Translation of 'Mustard spoon' ?

[Donald Loewen]

Thanks to all for your responses -- it must be a slow day on SEELANGS if 
obscure measuring implements dominate the discussion!  I do appreciate 
the clarifications, since none of my traditional sources for answers to 
this type of question could help.  In this instance the spoon is being 
used to measure some kind of traditional herbal medicine (i.e. dried but 
not powdered), with the choice being to measure out ca. 20 mg. or 1/4 of 
a gorchichnaia lozhka, so it seems they're mixing weight and volume.  
Thankfully it's not anything that I have to take, or provide specific 
dosage for!
With best wishes to all,
Don Loewen
>> tion of "gorchichnaia lozhka,"  a
>> term that seems to be used to measure tiny qualities of medicines?
>> (one-quarter of these seems to be about 1/100th of a teaspoon!)
>> Thanks for any help, onlist or off.
>> Don Loewen
>>     
>
> Provisional answer:
>
> I would refer to the item as "mustard spoonful" (gorchichnaya lozhechka).
> I'm not sure of its use in medicine, but in cooking I believe it may be 200
> milligrams. Cf. that with "travyanaya lozhechka" = 50 milligrams. Could the
> measures be the same in medicine?
>
> I stress the provisional nature of this reply.
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