Tinctura Sennae Composita. Lond. Tincture of Senna

"Take of senna leaves, three ounces and a half; carraway, bruised, three drachms and a half; cardamoms, bruised, a drachm; raisins, five ounces; proof spirit, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days, and filter.

Tinctura Sennae Composita, Dub. Compound Tincture of Senna.

"Take of senna leaves, a pound; carraway seeds, bruised, one ounce and a half; lesser cardamom seeds, husked and bruised, half an ounce; proof spirit, a gallon. Digest for fourteen days, then filter."

1 Elixir salutis, P. L. 1720. Tinct. Sennae, P. L. 1824.

Tinctura sennae composita, Edin. Compound Tincture of Senna.

"Take of the leaves of senna, two ounces; jalap root, bruised, one ounce; coriander seeds, bruised, half an ounce; proof spirit, three pounds and a half. Digest for seven days, and to the filtered tincture add of refined sugar, four ounces."

These tinctures are stomachic and purgative. They are very efficacious in flatulent colic, atonic gout], and as an opening medicine for those whose bowels have been weakened by intemperance. The dose is from f 3 ij. to f j. in any appropriate vehicle.

Tinctura Serpentariae. Lond. Dub. Tincture of Snake Root

"Take of snake root (cut and bruised, Dub.), three ounces and a half; proof spirit, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days (seven days, Dub.), and filter."

Tinctura Aristolochiae Serpentariae, Edin. Tincture of Snake Root.

"Take of snake root, bruised, two ounces; cochineal, in powder, a drachm; proof spirit, two pounds and a half. Digest for seven days, and filter through paper."

This tincture is stimulant, diaphoretic; and an useful addition to infusion of cinchona bark, in typhoid and putrid fevers, gout, and periodic headach. The dose is from f 3 ss. to 3 ij.

Tinctura Valerianae. Lond. Dub. Tincture of Valerian

"Take of valerian, bruised, five ounces; proof spirit, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days (seven days, Dub.), and filter.

Syn. Teinture de Valeriane (F.), Baldriantinktur (G.), Tintura di Valeriana (I.).

Proof spirit extracts the active matter of the valerian, but the tincture cannot be given in doses sufficiently large to prove very efficacious.

Tinctura Valerianae Composita. Lond. Compound Tincture of Valerian

"Take of valerian root, bruised, five ounces; aromatic spirit of ammonia, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days, and filter."

Edinburgh. Dublin.

"Take of valerian root in powder, two ounces (four ounces,

1 The preparation called Gout Cordial is a mixture of tincture of senna and tincture of rhubarb.

2 Tinctura Valerianae volatilis, P. L. 1745.

Edin.); spirit of ammonia, a pint (two pounds and a half, Edin.). Digest for seven days; then filter."

Syn. Baldriantinktur mit Ammonium liquor (G.).

As the ammonia corresponds in virtue with the valerian, this tincture is more powerful than the foregoing. It is advantageously employed in hysteria and other nervous affections, in doses of f 3j. or 3ij., given in milk or some other bland fluid.