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==A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865==
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“It is employed medicinally as an astringent and corroborant.” It can be used in treatment for diarrhoea, and the latter stages of dysentery. As a decoction, it can be administered to infants as a treatment for cholera. (119/98)
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===Remedies Containing or to be used with Logwood ===
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* Extract of Logwood (87/66): an astringent used in the treatment for diarrhoea.
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* Galls (89/68): '''non-medical''' used in the production of ink
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* Logwood (119/98): see def
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===Prescriptions Containing Logwood ===
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'''Antacids'''
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* Hooper’s Mixture for Diarrhoea (329/308): extract of logwood

Revision as of 17:52, 29 April 2016



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Used to Make

Description

A dye created from the logwood tree, used to dye black Morocco leather (Yeats 1878, 297).

Database name: Dyewoods Logwood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematoxylum_campechianum

https://archive.org/details/aeu3853.0001.001.umich.edu

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

All page numbers are recorded as (PDF #/SOURCE #)

“It is employed medicinally as an astringent and corroborant.” It can be used in treatment for diarrhoea, and the latter stages of dysentery. As a decoction, it can be administered to infants as a treatment for cholera. (119/98)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Logwood

  • Extract of Logwood (87/66): an astringent used in the treatment for diarrhoea.
  • Galls (89/68): non-medical used in the production of ink
  • Logwood (119/98): see def

Prescriptions Containing Logwood

Antacids

  • Hooper’s Mixture for Diarrhoea (329/308): extract of logwood