Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62519 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 50.02 LEEACEAE Leea sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Goa | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 24 E 8 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: This is the root of a stout undershrub with large pinnate leaves, very common in Goa. The roots are long and straight, branched. The bark is slightly scabrous, dark brown externally, striated, internally it is red and striated; the wood i, s porous, and shows very distinct medually rays? Microscopic appearances not in any way remarkable. The bark has an agreeable astringent taste; the wood appears to be inert. Geeno is the Ratanhia of the Portuguese at Goa, and has a considerable resembl, ance to that drug. It is administered in diarrhoea and chronic dysentery. | ||||