Name: Alterative or Liver Powder
Ingredients: 10 grains podophyllum; 10 grains sanguinaria; 20 grains leptandrin; 40 grains white sugar

Alterative or Liver Powder

Ingredients

10 grains podophyllum
10 grains sanguinaria
20 grains leptandrin
40 grains white sugar

Directions

Mix all ingredients together.
Divide the mixture into 20 equal powders.
Take one powder twice a day, morning and night.
If it causes too much bowel movement, reduce to one powder per day.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Alterative or Liver Powder