Distilled medicinal liquids

Applications Distilled medicinal liquids are light in smell, taste and function. Fresh herbs that clear heat and nourish the body fluids are often used in this form, especially in the summer. 

Paints, medicinal Liquid medicinal preparations possessing antiseptic, caustic, soothing, or stimulating properties, usually applied by means of a brush. Paints intended to remain in contact with a specified surface are usually prepared with collodion, glycerin, glycerin and water, egg albumin in alcohol, or gutta percha. Paints intended to be absorbed are prepared with oleic acid or fatty oils. Caustic substances are usually applied dissolved in distilled water, alcohol, or ethereal vehicles, whereas resinous substances, such as benzoin. 

The aromatic, warm, and sweetish odor and taste of the seed, leaves, and stem arises from the presence of a volatile oil that contains anethole p-propenyl phenylmethyl ether, C3H5C6H4OCH3), the derivatives of which (anisole and anisaldehyde) are used in food flavoring, particularly bakery, liqueur, and candy products, as well as ingredients for perfumes. For commercial production of anise oil, the seeds and the dried, ripe fruit of the plant are used. Anise oil. a colorless to pale-yellow, strongly refractive liquid of characteristic odor and taste, is prepared by steam distillation of the seed and fruit. The oil contains choline, which finds use in medicine as a carminative and expectorant. 

Sulfur compounds in the gas oil fractions from two bitumens (Athabasca oil sand and Cold Lake deposit)> a heavy oil (Lloydminster) from Cretaceous reservoirs along the western Canada sedimentary basin, and a Cretaceous oil from a deep reservoir that may be mature (Medicine River) are investigated. The gas oil distillates were separated to concentrates of different hydrocarbon types on a liquid adsorption chromatographic column. The aromatic hydrocarbon types with their associated sulfur compounds were resolved by gas chromatographic simulated distillation and then by gas solid chromatography. Some sulfur compounds were further characterized by mass spectrometry. The predominant sulfur compounds in these fractions are alkyl-substituted benzo- and dibenzothiophenes with short side chains which have few dominant isomers. 

We can concentrate this Fixed Spirit through distillation such that it will extract the Sulfur from gold in a short time. The best way to approach this is by a 4x3 distillation to obtain twelve fractions. This separation opens other possibilities for medicinal use but our interest now is in concentrating the Vinegar. The name "vinegar" is applied to this liquid because of its fermentive origin and its acidic nature, and though it is not acetic acid nor sulfuric acid, the concentrate can reach a pH of one. Test the pH of each of the twelve fractions and combine those which are most acidic. 

Distil this combined liquid into four equal parts and test the pH. Continue the process of distillation, testing, and combining until you have isolated the distillate with a pH of one. This is the concentrated Vinegar of Antimony. The yield is generally small but very powerful medicinally and as a menstruum it will extract the essentials from virtually all of the Mineral realm. 

Place the resin into a suitably sized distillation vessel and proceed to distil as in the acetate work. Drops of a blood-red oil will come over, which are carefully collected by dissolving them into alcohol. Rinse any of the oil adhering to the glassware out with alcohol and combine all of the liquid into a container. Seal and allow it to stand for several days, then decant the clear tinted extract for use. This Fixed Tincture of Antimony has powerful healing properties unrecognized by modern medicine. 

DIGESTION — That action by which a liquid body and a fluidic body are united, either wholly or in part, to extract their tincture, to modify them, to prepare them for dissolution or putrefaction, to cause them to circulate, and thus to volatilize the fixed and to fix the volatile by means of proportioned heat. Almost all the operations of the Great Work may be reduced to that of digestion, which the Philosophers call by various names, according to the phenomena which they have remarked in the vessel at the various stages of the operation. Thus when they make use of the terms Distillation, Sublimation, Imbibition, Ceration, Inspissation, Descension, Solution, Emission, Coagulation, etc., they understand one only operation, or digestion repeated in the medicines of the first, second and third order. 

Definition of Whiskey.—The Department of Agriculture defines only medicinal whiskey and requires that it shall conform to the definition contained in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. This definition reads as follows Whiskey is an alcoholic liquid obtained by the distillation of the fermented mash of wholly or partly malted cereal grains, and containing not less than 47 per cent and not more than 53 per cent by volume of C2H5OH at 15.56° It must have been stored in charred wood containers for a period of not less than four years. 

Use a clean medicine dropper to transfer the liquid and obtain the refractive index of the distillate. Apply the temperature correction determined by the water measurement and record the value. 

Pore phosphorus is a colourless, or very pale, yellowish, transparent, or translucent solid, of the consistence of wax. Its sp. g. is 1-77. At 113° it melts, and at 572° it boils, distilling completely in close vessels. It has, in the solid form, neither taste nor smell but it gives off vapours in the air, which, undeigoing a slow combustion, have an odour of garlic and in solution it has an acrid disagreeable taste. Phosphorus is insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, ether, oils, sulphuret of carbon, and chloride of phosphorus. From the latter liquids it is often deposited in octahedral and dodecahedral crystals. It is very poisonous, but is used in medicine in very small doses. 

The 2,5-dimethoxy-3,4-methylenedioxy pattern. The parent allyl benzene is apiole (with a final "e") or parsley camphor, and it is the major component of parsley seed oil. Its conjugated isomer is called isoapiole, and they are valuable as the chemical precurors to the amination product, DMMDA. Whereas both of these essential oils are white solids, there is a green oily liquid that had been broadly used years ago in medicine, called green, or liquid apiol (without the final "e"). It comes from the seeds of parsley by ether extraction, and when the chlorophyll has been removed, it is known as yellow apiol. With the fats removed by saponification and distillation, the old term for the medicine was apiolin. I would assume that any of these would give rise to white, crystalline apiole on careful distillation, but I have never tried to do it. The commercial Oil of Parsley is so readily available. 

Essential oils are usually derived from the non-seed parts of the plants with chemical composition other than the triglyceride structure of natural fats and oils. They refer to the subtle, aromatic liquids extracted from the flowers, seeds, leaves, stems, bark and roots of herbs, bushes, shrubs and trees through distillation. Essential oils are concentrated liquids containing volatile aromatic compounds. They are used in perfumery, aromatherapy, cosmetics, incense, medicine, household cleaning products and for flavouring food and drink. Their use in aromatherapy and other health care areas is growing. 

Liquid fuels are made from coal by reacting the coal with hydrogen gas under high pressure in the presence of catalysts (hydrogenating the coal). The process produces hydrocarbons like those in petroleum. The resulting crude oil type of material can be fractionally distilled to give fuel oil, gasoline, and certain hydrocarbons used in the manufacture of plastics, medicines, and other commodities. About 5.5 barrels of liquid are produced for each ton of coal. At the present time, the cost of a barrel of liquid from coal liquefaction is about double that of a barrel of crude oil. However, as petroleum supplies diminish and the cost of crude oil increases, coal liquefaction will become economically feasible. 

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