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Emplastrum Basilicum Minus
or, Tetrapharmacum
Lesser Basilicum,
or The Plaster of 4 Ingredients
or, Tetrapharmacum
Lesser Basilicum,
or The Plaster of 4 Ingredients
Tradition:
Western
Source / Author:
Mesue
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Herb Name
Bees Wax
Pine Resin Pitch Olive Oil |
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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.
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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