Thus prepared, matico syrup is brownish, limpid and of an aromatic taste, which is not disagreeable; it contains all the principles, active, volatile or fixed, of the substance.
It may be administered pure, or diluted with water. It is one of the easiest and most efficacious modes of administering matico in cases of internal hemorrhage or of flour albus.
It represents 1-10 of its weight of matico. The spoonful being 30 grammes, would represent 2 grammes; the tea-spoonful being 5 grammes, would represent 1⁄2 gramme.
MATICO PILLS.
| Powdered matico, | 20 grammes. |
| Powdered marsh mallow | 2 grammes. |
| Syrup of gum, | Q. S. |
Make secundum artem 100 pills rolled in lycopodium. They are of a dark green. The weight of each pill from 40 to 50 centigrammes, each containing 20 centigrammes of matico, give from 2 to 25 daily.
EXTRACT OF MATICO PILLS.
Divide secundum artem into 100 pills, which will each contain 10 centigrammes. They are blackish. Being smaller they possess the advantage of being more easily swallowed.
OINTMENT OF EXTRACT OF MATICO.
| Extract of matico, | 5 grammes. |
| Weak alcohol, | 5 grammes. |
| Lard, | 20 grammes. |