Tincture

This article is about alcoholic liquids. For the colors used in a coat of arms, see tincture (heraldry).

In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g. of a herb) or distillation, even when they did not include alcohol. Some examples that were formerly common in medicine include:

• Tincture of Benzoin
• Tincture of cantharides
• Tincture of ferric citrochloride (a Iron(III) chloride)
• Tincture of green soap (which also contains lavender)
• Tincture of guaiac
• Tincture of iodine
• Tincture of laudanum)
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