Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41928 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 1.01 RANUNCULACEAE Coptis teeta | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | China, Asia Temperate | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 28 E 2 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum 1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Two distinct varieties of this drug are met with in the Bombay market. The kind most esteemed is yellowish rhizome as thick as a crow quill or larger, having a few spinous projections where rootlets have been broken off. The whole rhizome, is jointed, but at the upper end the joints become much more marked and a stem clasping petiole often remains attached to them. The second kind is as thick as a goose quill and covered with thin wiry rootlets. It often branches at the crown into two or, three heads, which terminate in a tuft of leaf stalks that are crowded together and never separate as in the first kind. The rhizomes of both are contorted and break with a short fracture. The centre is spongy and the surrounding portion bright yellow a, nd woody. Taste purely bitter. The first kind corresponds with the description of Coptis root in to Bengal Dispensatory, the second with the description of that drug in the Pharmacographia and with all the descriptions of Thalictrum foliolosum. The bar, k of the second kind is much the thickest, and is softer and more corky than that ot the first; in both bundles of orange coloured sclerenchymatous cells are present, and medullary rays contain starch. The wood is arranged in distinct wedge shaped bundle, s, round a central parenchymatous portion, having a structure similar to that ot the inner cortex. Both kinds of the drug come to Bombay, from China via Singapore in bulk. The first is worth 3 1/4 rupees per pound. The second 2 rupees. | ||||