Action and Uses: Develops irritant volatile oil on contact with water; frequently mixed with black mustard in powder for use as ground mustard.
Dosage: Emetic, 10 Gm. or 2-1/2 drachms (U.S.P.).
*Sinapis Nigra (Sinap. Nig.), Black Mustard, U.S.P. (Brown Mustard).—Ripe seeds.
Action and Uses: See Oleum Sinapis Volatile.
Dosage: Emetic, 10 Gm. or 2-1/2 drachms (U.S.P.).
*Emplastrum Sinapis (Emp. Sinap.), Mustard Plaster, U.S.P. (Charta Sinapis, U.S.P. VIII, Mustard Paper).—A mixture of black mustard, deprived of its fixed oil, and a solution of rubber, spread on paper, cotton cloth or other fabric.
Uses: Counterirritant.
Soda Chlorinata, Chlorinated Soda.
Action and Uses: Hypochlorites in acid, alkaline and neutral solutions have been found useful in the treatment of infected wounds. The alkaline solution is represented by the Liquor Sodae Chlorinatae below, and by the Liquor Potassae Chlorinatae, which see under Potassa Chlorinata.
*Liquor Sodae Chlorinatae (Liq. Sod. Chlorinat.), Solution of Chlorinated Soda, U.S.P. (Labarraque’s Solution).—Chlorine compounds of sodium containing not less than 2.5 per cent. available Cl.