Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47019 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 128.00 NYCTAGINACEAE Boerhaavia diffusa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 14 G 8 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Common creeping weed on waste ground and road sides, stalks numerous, about 2 ft long slender, procumbent, leaves cordate ovate, unequal, opposite edges waved, flowers small, pink, sessile on the apex of the pedicel, peduncles from the axil, s and ends of the branches, fruit oblong, dull green or brownish, viscid, about the size of a carraway seed, longitudinally 5 grooved studded all over with glandular hairs, root twisted, often as thick as the finger, when fresh, whitish fleshy 2 or 3 bran, ched a foot long or more, taste bitterish nauseous. Properties as an expectorant are noticed in the Pharm of India. In Goa it is esteemed as diuretic in gonorrhoea. In Peru B scandens is used for the same purpose. Ainslie mentions the use of the dry r, oot in doses of a tsp of the powder twice daily as a laxative. | ||||