Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55843 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE Ligusticum pansil | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Chile | TDWG Region | Chile | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Chile | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 15 E 4 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: See Pharm Journ 23.4.1892. The drug consists of the fruiting tops, only fragments of leaves being present. The umbels are compound, the partial umbels consisting of few flowers. The fruit is small, and in shape and appearence bears some re, semblance to conium, but has two broad vittae on the commissural surface, and there is neither general nor partial involucre. The umbels also are generally arrayed in 3s. The leaves under a good lens are seen to be covered, especially on the margins, wi, th minute rough points. In shape the leaf segments resemble those of conium. The stem is hollow and strongly furrowed, and about 2 lines in diam. the peduncle of the umbels being only about 1/3 - 1/2 line in diam. The odour of the herb faintly resembles, that of fenugreek or of lovage, and the taste is slightly aromatic, leaving after a time a sensation of warmth in the mounth. The Chileans employ the plant in skin diseases and to arrest or reduce the perspiration in phthisical patients; for the latter, purpose it is given in decoction. A tincture mixed with water and drawn up through the nostrils is used to relieve headache. The plant is described in Gays 'Flora of Chile' vol iii p131. | ||||