Logwood

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

Database name: Dyewoods Logwood

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British Pharmacopoeia 1867

Logwood Haematoxyli Lignum

“The slices heart-wood of Haematoxylum campechianum… Imported from Campeachy, Honduras, and Jamaica.” (148)

Characteristics

“The logs are externally of a dark colour, internally they are reddish-brown; the chips have a feeble agreeable odour, and a sweetish taste; a small portion chewed imparts to the saliva a dark pink colour.” (148) Used in the preparations of:

• Decoctum Haematoxyli
• Extractum Haematoxyli

Preparations of Logwood

Decoction of Logwood / Decoctum Haematoxyli (98)

• Logwood, in chips (1 oz), cinnamon bark, in coarse powder (60 grains), distilled water (1 pint)
• Dose: 1-2 fl oz

Extract of Logwood / Extractum Haematoxyli 120

• logwood, in fine chips (1 lb), boiling distilled water (1 gallon)
• dose: 10-30 grains

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)

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

Imported from

• Hayti and St. Domingo
• British West India Islands
• Mexico

Used to Make

• Dye and Colour Industry
• Leather and Skins Industry
• Morocco Leather
• Varnish and Paint Industry