* Orange ( heraldry ), a tincture used in heraldry

U. S. president William Henry Harrison was treated with opium in 1841, and in the American Civil War, the Union Army used 2. 8 million ounces of opium tincture and powder and about 500, 000 opium pills.

Scholars of the 19th century used chemical means to read palimpsests that were sometimes very destructive, using tincture of gall or later, ammonium bisulfate.

The terms laudanum and tincture of opium are generally interchangeable, but in contemporary medical practice the latter is used almost exclusively.

Opium tincture is used to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome ( NAS ) when diluted 1: 25 ( one part opium tincture to 25 parts water ).

A 25-fold morphine overdose may occur if opium tincture is used where paregoric is indicated.

The dried catkins, commonly referred to as hop cones, of the female plant of H. lupulus are used to prepare infusion of hop, tincture of hop, and extract of hop.

Internally, it is used for coughs and bronchitis, as a tea, tincture, or syrup.

*; Iodine: Usually used in an alcoholic solution ( called tincture of iodine ) or as Lugol's iodine solution as a pre-and post-operative antiseptic.

In herbalism, Calendula in suspension or in tincture is used topically for acne, reducing inflammation, controlling bleeding, and soothing irritated tissue.

In heraldry, purpure is a tincture, more or less the equivalent of the colour " purple ", and is one of the five main or most usually used colours ( as opposed to metals ).

Some practitioners use tincture of iodine which has been proven to cause more visible scarring ( this is why it's no longer used for treating minor wounds ).

In the 19th century Thuja was commonly used as an externally applied tincture or ointment for the treatment of warts, ringworm and thrush, and a local injection of the tincture was used for treating venereal warts.

* In Thailand and India, it is used to aid digestion and is smeared on the abdomen in an alcohol or water tincture known as mahahing.

Goldenrod has also been used as part of a tincture to aid in cleansing of the kidney or bladder during a healing fast, in conjunction with potassium broth and specific juices.

As both USP solutions contain elemental iodine, which is moderately toxic when ingested in amounts larger than those required to disinfect water, tincture of iodine is sold labelled " for external use only ," and used primarily as a disinfectant.

Nevertheless, the iodide in tincture of iodine used as a water disinfectant does supply more than adequate nutritional iodine, perhaps 30 or more times the recommended dietary allowance per liter or quart.

Although it increases both scar tissue formation and healing time, tincture of iodine is used as an antiseptic for skin cuts and scrapes, and remains among the most effective antiseptics known.

It is depicted in a lighter shade than the range of shades of the more traditional tincture azure, which is the standard blue used in heraldry.

He had already become famous for zeal and eloquence, and was the intimate friend of the Spaniard Juan de Valdés, of Pietro Bembo, Vittoria Colonna, Pietro Martire, Carnesecchi, and others destined to incur the suspicion of heresy, either from the moderation of their characters or from the evangelical tincture of their theology.

In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother " I never saw a part done so excellent in all my life, for in her acting she has all the simplicity of nature and not the least tincture of the theatrical ".

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.

In 1676 Sydenham published a seminal work, Medical Observations Concerning the History and Cure of Acute Diseases, in which he promoted his brand of opium tincture, and advocated its use for a range of medical conditions.

" tincture, for $ 9. 35 per pint ; ( 2 ) Opium, Camphorated Conc.

Opii Camphorated U. S. P ( Paregoric )" for $ 2. 00 per pint ; ( 3 ) Opium, Concentrated ( Deodorized and Denarcotized ) " Four times the strength of tincture, Used when Tinct.

Tincture: Liquid No. 338 " was " exactly 8 times the strength of Tincture Opium Camphorated ( Paregoric ) in original, U. S. P., " designed for preparing the tincture by direct dilution ," and cost $ 7 per pint.

Tincture: Liquid No. 336 ," was " four times the strength of the official tincture ," and " designed for the extemporaneous preparation of the tincture.

Bottles of opium tincture are required by the FDA to bear a bright red " POISON " label given the potency of the drug and the potential for overdose ( see discussion about confusion with Paregoric below ).

Since opium tincture is usually prescribed for its antidiarrheal and analgesic properties ( rather than as an antitussive ), opium tincture without narcotine is generally preferred.

Opium tincture is indicated for the treatment of severe fulminant diarrhea that does not respond to management.

In terminal diseases, there is no ceiling dose for opium tincture ; the dose is increased slowly until diarrhea is controlled.

Given its high concentration of morphine, opium tincture is useful for treating moderate to severe pain.

Further, opium tincture contains 17 % to 19 % alcohol, by volume, which may complicate its use as an analgesic in patients for whom alcohol is contraindicated.

Thus, an order for opium tincture containing directions in teaspoons is almost certainly in error.

To avoid this potentially fatal outcome, the term " camphorated tincture of opium " is avoided in place of paregoric since the former can easily be mistaken for opium tincture.

" Indeed, in 2005, labels for opium tincture began to include the concentration of morphine ( 10 mg / mL ) in large text beneath the words " Opium Tincture ".

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices recommends that opium tincture not be stocked at all in a pharmacy's inventory, and that " It may be time to relegate opium tincture and paregoric to the museum of outmoded opioid therapy.

" Despite the risk of confusion, opium tincture, like many end-stage medications, is indispensable for intractable diarrhea for terminally ill patients, such as those suffering from AIDS and cancer.

Opium tincture remains in the British Pharmacoepia, where it is referred to as Tincture of Opium, B. P., Laudanum, Thebaic Tincture, or Tinctura Thebaica, and " adjusted to contain 1 % w / v of anhydrous morphine.

Several historical varieties of laudanum exist, including Paracelsus ' laudanum, Sydenham's Laudanum ( also known as tinctura opii crocata ), benzoic laudanum ( tinctura opii benzoica ), and deodorized tincture of opium ( the most common contemporary formulation ), among others.

Opium tincture is one of the most potent oral formulations of morphine available by prescription.

In Polish heraldry, gules is the most common tincture of the field.

One of those young women had the whole body painted, from bottom to top with that tincture, and sure she was so good shaped and so rounded, and her private part so graceful that most women in our land, if had seen those features would feel abashed for not having their own like she has hers.