Cerate. Melt nine ounces of resin cerate on a water-bath ; then add two andone-half ounces, by weight, of fluid extract of savin, and continue toheat the mixture with stirring until the alcohol has been driven remove the mixture from the heat, and stir it until cool. About identical in strength with the preparation of 872 A COMPANION TO THE SABINE EXTRACTUM. Extract of Savin. Evaporate any desired quantity of the fluid extract to the pilularconsistence. Greenish-brown. Dose.— to gram (1 to 5 grains) several times a day. SABHSLE EXTRACTUM FLUID UM; U. Extract of Savin. To make five hundred cubic centimeters (or its equivalent—17 U. ), use five hundred grams (or its equivalent—17§ avoirdupoisounces) of the drug, in No. 30 powder. As a menstruum use alcohol. Moisten the drug with one hundred and twenty-five grams (about5^ fluidounces) of the menstruum. Pack it tightly in a cylindricalpercolator. Saturate with menstruum. Macerate forty-eight percolate. Reserve four hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (15^ fluidounces)of the first percolate. Continue the percolation until the drug is ex-hausted. Evaporate the second percolate to the consistence of honey and thendissolve it in the first percolate. Add enough of
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