Herb - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 52077

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Plant Name 88.00 COMPOSITAE Osmitopsis asteriscoides Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Herb Vernacular Name
Iso Country South Africa TDWG Region South Africa
Parts Held Herb Geography Description Cape of Good Hope
Uses HerbUse: MEDICINES - Muscular-Skeletal System Disorders User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES - Muscular-Skeletal System Disorders
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 13 E 4
Donor Date Donor Notes Col & Ind Exhib 1886 Date: 00/00/1886x0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: Exhibitor: VJ Beyers No. 6. 'Onrust River' P.O Hermanus Peters Fontein ? - Caledon South Africa. Osmitopsis - grown on exhibitors farm - Caledon locality - Antispasmodic, tonic, Resolvent, Used for cough - hoarseness, diseases of the chest, and flatulent colic - used externally for paralysis. Vide Dr Pappes Flora Capensis Medicae pages 26-27. Label source: Found along banks of streams. Both are used in decoctions or preserved in spirits for colds and coughs. The Osmotopsis is impregnated w, ith a great deal of an aromatic volatile oil, which, from its odour and taste, seems to contain camphor. Hence its virtues as an antispasmodic, tonic, and resolvent. In the form of infusion, it is frequently and advantageously employed in cough, hoarsenes, s, and in diseases of the chest generally, and is said to be also very serviceable in flatulent colic. Infused in spirit, it acts as a powerful external remedy, and Thunberg relates that he has successfully cured paralysis with embrocations of the Spiritu, s Bellidis. It would be worth while to distil the essential oil, with which this plant abounds, and which, from its peculiarity, shows an affinity to cajeput-oil. The Osmites hirsuta Less a plant common on the mountains of Fransche Hoek and Drakenstein, h, aving a similar smell, is known in the Colony as Van der Merwe's Kruiden.

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