Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57710 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 58.01 ROSACEAE Acaena splendens | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Chile | TDWG Region | Chile | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Chile | ||
| 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 | 15 B 2 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: The drug consists of dark brown woody stems, forked at intervals of several inches,and densely covered with the somewhat rigid bases of the crowded leaves. The leaves are imparipinnate with entire linear, entire, lanceolate silvery leaflet, s, which bear some resemblance to those of Alchemilla alpinia. The leaves however owing to the slender petiole are mostly broken off. The leaf bases are erect and imbricate, or recurved at the apex, and although covered with silky hairs have not, owing, to their browner colour, the same silvery appearance as the leaves. The taste is astringent and slightly bitter. The plant has no perceptible odour. It is described in Gays Flora of Chile p.291 and the Botanical Miscellany p.306. It is found in the Cor, dillers of Santiago, San Fernando. Ascending to a height of 5-600 feet. The whole of the plant is used in medicine in the form of an infusion and is given in the liver complaints common in the Northern and Central parts of Chile. It acts also as a slight, diurectic and is employed as an emmenagogue. Another species known as Pimpinela (Acaena pinnatifida RP.) is also employed (P.J. 23.4.92) as an emmenagogue in this species the leaves are glabrous. | ||||