Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 36662 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.22 ALOACEAE Aloe africana | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | South Africa | ||
| 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 | 27 A 4 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Col & Ind Exhib 1886x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A decoction of the root is taken in cases of liver complaints, & c. Also roasted and ground, and the powder rubbed into incisions where pain is felt. The Cape Aloes are procured from several species of this extensive genus, so peculiar to S, outh Africa. The Aloe ferox Lam., a native of Swellendam, is generally acknowledged to yield the best extract. That obtained from the Aloe africana Mill. is almost equally good, but not so bitter, nor so powerful as a drastic. It is produce of the Eastern, districts, whence (sentence unfinished. ) | ||||