Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45343 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 142.01 MONIMIACEAE Peumus boldus | Entry Book Number | 147.1886 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Chile | TDWG Region | Chile | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | Chile | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Liverpool Exhibition | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Santiago National Agric Socx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Article enclosed from New Preparations, Vol 2 No 2, Detroit, April 15, 1878. Boldo, by Chas W Zaremba, MD PhD. A luxuriant tree of 15 - 20 ft high, growing on the hillsides of the central provinces of Chili, as far down as Oxorno. Very ar, omatic, whence it derives its name, bears oblong, coriceous, very strong and rough leaves set opposite each other; flowers collected in little bunches; fruit small and yellowish, very sweet and aromatic. In the country the fruit is eaten but always in sma, ll quantities on account of their clogging sweetness, and the slight heat thereby produced in the mouth. Used since immemorial times by the natives of the country as an infusion against rheumatic complaints,in syphilis and ulcerations of the mouth etc. A, bout the latter partof 1870,the boldo sprung into fashion among farmers and medical men in Chili. From experiments made and the nature of this product, we may now conclude that the boldo is: 1. A most useful and profitable remedy in blennorrhagia. 2.That, it produces always good effect in dyspeptic affections when we recognize as the cause an atony or debility of the digestive organs, or when complicted by bilious disorders. 3.That its administration has been more than once favorable in cronic catarrh of, the bladder 4. That, the boldo being balsamic and carminative it is an important auxiliary in the treatment of hepatic abscesses whenever the febrile symptoms have been overcome. 5.That considering the observations hitherto made in animals, and also a num, ber of which have been made in man, it is to be presumed that the boldo is a powerful anthelmintic, which presumption is corroborated by the qualities and and the nature of the product. 6.That the decoction of the leaves may also serve very effectively i, n washing wine-casks to prevent them from souring ; a practice followed by the natives farmers since immemorial times. | ||||