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Emplastrum Basilicum Minus
or, Tetrapharmacum
Lesser Basilicum,
or The Plaster of 4 Ingredients


Tradition:
Western

Source / Author:
Mesue

Herb Name
Bees Wax 
Pine Resin 
Pitch 
Olive Oil

Latin
Cera
Resina
Pix
Olea
Amount


1⁄2 lb. ea.
9 oz.


Preparation:
Melt the Wax in the Oil, then add the Resin and Pitch, stirring until cool.

Function:
Digests and concocts crude Humors, promotes Healing

Use:
1. Sore, Boils, Carbuncles, Furuncles
2. Tumors
3. Pain from an excess of crude Humors / Damp
4. Wounds
5. Basilicum is also very good for resolving all hardness including that which remains after Trauma, Bruising, resolution of Tumours


Dose:
Applied topically

Cautions:
None noted

Modifications:
1. Some versions replaced the Resin with Frankincense.
2. Later, the Pitch was omitted and the ointment was called The Yellow Ointment.
3. A Green Basilicum of the London Pharmacopoeia contained Verdigris.


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This was most commonly used by Apothecaries, the Greater Basilicum, also called Basilicum of the Chirurgians [Surgeons] was more commonly used by the Barber-Surgeons.

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