Avery Barns
New member
Yesterday , after having an irritating little cough for a few days , I went to the nearest pharmacy in a city I usually never go to. I asked for a bottle of cough syrup , the brand I sometimes het. He didn't have any and said he had a home made preparation. I said .. sure , and that was that.
Today I checked the ingredients in the thing , thinking it was going to be pholcodine or dxm , i was somewhat taken aback by what I bought .
Let me list the ingredients . It's a 200 ML bottle .
120 mg Benzoic acid. (seems normal to me)
200 mg Codeine (still normal for cough syrup though a bit dated as an ingredient and a bit much)
200 mg Ethylmorphine (huh ... two types of cough supressant , this one even more archaic)
1200 mg Aconiettincture (I had to look this one up , never heard of it , i couldn't really make out what it does either )
1200 mg Belladonatincture (Belladonna ?? what is this witchcraft ? )
4000 mg Ethanol (A little alcohol is very normal in a cough syrup I would say)
10 gram water
20 gram glycerol
Rest sugar water.
This is over the counter stuff !! It can probably cure any kind of cough , remove curses and kill rats ! Is the amount of codeine and the presence of ethyl morphine not a bit much for over the counter ?
I'm not very comfortable with the Belladonna , Aconiet and frankly the Ethylmorphine .. (in wikipedia it's said a dosage of 500 mg can be lethal. It's not that ive taken more than 2 spoonfulls of the stuff yesterday , but still)
Anyone have any thoughts on this ?
@Tabby
It's a licensed pharmacy , it was a somewhat classic building though , very regular , the stuff was in a nice blue package as well. No doubt it's "legal" . It just seems a bit overwhelming for cough syrup.
Today I checked the ingredients in the thing , thinking it was going to be pholcodine or dxm , i was somewhat taken aback by what I bought .
Let me list the ingredients . It's a 200 ML bottle .
120 mg Benzoic acid. (seems normal to me)
200 mg Codeine (still normal for cough syrup though a bit dated as an ingredient and a bit much)
200 mg Ethylmorphine (huh ... two types of cough supressant , this one even more archaic)
1200 mg Aconiettincture (I had to look this one up , never heard of it , i couldn't really make out what it does either )
1200 mg Belladonatincture (Belladonna ?? what is this witchcraft ? )
4000 mg Ethanol (A little alcohol is very normal in a cough syrup I would say)
10 gram water
20 gram glycerol
Rest sugar water.
This is over the counter stuff !! It can probably cure any kind of cough , remove curses and kill rats ! Is the amount of codeine and the presence of ethyl morphine not a bit much for over the counter ?
I'm not very comfortable with the Belladonna , Aconiet and frankly the Ethylmorphine .. (in wikipedia it's said a dosage of 500 mg can be lethal. It's not that ive taken more than 2 spoonfulls of the stuff yesterday , but still)
Anyone have any thoughts on this ?
@Tabby
It's a licensed pharmacy , it was a somewhat classic building though , very regular , the stuff was in a nice blue package as well. No doubt it's "legal" . It just seems a bit overwhelming for cough syrup.