Roots - Specimen details

Roots - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 62701

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Plant Name 49.01 RHAMNACEAE Discaria sp Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Roots Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brazil TDWG Region Brazil
Parts Held Roots Geography Description Brazil
Uses RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 28 F 1
Donor Date 05/02/1937 Donor Notes Foster CW, Sao Paulo Railway Cox0Dx0A
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Notes: Opuscular source: Natives state that people using it experience a sensation of tremendous vigour and well being. According to a local laboratory this root possesses great reconstitutional powers, chiefly as regards the brain, and with direct action also, on the spinal column. 2 or 3 roots should be placed in a litre of pinga (strong alcoholic native drink from cane juice) and allowed to stand until it takes on the colour of port wine, when it is ready for use. A wine glass full is taken before lunch an, d dinner. After about ten days one begins to feel the effects. I know an old gent of 72 who, after trying it was able to resume marital relations, and as I have said, several friends who have tried it have been well satisfied with its properties. The b, ark of this root contains a very large amount of cluster crystals of Ca O? The bark of D longispina contains much starch and only scattered clusters of Ca Ox. The general structure of the 2 roots is similar. TEW. The root is apparently from a sp of Dis, caria, family Rhamnaceae. This sp is uncertain, but it is near D longispina. From CW Foster, Sao Paulo Railway Co, Estacao do Luz, Sao Paulo 5/2/37. Through Dr Burn and Sir W Wilcox.

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