Formula:
Acacia (granular or powdered) 100g
Sodium benzoate 1g
Vanilla tincture 5ml
Sucrose 800g
Purified Water QS ______
To make 1000ml
Preparation:
Add 425ml of purified water to the mixed acacia, sodium benzoate and sucrose and mix well. Heat on a steam bath until solution is completed. Cool, remove the scum, add the vanilla tincture and sufficient quantity of purified water to make 1000ml. Strain if necessary.
Uses: Flavored vehicle and demulcent.
Citric Acid Syrup
Synonym: Syrup of Lemon
Formula:
Lemon Tincture 10ml
Citric Acid, Hydrous 10g
Purified Water, QS ______
To make 1000ml
Preparation:
Dissolve the citric acid in purified water, add 950ml of syrup followed by the tincture and complete the volume and mix.
Use:
Pleasant vehicle with a flavor of lemon making it possible to have a syrup at all seasons of the year with flavor of lemon.
Cocoa Syrup
Synonyms: Cacao Syrup or Chocolate Flavored Syrup
Formula:
Cocoa 180mg
Sucrose 600mg
Liquid Glucose 180mg
Glycerin 50ml
Sodium Chloride 2g
Vanillin 0.2g
Sodium Benzoate 1g
Purified Water, QS ________
To make 1000 ml
Preparation:
To the mixed cocoa and sucrose add a solution of the liquid glucose, glycerin sodium chloride, vanillin and sodium benzoate in 325ml of hot purified water. Boil for 3 min. Allow to cool at room temperature and make the volume 1000ml.
Use: Pleasant flavored vehicle, not to be used for patients who dislikes or are allergic to it.
Ephedrine Sulfate Syrup
Synonyms: Syrupus Ephedriane Sulfatis
Formula:
Ephedrine Sulfate 4g
Citric Acid 1g
Amaranth Solution 4ml
Caramel 0.4g
Lemon Oil 0.125ml
Orange Oil 0.25ml
Benzaldehyde 0.06ml
Vanillin 0.016g
Alcohol 25ml
Sucrose 800g
Purified Water, qs __________
To make 1000ml
Preparation: In 450ml of purified water dissolve the ephedrine sulfate, citric acid and the caramel, add the lemon oil, orange oil, benzaldehyde and vanilline previously dissolved in alcohol. Then add the amaranth solution and sucrose; agitate to dissolve and finally add sufficient quantity of purified water to make 1000ml.
Uses: Sympathomimetic - powerful central nervous system stimulant such as in narcolepsy and in the therapy of poisoning by the central nervous system depressants. It is of value in myasthenia gravis, portural hypotension, shock and heartblock.
Ipecac Syrup
Formula:
Powdered Ipecac 70g
Glycerin 100ml
Syrup, qs ________
To make 1000ml
Preparation:
Percolate the powdered ipecac until exhausted using as menstruum a mixture of 3 volumes of alcohol and 1 volume of water, macerate for 72 hours and percolate slowly. Evaporate the percolate to 70ml at a temperature not exceeding 60o C and preferably in vacuum and add 140ml of water. Allow the mixture to stand overnight and filter and wash the residue on the filter with water. Evaporate the filtrate and washings to 40ml and add to this 2.5 ml of hydrochloric acid and 20ml of alcohol, 3.5 volumes of HCl and 66.5 volumes of water using a volume sufficient to produce 70ml of filtrate. Add 100ml of glycerin and sufficient quantity of syrup to make 1000ml and mix.
Uses:
Emetic and nauseant expectorant. Chosen emetic in an oral dose of 20ml in the management of poisoning in children; wherein evacuation of the stomach contents is desirable and not specifically contraindicated. Approximately 80% of children given this dose of the syrup will vomit within 30min - valuable in croupous bronchitis in children the dose being 5 drops for the first year of age and one additional drop for each additional year.
Dose: Emetic, adults 10 to 30ml; children 10-15ml; usual adults, 15ml; usual children, 10ml.
Senna Syrup
Formula:
Senna Fluidextract 250ml
Coriander Oil 5ml
Sucrose 635g
Purified Water, qs ________
To make 1000ml
Preparation:
Mix the coriander oil with fluidextract and add 330ml of purified water and allow the mixture to stand for 24 hours in a cool place with occasional agitation. Filter and pass sufficient quantity of purified water through the filter to obtain 580ml of filtrate. Dissolve the sucrose in this liquid and add sufficient quantity of purified ware to make 1000ml. Mix and strain.
Uses:
Cathartic causing a single thorough evacuation of the bowels within 6 hours after administration. Action is accompanied with griping.
Syrup USP
Synonyms: Simple Syrup
Formula:
Sucrose 850g
Purified Water, qs ______
To make 1000ml
Preparation:
Syrup may be prepared by using boiling water or preferably without heat by percolation.
By percolation - Moisten with a few drops of water the pledget of cotton plugged into the neck of the percolator. Place the sucrose in the percolator and add 450ml of purified water, regulate the flow to a steady drip of percolate, return the percolate, if necessary until all the sucrose has dissolved. Washed the inside of the percolator and the cotton with sufficient quantity of purified water to make the percolate measure 1000ml and mix.
Uses: Sweet vehicle, sweetening agent, excipient in pills, and as basis for many flavored and medicated syrups.
Tolu Balsam Syrup
Synonyms: Syrup of Tolu; Tolu Syrup
Formula:
Tolu Balsam Tincture 50ml
Magnesium Carbonate 10g
Sucrose 820g
Purified Water, qs _____
To make 1000ml
Preparation: Triturate the tincture, magnesium carbonate and 60g of sucrose in a mortar. Gradually add 430ml of purified water in trituration filter and dissolve the remaining sucrose in the clear filtrate with gentle heating, strain while warm and add sufficient quantity of purified water to make 1000ml and mix.
It may be prepare by placing the remaining 760g of sucrose in a percolator (which is plugged at the neck with cotton and moistened with a few drops of water). Pour the filtrate obtained as directed in the above formula upon the sucrose and regulate the outflow to a steady drip of percolate when all liquid has run through, return portions of the percolate if necessary to dissolve all the sucrose. Pass sufficient quantity of purified ware through the cotton to make 1000ml and mix.
Use: Flavor in cough syrups in doses of 10ml.
