Rhizome - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34019 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Desmostachya bipinnata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rhizome | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Rhizome | Geography Description | India, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent | ||
| Uses | RhizomeUse: MEDICINES - Genitourinary System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Genitourinary System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 26 D 3 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This grass has a creeping root which forms at intervals a number of small, very hard knots or bulbs, from each of which rises a stem, and from the under surface of which numerous strong rootlets are given off. The culm is stout and round, c, lothed at the base with withered sheaths. In the drug it is cut off a few inches from the root. This article has a bitter taste. It is the gramina of the Portuguese at Goa, and is used as a diuretic. I have not seen it used medicinally in Bombay; but unde, r the names of Kash, Darbh or dad it is in constant requisition at the funeral cermonies of the Hindoos. The chief mourner wears a ring of grass upon his finger; it is also placed beneath the pinda's. Darbh must not be confounded with doorba (Cynodon dact, ylon) another grass which is sacred to Gunnesh. | ||||