Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48901 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Onosma echioides | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Achundow; Schl.; Boiss. iv 181; Fl. Br. Ind. iv 178. IHB Ph Ind 11 54. This plant, growing in Afghanistan and Siberia, affords a root which is a substitute for Alkanet (Anchusa tinctoria), from Al-kanna of the Arabs, employed as a dye and, medicine in early times. The root of the allied sp O hookeri Clarke, is called Ranj-i-bedshah, 'Kings Dye'. The tapering root has a purplish colour, and the cortical portion is easily separated in flakes. It imparts its colour to oils and spirits,, and is used in colouring medicinal preparations. In Baluchistan the powdered leaves are given as a purgative to children. In Hamadan the root is powdered and given to horses for cough. | ||||