Sassafras
From London's Ghost Acres
Contents
British Pharmacopoeia 1867
Sassafras Root Sassafras Radix
“The dried root of Sassafras officinale… From North America.”[1]
Characteristics
“In branched pieces, sometimes eight inches in diameter at the crown; bark externally greyish-brown, internally rusty-brown, of an agreeable odour, and a peculiar aromatic warm taste; wood light, porous, greyish-yellow, more feeble in odour and taste than the bark. Also in chips.” Used in the preparations of:[2]
- Decoctum Sarae compostium
Preparations of Sassafras
Compound decoction of Sarsaparilla / Decoctum Sarae compostium[3]
- Jamaica Sarsaparilla, cut transversely (2 ½ oz), sassafras root in chips (1/4 oz), guaiacum wood turnings (1/4 oz), fresh liquorice root, bruised (1/4 oz), mezereon bark (60 grains), boiling distilled water (1 ½ pint)
- dose: 2-10 fl oz
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865
Medical Articles Containing Sassafras
- Compound Decoction of Sarsaparilla: sassafras, sliced[4]
References
- ↑ General Medical Council of Great Britain, British Pharmacopeia, (London: Spottiswoode & Co.,1867), 277 https://archive.org/details/britishpharmacop00gene
- ↑ GMCGB, 277
- ↑ GMCGB, 100
- ↑ Savory, John. A Compendium of Domestic Medicine (London: John Churchill and Sons, 1865), 293. https://books.google.ca/books?id=VxoDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false