Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53829 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Rubia cordifolia | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: History and uses - Madder is used in Hindu medicine as a colouring agent, medicated oils are boiled with it to give them colour. It is also a useful external astringent, and is applied to inflamed parts, ulcers, fractures, etc. Chakradatt, a recommends madder rubbed with honey as an application to the brown spots of pityriasis versicolor. The Sansrit name for madder is Manjishtah. Under the names of tuvvah and runas, Arabic and Persian writers treat of madder, probably the poduce of R tin, ctorium, as the roots which come from Afghanistan appear to be identical with those of the European sp. They do not make any distinction between the sp, but simply mention a wild and cult var. The Mahometans consider the drug to be deobstruent, and pres, cribe it in paralytic aflictions, jaundice, obstructions in the urinary passages, and amenorrhoea. They mention the fuit as useful in hepatic obstruction, and a paste made from the roots with honey as a good application to freckles and other discoloratio, ns of the skin. The whole plant is reputed to be alexipharmic, it is also hung up in houses to avert the evil eye, and tied to the necks of animals with the same object. Ainslie observes that the Hakkeems are in the habit of prescribing an infusion of t, he madder root as a grateful and deobstruent in the cases of scanty lochial discharge after lying in (Mat Ind II p 18). In another notice of the article (Op cit i. p202), he remarks that it would appear to be chiefly produced in Kachar, and the root is in, great demand in the adjacent countries for dyeing their coarse cloths and stuffs red; the Nepalese are in the habit of bartering it for rock salt and borax. Kinneir and Tavernier notice the abundance of madder in Persia and Makran. Dr G Playfair, in a, note appended to his translation of the Taleef i shareefee (p150) states that if taken to the extent of about three drachms several times daily, it powerfully affects the nervous system, inducing temp delirium etc, with evident determination to the uterin, e system. The plant is common on the higher ghats in the Bombay Presidency, but the Bombay market draws its supplies chiefly from Kelat through Sind. The imported article fetches a higher price than that grown in India. Description - Madder root consis, ts of a short stock from which numerous cylindrical roots, about the size of a quill, diverge; these are covered by a brownish suber, which peels off in flakes, disclosing red brown bark, marked by longitudinal furrows. | ||||