Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Readily available in pharmacies; not requiring special preparation.
- adjective Recognized by a pharmacopoeia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a shop or laboratory; used in a shop or laboratory. Especially
- Of an apothecary's shop: applied in pharmacy to preparations made according to recognized prescriptions; specifically, prescribed in the pharmacopœia.
- In botany, used in medicine or the arts.
- noun A drug or medicine sold in an apothecary's shop; specifically, a drug prepared according to the pharmacopœia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or R. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
- adjective (Pharm.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not
magistral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Medicinal . - adjective obsolete, rare Used in a
shop , or belonging to it. - adjective obsolete Kept in stock by
apothecaries ; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; notmagistral .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An officinal tincture is made from the rhizome of Valerian with spirit of wine, of which from one to two teaspoonfuls may be given for a dose, with a little water.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The officinal part of the plant is the fruit, which consists of two united carpels, called a cremocarp.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Syrup of tar is an officinal medicine in the United States of America for chronic bronchitis, and winter cough.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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An officinal tincture (_Tinctura anthemidis_) is made from the flowers of the true Chamomile (_Anthemis nobilis_) with rectified spirit of wine.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Across the Atlantic an officinal tincture is made from the Tomato for curative purposes by treating the apples, and the bruised fresh plant with alcohol, and letting this stand for eight days before it is filtered and strained.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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[485] Our druggists supply an officinal tincture of Colchicum
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Now we have for commercial and officinal purposes two varieties of the cultivated plant, the black Mustard (_Sinapis nigra_), and the white Mustard (_Brassica_, or _Sinapis alba_).
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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An officinal tincture is made from the plants collected in the spring, when two years old; also, in some villages the infusion is employed as a homely remedy to cure a cold, the herb being known as "Throttle Wort;" but this is not a safe thing to do, for medical experience shows that the watery infusion of
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The dose of the authorised officinal juice is from one to two teaspoonfuls, and from five to twenty grains of the prepared extract.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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These, not being officinal, fail to find a place on the shelves of the ordinary Pharmaceutical druggist.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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