Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41911 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 1.01 RANUNCULACEAE Aconitum sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 28 D 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Dymock DRx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Tuberous roots of a light brown colour, resembling those of Aconitum napellus in size and shape, they break with a short fracture, and the interior is either white and farinaceous, or horny and yellowish. Both the farinaceous and horny root, s have a pure bitter taste, as persistent as that of quinine, without any acridity. The roots when soaked in water have a pungent smell like nasturtium. They do not resemble any of the varieties of Aconite described by Mr. Moodeen Sheriff (Supplement to P, harmaeopoeia of India pp 25, 32, 265). They may or may not be included in the numerous varieties of Aconite noticed in the Makhzan ul Adwiya and other Persian and Arabic works on Materia Medica, under the heads Bish and Judwar. The descriptions are not su, fficiently minute to determine this point. Microscopic structure; The parenchyrne is composed of large, oblong thin walled cells loaded with starch, the vascular bundles, which consist of scalariform vessels, are about twelve in no. In the young tubers t, hey are crowded tog ether towards the centre, in the old ones they occupy the circumference. This drug is new to me, and is lettle known in Bombay. A considerable parcel was brought here a short time since by a Brahmin from Mangrole, who would not say w, here it came from. he has written a pamphlet to explain its properties, the most remarkable of which are that it is said to stop vimiting or purging, and allay pain in the abdomen. The dose, according to our Brahmin, is two grains. Dr Sakharam Arjun, a, graduate of Bombay university, practising here, tells me that he is acquainted with the drug, and that he considers it to be a powerful bitter and antiperiodic. He believes it to be to root of Aconitum palmatum (O Stapf.) | ||||