Tinctures, medicinal

REBIS — Man and Wife, body and soul, the first stage of the operation clean subtle Sand which adheres to Mercury doubly-mingled Seed is called Rebis it is also Ferment and Elixir, Medicine, Tincture a twice-composed substance, says Senior. 

Medicinal tinctures are solutions involving an animal, vegetable, or chemical substance or extract dissolved in alcohol or alcohol and water. For example, tincture of iodine is a preparation of iodine and sodium iodide in diluted ethanol used as a topical anti-infective. 

There are many ways of preparing herbal medicines. Tinctures and elixirs are extractions of herbs using some solvent, usually ethanol. If a plant is extracted with acetic acid, the solution is known as a vinegar, even though the solvent is also vinegar. A tisane uses hot water to extract herbs—like tea. 

Medical Usage. Isopropyl alcohol is also used as an antiseptic and disinfectant for home, hospital, and industry (see Disinfectants and antiseptics). It is about twice as effective as ethyl alcohol in these appHcations (153,154). Rubbing alcohol, a popular 70 vol % isopropyl alcohol-in-water mixture, exemplifies the medicinal use of isopropyl alcohol. Other examples include 30 vol % isopropyl alcohol solutions for medicinal liniments, tinctures of green soap, scalp tonics, and tincture of mercurophen. It is contained in pharmaceuticals, eg, local anesthetics, tincture of iodine, and bathing solutions for surgical sutures and dressings. Over 200 uses of isopropyl alcohol have been tabulated (2). 

There is a sufficient degree of dilution to guarantee the safety of the medicinal product (not more than one in 10000 of the mother tincture or 1/lOOth of the smallest dose requiring a medical prescription for an allopathic medicinal product). 

Nonetheless, the few potent alchemical medicines that he did advocate reveal his unorthodox religious views. At the heart of Fludd s alchemy is the recipe for a red elixir which he described as being a catholic, that is, a universal medicine. It was the quintessence of both Nature and of the human soul, being permeated by the Holy Spirit of the resurrected Christ." It was said to be the alchemical equivalent of human blood, a tincture extracted from the red-oil of wheat. 

A serious problem in the early Western medicinal use of C. sativa, mainly as a tincture, was its highly variable activity and inconsistent results. Medicinal preparations have to handle several particularities due to the structure of the active ingredients of C. sativa. The identity of the main active constituent of C. sativa, A9-tetrahydrocannabinol (INN dronabinol) remained unknown until 1964 [128] standardized C. sativa preparations were not available. The plant itself is found in several different chemotypes, which added to the unpredictable nature of early medicinal preparations. 

Therapeutic properties of herbs have been known for many years. They were once used in folk medicine, but recently herb therapy has become popular again. It is known that widely nsed herbal infnsions or tinctures contain a wide spectrum of compounds ranguig from very important pharmacologically active ones to those with small or sometimes undesirable activity. 

Bacon, Roger. "Of the medicine or tincture of alchemy." In Of natural and supernatural things, ed. Basil Valentine, 152-181. London , 1671. 

Glauber, Johann Rudolf. A short book of dialogues, or, (certain colloquies) of some studious searchers after the Hermetick Medicine and Universal Tincture. [http //www.levitv.com/alchemv/glauberhtml1. 

Magisteries, Elixirs, c. Together with his Books Of Renovation Restauration. Of the Tincture of the Philosophers. Of the Manual of the Philosophical Medicinal Stone. Of the Virtues of the Members. Of the Three Principles. And Finally his Seven Books, Of the Degrees and Compositions of Receipts, and Natural Things. Faithfully and plainly Englished, and Published by, J.H. Oxon. London, Printed for W.S. and are to be sold by Thomas Brewster at the Three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard. 1660."... 

Junius, Manfred M. The practical handbook of plant alchemy an herbalists s guide to preparing medicinal essences, tinctures, and elixirs. Rochester (VT) Healing Arts P, 1993. ix, 262 p. ISBN 0-89281-485-3... 

In the Asia-Pacific region, AItingia excelsa Noronha (Liquidambar altingiana Bl.), Alan-gia gracilipes Hemsl. (Amyris ambrosiaca L.f.), Liquidambar orientalis Mill, and Liquidambar formosana Hance are of medicinal value. The purified basalm obtained from the trunk of Liquidambar orientalis Mill, or prepared storax (British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1969) has been used similarly as Peru basalm in the form of an ointment to treat scabies and other skin diseases, and as an ingredient of Compound Benzoin Tincture. 

The universal medicine is an actual physical substance, produced by alchemical Sages from their own physical bodies. High adepts may entrust the elixir to students, but, of course, the students cannot reproduce it. In appearance, the universal medicine looks like red powder, often referred to as the red tincture, since it permeates all it touches. I had the privilege of guarding the tincture for a period of time. It was produced by a great alchemical Adept of the 20th century. 

Syrups These are made by combining tinctures or medicinal liquors with honey or glycerin. 

Worked Example 3.6. An old medicine bottle is discovered that once contained tincture of iodine. The bottle still contains a trace of solid iodine. Some of the solid is dissolved in an aqueous solution of potassium iodide of concentration 0.1 mol dm . The electrode potential of the I2,1 couple was determined at a platinum electrode immersed in the solution. If = —0.54 V and i,i for the resultant solution is —0.60 V, what is the concentration of the iodine Ignore the presence of the brown 13 ion. 

Arnica has been used for medicinal purposes. It can be applied topically as a cream, ointment, liniment, salve or tincture, to soothe muscle aches, reduce inflammation and heal wounds. It is often used for injuries such as sprains and bruises. Arnica is primarily restricted to topical (external) use because it can... 

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