Diapenidon
or Diapenidon Frigidum
Sugar Penids (without Spices)
or Cooling Sugar Penids
Tradition:
Western, Unani
Source / Author:
Nicholas Myrepsus
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Herb Name |
Latin |
Amount |
|---|---|---|
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Sugar Penids (see below) |
2 oz. | |
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Nux Pinea | ||
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Prunus amygdalus dulcis | ||
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Papaver somniferum |
3 dr., 1 scr. ea. | |
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Succus Glycyrrhiza | ||
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Acacia arabica | ||
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Astragalus tragacanth | ||
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Amylum | ||
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Citrullus vulgaris | ||
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Lagenaria vulgaris | ||
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Cucurbita pepo | ||
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Cucumis sativus |
1 1⁄2 drams ea. | |
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Camphora |
7 grains |
Preparation:
Powder.
To make into an electuary, see Sugar Penid with Spices.
Sugar Penids are prepared as follows:
Dissolve Sugar in Barley water and boil gently down to a semi-solid Electuary.
Sugar is to be covered with strong Barley water in a large pot. They are heated to dissolve the Sugar, then gently boiled down to a suitable thickness, stirring, and removing the scum as it arises. When ready, it is removed from the heat, cooled a little, then poured onto an oiled marble slab. It is kneaded, folded, and stretched until white. The mass, when cool, should be stiff enough to be picked up without sticking to the fingers, but soft enough to be easily cut or moulded into forms.
Function:
Strengthen the Lungs, Stops Cough, Clears Phlegm, Benefits Lung Yin
Use:
“good for every disease of the Lungs and Cough: and the Hoarseness of the voice caused by dryness” (Nicholas, Antidotarium)
1. Cough
2. Sore Throat
3. Hoarseness
4. Asthma
5. Difficulty Breathing
6. Pleurisy
7. Consumption
Dose:
1⁄2–2 drams, taken with Licorice Syrup, or decoction of Licorice, Hyssop or Raisins.
Cautions:
None noted
Modifications:
1. When Ginger, Clove and Cinnamon are added, it is called Sugar Penids with Spices, and has the same effect, but is more warming, and better for Cold Phlegm that is hard to clear, and for Lung weakness with Cold Phlegm.
Similar Formulas:
Tragacanth Cooling Powder (Diatragacanthum Frigidum)
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This is better to Nourish Lung Yin, that with Spices clears Cold Phlegm while strengthening Lung Qi and Yin.
“It helps the vices of the breast, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, and Consumptions of the Lungs, as also such as spit matter”. (Culpeper)
Diapenidion is made either without species, as in this form, or with them; when Cinnamon, Cloves, and Ginger, are added thereto, as Myrepsus its Author describes it, and the said species Almonds, Poppy seed, and Liquorice-juice are put in equal weight.
It is kept either in form of a Powder, or of a solid Electuary; which, by the Authors advice, may be thus made: Three ounces of Violets must be macerated and cocted in a pound of water; till the water be of a violaceous colour, one pound of Sugar must be cocted. in the colature, to the consistence of a solid Electuary; wherewith, whilst hot, the Penides, and other levigated simples, must be so mixed and subacted, that the mass may acquire a solid form whereof tablets or Rhomboides may be concinnated and reposed for use. All with one consent confect Penides thus, but few agree in the proportion of the simples; for each one changes their weight; this we have delivered is the most usual form.
This Powder conduces very much to those that are infested with a Cough, Pleurisy, difficulty of Breathing, asperity of Jaws, hoarseness, and many vices of the Lungs. If it be made with the species, besides the enumerated effects, it also incides, attenuates, and cocts viscid, crass, and cold humours, preparing them for expectoration”. (A Medicinal Dispensatory, Renou, 1657)