Tincture Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g. of an herb) or solution of a nonvolatile substance (e.g. of iodine, mercurochrome.) Solutions of volatile substances were called spirits. Some examples that were formerly common in medicine include:- tincture of benzoin
- tincture of cantharides
- tincture of ferric citrochloride (a chelate of citric acid and ferric chloride)
- tincture of green soap (which also contains lavender)
- tincture of guaiac
- tincture of iodine
- tincture of opium (laudanum)
- camphorated opium tincture (paregoric)
- spirit of ammonia (also called spirit of hartshorn)
- spirit of camphor
- "spirit of nitre" is not a spirit in this sense, but an old name for nitric acid
- similarly "spirit of vinegar" actually meant glacial acetic acid
In heraldry, the tinctures are the colors used in a coat of arms: see tincture (heraldry).
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