Corms - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 36784 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 178.03 LILIACEAE Fritillaria imperialis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Corms | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Corms | Geography Description | Persia | ||
| Uses | CormsUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Used medicinally for chest complaints. The corms. Gul-ilsamigun (Teheran); Gole-samagune 'The bulbs of the topsy-turvy'; 'The tubers of a plant, the flowers of which, according to the natives, hang upside down, considered rare in Afghanista, n and highly valued as a medicine' (Aitchison). Schlimmer refers the drug to F. acmopetala. Another Persian name for this plant is Gul-i-shirper, 'flowers of six feathers' (L.J. Jeffries, mountains of Dasht Arjin, Lauristan. 1928). Boiss.v. 189; Ph.Ind.ii, i.498 (K.B. 1931 p.318) The Crown Imperial. The drug consists of broken pieces of thick corms. They are of a whitish colour, without odour or taste. The starch is oval and regular. An alkaloid has been separated from them by Fragner. The corms of species, of Fritillaria are a valuable medicine in the Far East, chiefly for chest complaints. Regarding the Persian drug it is said 'When a women has a child, a paste is made from it and it is put on her stomach to reduce pain. | ||||