Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42193 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 157.00 MYRICACEAE Myrica nagi | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES - Nervous System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Nervous System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 3 C 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: M.sapida, bark from Bombay Opuscular source: Myrica sapida, the bark. vernacular - Kaiphal (Hind.Bomb. Beng.) Marudam-pattai (Tam.) History, uses etc. This is the Katphala of Sanskrit writers, who describe it as hot and stimulant and reco, mmend it in catarrh and affections of the chest. It is also used by the Hindus as an external stimulant application in cholera etc. Under the names of Dar-shishaan, Kandool, and Aod-ul-bark Mahometan writers tell us that the bark is resolvent, astringent,, carminative and tonic; that it cures catarrah and headaches. With cinnamon they prescribe it for cronic cough, fever, piles etc; compounded with vinegar it strengths the gums and cures toothache; and oil prepared from is valuable in earache. A decoction, is used in asthma, diarrhoea and diuresis; powdered or in the form of lotion, the bark is applied to putrid sores; pessaries made of it promote uterine action. The usual dose for internal administration is about 60 grains. Duhn-ul-kandool, an oil prepared, from the flowers, is said to have much the same properties as the bark. Description - the bark is half an inch thich, externally scabrous, pitted from the seperation of pieces of suber of a mottled rusty brown and dirty white colour, suber warty, substan, ce of bark and inner surface of a deep red colour when soaked in water it produces a deep red solution. Taste strongly astringent. Microscopic structure - within the suberous layer is a remarkable stratum of stony cells; the paranchyma is loaded througho, ut with red colouring, matter, and permeated by large laticiferous vessels, from which a gummy latex exudes when the bark is soaked in water. | ||||