Extractum Stillingiae Fluidum Compositum (N. F.)—Compound Fluid Extract of Stillingia.
Related entry: Stillingia (U. S. P.)—Stillingia - Extract of Stillingia. - Fluid Extract of Stillingia.
Preparation.—Formulary number, 176: "Stillingia, two hundred and fifty grammes (250 Gm.) [8 ozs. av., 358 grs.]; corydalis (root), two hundred and fifty grammes (250 Gm.) [8 ozs. av., 358 grs.]; iris, one hundred and twenty-five grammes (125 Gm.) [4 ozs. av., 179 grs.]; sambucus, one hundred and twenty-five grammes (125 Gm.) [4 ozs. av., 179 grs.]; chimaphila, one hundred and twenty-five grammes (125 Gm.) [4 ozs. av., 179 grs.]; coriander, sixty-five grammes (65 Gm.) [2 ozs. av., 128 grs.]; xanthoxylum berries, sixty grammes (60 Gm.) [2 ozs. av., 51 grs.]. Reduce the drugs to a moderately coarse (No. 40) powder, and prepare a fluid extract in the usual manner by the process and menstrua below mentioned: Process B (see F. 135). Menstruum I: Alcohol, five hundred cubic centimeters (500 Cc.) [16 fl℥, 435♏︎]; glycerin, two hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (250 Cc.) [3 fl℥, 218♏︎]; water, two hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (250 Cc.) [8 fl℥, 218♏︎]. Menstruum II: Diluted alcohol"—(Nat. Form.).
Medical Uses and Dosage.—Chiefly employed as an alterative in scrofula, syphilis, rheumatism, and allied disorders. Dose, 10 to 60 minims.
