Stems and fruits - Specimen details

Stems and fruits - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 51632

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Plant Name 88.00 COMPOSITAE Loricaria sp Entry Book Number 83.1891
Artefact Name Stems and fruits Vernacular Name
Iso Country Peru TDWG Region Peru
Parts Held Stems and fruits Geography Description Peru
Uses Stems and fruitsUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Notes: Label source: Sphaeranthus mollis - Local name Moondi. A very common annual plant, generally about 8 inches high; stems winged; leaves thick, sessile, decurrent, obovate; bristles serrate, covered with down consisting of long white hairs; flower heads s, olitary, mostly terminal, subglobular, the size of a horse bean, purplish when fresh, but loose their colour when dried; roots fibrous. The drug generally consists, of the whole plant, but the capitula are sometimes sold separately. The taste is a little, bitter; the odour of the capitula is terebinthinate. Moondia appears to be well known all over India as an alterative and purifier of the blood; the peculiar odour may be observed inthe urine and persperation of those who take it. It is con sidered to be, hot, and moist in the second degree. Its uses in native medicine are fully described in the 'Makhzan ul adwiya'. The flower heads ofthis plant will probably be found to yield an essential oil likely to contain its active principles.
Determinations:88.00 COMPOSITAE Sphaeranthus mollis
    88.00 COMPOSITAE Loricaria sp

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