Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 40832 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 1.01 RANUNCULACEAE Coptis teeta | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Local name - Mameeran. Two distinct varieties of this drug are met with in the Bombay market. The kind most esteemed is a yellowish rhizome as thick as a crow quill or larger, having a few spinous projections where rootlets have been brok, en off. The whole rhizome is jointed, but at the upper end the joints become much more marked and a stem clasping petiole often remains attached to each of them. The second kind is as thick as goose quill and covered with thin wiry rootlets. It often, branches at the crown into two or three heads, which terminate in a tuft of leaf stalks that are crowded together and never separate as in the first kind. The rhizomes of both kinds are contorted and break with a short fracture. the centre is spongy an, d the surrounding portion bright yellow and woody. Taste purely bitter. The first kind corresponds with the description of Coptis root in the Bengal Dispensatory, the second with the description of the drug in the Pharmacographia and with all the descr, iptions of Thalictrum foliolosum. The bark of the second kind is much the thickest, and is softer and more corky than the first. In both bundles of the orange coloured sclerenchymatons cells are present, and the medullary rays contain starch.The wood is, arranged in distinct wedge shaped bundles, round a central parenchymatous portion having a structure similar to that of the inner cortex. Both kinds of the drug come to Bombay from China via Singapore in bulk. The first is worth 3 1/4 rupees per pound., The second 2 rupees. Dymock Pharm. Journ.? | ||||