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12 Formulas for Diarrhea

The Purpose of our '12 Formulas' Pages are to illustrate
various formulas used to treat a specific condition on one page. 
This can be useful to help Practitioners develop their own Formulas.



Rice Pap
Boil Rice in Almond Milk and serve with powdered Nutmeg. (Grabelkover, 1599)

Syrup of Quinces
Quinces are made into a syrup with 12 oz. of the strained juice which is boiled down to half, to which wine, and 9 oz. of Sugar are added, and formed into a Syrup.
  It cools and strengthens the Stomach and is useful for Diarrhea.


Astringent Powder for Diarrhea
  Armenian Earth
  Toasted Rhubarb

1 pound
3 oz.

Used for Diarrhea and Loose bowels.
Dose: half–1 dram (A Physical Vade Mecum, Dispensatory of St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1741)


Styptic Pills
  Alum
  Dragon's Blood

3 drams
1 dram
Melt the Alum over a fire, stir in the Dragon's Blood in powder. From each dram, form 10 pills.
  Used for obstinate Diarrhea and Dysentery, especially with Blood. Also Bleeding of the Lungs, Stomach or Bowels. Dose: 5 pills, 3 times daily. (Pharmacopoeia Pauperum, 1718)


Powder of Three Peppers of Galen
  The 3 Peppers
  Ginger
  Annis
  Thyme
  Honey

1 lb. each


1 oz. each
sufficient

Form an Electuary. Used for all types of Cold Phlegm diseases including Diarrhea from Cold and Damp.

Infusion for Colitis
  Comfrey leaf
  Agrimony
  Marshmallow leaf
  Cranesbill




equal parts
Prepare an Infusion. Used for Diarrhea with Mucous. Take a wine-glassful three times daily. (Wonders in Weeds, W. Smith)

Lavangadi Churna
  Ginger powder
  Black Pepper
  Clove
  Nutmeg
  Long pepper
  Sugar

6.25 oz.
1 oz.


90 grains each
8 oz.

Used for Diarrhea from Cold and Damp with Colic, indigestion and loss of Appetite. (Ayurveda)

Tormentil Decoction for Diarrhea
    Tormentil
    Mastic
    Ginger
    Galangal



2 drams each
1 dram

Decoct in water down to half. (Gabelhover, 1599)

Troches of Pomegranate Flower
  Pomegranate flower
  Red Earth
  Gum Arabic
  Rose
  Acacia leaf extract
  Tragacanth
  Pomegranate juice



40 grams each

30 grams
20 grams
sufficient

Powder and form Troches with Pomegranate juice.
Used for chronic Diarrhea, including that with Blood. (Unani)


Powder to Warm and Bind the Belly
  Wormwood
  Cyperus
  Mastic
  Mace
  Red Coral
  Pomegranate flower
  Sumac
  Myrtle berries
  Long Pepper
  Cinnamon
  Dragons Blood           




½ oz. each






2 drams

Form powder. (Rondeletius)

Electuary for the Stomach with Cinnamon
  Calamus condited
  Balm conserve
  Mint conserve
  Rose conserve
  Clove
  Cinnamon
  Ginger
  Sugar dissolved in
    Rose water           

3 oz.

2 oz. each
4 oz.

½ oz.

1 oz. each

6 oz.

Warms and Strengthens the Stomach, used for Mucous Diarrhea from Cold and Wind. (Dispensatorium Brandenburgicum, 1698)

Electuary of Micleta
  Yellow Myrobalan
  Chebulic Myrobalan
  Black Myrobalan
  Beleric Myrobalan
  Emblic Myrobalan
  Cress seed
  Seeds of Caraway
    Annis
    Cumin
    Fennel
    Bishop’s weed
  Tabasheer
  Pomegranate flowers
  Sumac
  Mastic
  Gum Arabic

 

2½ drams each

2 drams each
2½ drams




1½ drams each




1 dram, 15 grains each

A famous strengthening astringent medicine for Diarrhea and other leakages. (Nicholas)

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