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词条 Aqua omnium florum
释义

  1. Urina vaccina

  2. Indian traditional medicine

  3. See also

  4. References

Aqua omnium florum or all-flower water was water distilled from cow-dung in May, when the cows ate fresh grass with meadow flowers. It was also known less euphemistically as aqua stercoris vaccini stillatitia (distilled water of cow dung).[1] This was used as a medicine to treat a variety of ailments including gout, rheumatism and tuberculosis.[2][3]

The 17th century court physician George Bate favoured it and it appeared in the Pharmacopœia BateanaBate's Dispensatory.[4] Recipes included:[2]

{{quote|cow dung, gathered in May, adding to it a third of white wine and then distilled}}{{quote|fresh cow-dung and snails with their shells bruised equal parts, mix and distill in a common still}}{{quote|℞ Fresh cow dung gathered in the morning; spring or rain water; mix and digest twenty-four hours, let it settle, and then decant the clear brown tincture.}}

The latter prescription was used as a panacea by a female doctor in Bate's time. Many incurable cases were brought to her which she treated in this way and she made a great fortune of £20,000 from this practice.[2]

Urina vaccina

Cow tea or urina vaccina (cow's urine) was sometimes called aqua omnium florum too.[1] This was used as a purgative for which the dosage would be "half a pint drank warm from the cow".[5] It was drunk by women in May to clear their complexion.[1]

Indian traditional medicine

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Cow dung, urine and other bovine products are still used extensively in the traditional Hindu medicine, Ayurveda.[6]

See also

  • Compost tea
  • beef tea
  • Mycobacterium vaccae

References

1. ^{{citation |title=Lectures on the Materia Medica |publisher=Edward Dilly |year=1770 |author=Charles Alston |volume=Vol. 2 |number=Lecture 82 |page=551}}
2. ^{{citation |title=On the New Pharmacopœia |author=T. Laycock |year=1858 |journal=The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions |pages=312–313 |volume=Vol. XVIII}}
3. ^{{citation |page=310 |title=A Supplement to the Pharmacopœia |author=Samuel Frederick Gray |publisher=Thomas and George Underwood |year=1821}}
4. ^{{citation |title=Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports |page=299 |year=1884}}
5. ^{{citation |chapter=Animal Secretions and Excretions |page=179 |title=A Supplement to the Pharmacopœia and Treatise on Pharmacology in General |author=Samuel Frederick Gray |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman |year=1836 |edition=6th}}
6. ^{{citation |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1485776/Cow-dung-becomes-a-cure-all-in-India.html |title=Cow dung becomes a cure-all in India |newspaper=Daily Telegraph | author=Rahul Bedi |date=16 Mar 2005}}
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