Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53050 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Sphaeranthus mollis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 E 9 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum No: 1.188x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A very common annual plant, generally about 8 inches high, stems winged; leaves thick, sessile, decurrent, obovate, bristle serrate, covered with down consisting of long white hairs; flower heads solitary, mostly terminal, subglobular, the, size of a morse bean, purplish when fresh, but lose 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 terebinthi, nate. Moondi appears to be well known all over India as an alterative and purifier of the blood; the peculiar odour may be observed in the urine and perspiration of those who take it. It is considered to be hot, and moist in the second degree. Its uses, in native mediicine are fully described in the Makhzan ul Adwiya. the flower heads of this plant will probably be found to yield an essential oil likely to contain its active principles. | ||||