Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45987 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 127.00 PLANTAGINACEAE Plantago psyllium | Entry Book Number | 105.1851 | |
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| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
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| Uses | SeedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Lawson's Collection | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Note stuck on back of previous jar: Dymock - Pharm Journal. Plantago psyllium, local name Bartung. Minute, oblong, brown seeds marked with waved, slightly elevated, longitudinal ridges of a darker colour; one side of the seed arched, the ot, her concave, and marked with a scar showing the attachment to the ovary. They are insipid, and have an oily smell when crushed. Soaked in water they become coated with a transparent mucilage. Bartung, usually pronounced Barhang, is a remedy of great reput, e in Persia for dysentry. A large quantity is imported into India through Bombay. We have the evidence of Valentine Baker as to its efficiency when he suffered from the above mentioned disorders during his travels in Khorasan. When dysentry is supposed by, the Hakeens to be due to a heated condition of the humours, Ispaghool (Plantago ispaghula) is preferred. When a cold condition is diagnosed Bartung is given. The Arabs call it Lisan ul hamal, (kids or fawns tongue) from a supposed resemblance of the leav, es to the tongues of these animals. P.psyllium L. nomen confusum. | ||||
| Determinations: | 127.00 PLANTAGINACEAE Plantago psyllium L. 127.00 PLANTAGINACEAE Plantago afra L. | ||||