Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 30877 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 327.00 ASPLENIACEAE Polypodium vulgare | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Punjab | ||
| Uses | RootUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Paris Exhibition 1878 | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museumx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: The dried rhizome occurs in pieces of various lengths, and of a thickness of a quill. It is flattened, of a yellowish brown colour externally, green internally, but when old, yellowish; the upper surface is studded with tubercles, to so, me of which a portion of the base of the frond still adheres. The under surface is more or less spinous from the remains of broken radicles. The taste is sweetish, astringent, nauseous and somewhat acrid; odour ferny. Under the microscope the rhizome is s, een to consist of a delicate cellular structure containing much starch and green granular matter; it is traversed by large bundles of scalariform vessels. Analysed by Desfosses, it was found to contain a complex substance, partly resinous and partly oily, , a fermentable sugar, a substance analogous to sarcocolla, an astringent matter, gum, starch, albumen and salts of lime and magnesia. Confer Guibourt, vol 2, p.71, where there is a good figure of the drug. Basfaij is aperient and deobstruent and is consi, dered to act as an expellant of peccant humours; it iis also used as an alterative in a variety of disorders; it is frequently combined with cassia pulp and honey. The Mahomedan Hakeems use it largely. It is the Polupodion of the Greeks, and the Azras ul, Kalb of the Arabs; the latter name which may be translated Dog's Tooth Fern, is given to it on account of the toothed appearance of the fronds. Dymock Pharm. Journ. | ||||