Pilulae Aloes. Pills of Aloes. Pilulae Aloes et Asafoetidae. Pill of Aloes and Asafetida. Pilulae Aloes e
Pilulae Aloes. U. S. (Br.)
Pills of Aloes. Pil. Aloes.
Related entry: Aloe
Pilula Aloes, Br.; Aloes Pill; Pill of Barbados Aloes, Pill of Socotrine Aloes; Pilules d'Aloes et de Savon, Fr. Cod.; Pilules Aloetiques Savoneuses, Fr.; Aloepillen, G.
"Aloes, in fine powder, thirteen grammes [or 201 grains]; Soap, in fine powder, thirteen grammes [or 201 grains]; Water, a sufficient quantity, to make one hundred pills. Mix the powders intimately, then incorporate sufficient water to form a mass, and divide it into one hundred pills." U. S.
"Aloes, in powder, 58 grammes; Hard Soap, in powder, 29 grammes; Oil of Caraway, 3 millilitres; Syrup of Glucose, 10 grammes or a sufficient quantity. Mix to form a mass." Br.
In the Br. Pharm., 1898, confection of rose was used as the excipient. It is now replaced by syrup of glucose.
The former British process for Pill of Socotrine Aloes was the same except that Socotrine was substituted for Barbados Aloes, and the volatile Oil of Nutmeg for Oil of Caraway.
The soap, in this formula, not only serves to impart a proper consistence to the aloes, but is thought to qualify its operation and diminish its liability to irritate the rectum. Five of the U. S. pills, containing ten grains (0.65 Gm.) of aloes, may be given with a view to their purgative effect, but the preparation is usually employed as a laxative in habitual costiveness.
Dose, one, two or three pills at bedtime. The British pill mass is of very nearly the same strength as that of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.
Pilula Aloes et Asafoetidae. Br.
Pill of Aloes and Asafetida
Related entry: Asafetida
Pilulae Aloes et Asafoetidae, N. F.; Pilules d'Aloes ct d'Asefetide, Fr.; Aloe und Asfoetida-Pillen, G.
A process for these pills was not retained in the U. S. P. IX, but are recognized by the N. F. IV (see Part III); the British process is as follows:
Aloes, in powder, 30 grammes; Asafetida, 30 grammes; Hard Soap, in powder, 30 grammes; Syrup of Glucose, 10 grammes, or a sufficient quantity. Mix to form a mass." Br.
In the Br. Pharm., 1898, confection of rose was used as the excipient. It is now replaced by syrup of glucose.
Pills made from this mass are peculiarly adapted, by the stimulant and carminative properties of the asafetida, to cases of costiveness attended with flatulence and debility of the digestive organs.
Dose, about four grains (0.26 Gm.) of the mass.
Pilula Aloes et Ferri. Br.
Pill of Aloes and Iron
Pilulae Aloes et Ferri, N. F.; Pilulae Italicae Nigrae; Pilules d'Aloes et de Fer, Fr.; Pilulae Aloeticae ferratae, P. G.; Eisenhaltige Aloepillen, Aloe und Eisenpillen, Italienische Pillen, G.,
"Exsiccated Ferrous Sulphate, 10 grammes; Aloes, in powder, 20 grammes; Compound Powder of Cinnamon, 35 grammes; Syrup of Glucose, 35 grammes, or a sufficient quantity. Mix to form a mass." Br.
These pills were deleted from the U. S. P. IX, but were introduced without change into the N. F. IV.
This pill differs from the preparation of the same name in the British Pharmacopoeia in the substitution of aromatic powder for the compound powder of cinnamon. It is essentially an old preparation of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, was omitted in the original British, and reintroduced and continued in the present edition. The Br. Pharm., 1898, improved this mass by substituting exsiccated ferrous sulphate for the crystallized salt formerly employed, and by the use of syrup of glucose instead of confection of rose. It is said that the laxative power of aloes is increased, and its tendency to irritate the rectum diminished, by combination with ferrous sulphate. This pill is especially adapted to amenorrhea with debility of the stomach and constipation.
Dose, of the Br. mass, from three to eight grains (0.2-0.5 Gm.); of the N. F. pills, from one to three pills.
Pilula Aloes et Myrrhae. Br.
Pill of Aloes and Myrrh
Related entry: Myrrha
Pilulae Aloes et Myrrhae, N. F., Rufus's Pills; Pilule d'Aloes et de Myrrhe, Pilules de Rufus, Fr.; Rufussche Pillen, G.
"Aloes, in powder, 44 grammes; Myrrh, in powder, 22 grammes; Syrup of glucose, 34 grammes, or a sufficient quantity. Mix to form a mass." Br.
These pills were deleted from the U. S. P. IX, but were introduced without change into the N. F. IV.
This composition has been long in use, under the name of Rufus's Pills. It is employed, as a warm stimulant cathartic, in general debility attended with constipation, and in retention or suppression of the menses.
Dose, of the Br. mass, from four to eight grains (0.26-0.5 Gm.); of the N. F. pills, three to six pills.
