Antidotus Analeptica,
or Electuarium Resumptivum
Restorative Electuary
Tradition:
Western, Unani
Source / Author:
Nicholas
Herb Name | Latin | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Rosa gallica | ||
Glycyrrhiza glabra | 2 drams, 5 grains ea. | |
Acacia arabica | ||
Astragalus tragacanth | 2 drams, 2 scruples ea. | |
Pterocarpus santalinus | ||
Santalum album | 4 scruples ea. | |
Succus Glycyrrhiza | ||
Amylum | ||
Papaver somniferum | ||
Portulaceae oleracea | ||
Lactuosa sativa | ||
Chicorium endiva | 3 drams ea. | |
Citrullus vulgaris | ||
Cucurbita spp. | ||
Cucurbita pepo | ||
Cucumis sativus | ||
Cydonia oblonga | ||
Malva sylvestris | ||
Gossypium herbaceum | ||
Viola odorata | ||
Nux Pinea | ||
Pistachio verum | ||
Prunus amygdalus dulcis | ||
Cordia spp | 2 drams ea. | |
Eugenia caryophyllus | ||
Bambusae silicae | ||
Cinnamonum zeylanicum | 1 dram | |
Crocus sativus | 5 grains | |
Saccharum Penidum | 1⁄2 oz. |
Preparation:
Powder what is to be powdered, then make a soft Electuary with 3 times their weight of Syrup of Violets.
Function:
Strengthens Qi, nourishes Yin, clears Heat
Use:
1. Restorative in Consumption, Phthisis, Hectic Fever
2. Strengthens in chronic Illness, chronic weakness, old age and convalescence
3. clears Heat in chronic Fever, Fever associated with deficiency and Hectic Fevers
4. used for chronic Cough with Lung Yin deficiency
5. Quenches Thirst in Fever, Yin deficiency etc.
Dose:
1–2 drams, up to 1 oz. daily
Cautions:
None noted
Modifications:
This long and tedious formula may be condensed without any great loss. A smaller number of seeds may be used in greater dosage, in which case, this formula can be recreated in an abbreviated form.
1. Fernel had a revised version which omitted Ginger, Storax, Water Lily seed and Barberry, and added Fistic nuts, and was more commonly used from the 17th century.
2. Salmon mocked the usefulness of such a small amount of Saffron, it being but 1 part in 2400, and suggested a larger proportion.
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“This Analeptical Antidote or Restaurative Electuary, as Prepositus calls it, is much celebrated by Fernelius; in whose description he found nothing to be changed, but only the order of the simples, and the grains of Berberries; in whose stead he reposed Pistacks [Pistcahio]: But he omitted Storax, which is most commendable and useful in this confection, who’s manner of preparation is so easy, as that it needs not any more declaration.
It restores lost strength, hinders swoundings and syncope, resarciates [restores] the habit of the body, extenuated by long fluxes [leakage], or other immoderate vacuations. It helps and benefits the macilent [emaciated] and consumed, by humectating [moistening], nourishing, and roborating [strengthening] them”. (A Medicinal Dispensatory, Renou, 1657)
“It strengthens Radical Moisture [Yin] softens, moistens, is nutritive, and comforts. It opens the pores, lessens Choler, resists Fever, Cough and Thirst. It restores lost strength and pristine Health, and treats Consumption and Hectics’. (Val Cordi Dispensatorium, 1622)