Logwood
From London's Ghost Acres
A dye created from the logwood tree, used to dye black Morocco leather (Yeats 1878, 297).
Database name: Dyewoods Logwood
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Contents
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
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