Tinctura Buchu. Br. Tincture of Buchu.

Related entries: Buchu

Teinture (alcoole) de Buchu, Fr. Cod,; Teinture de Bucco, Fr.; Buchutinktur, G.

"Buchu Leaves, in No. 20 powder, 200 grammes; Alcohol (60 per cent.) sufficient to produce, 1000 millilitres. Moisten the powder with two hundred millilitres of the Alcohol, and complete the percolation process." Br.

This tincture has the virtues of buchu leaves.

Dose, from one to two fluidrachms (3.75-7.5 mils), either simply diluted with water or as an addition to the infusion of the leaves.


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.