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)
