Entire plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46138 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 126.01 LABIATAE Ocimum gratissimum | Entry Book Number | 36.1904 | |
| Artefact Name | Entire plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Ghana | TDWG Region | Ghana | ||
| Parts Held | Entire plant | Geography Description | Gold Coast | ||
| Uses | Entire plantUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wilkins M | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Noonoom seed pods from the Gold Coast. Gathered Feb. 27 1904 by W Boyd Ocimum viride 36.1904 see letter no. 75/1904. Noonoom 'It is a native remedy for fevers and billiousness and headache. It is also used as an enema in constipation. An in, fusion is made of the leaves and stem and drunk hot like tea. My correspondent tells me he prefers it to quinine as it leaves none of the unpleasant after effects of quinine'. (See extract from letter No.75.1904 M Wilkins 19 Lyndhurst Road, Peckham to Dir, ector April 25 1904. Other references: Pharm Jour May 9 1903 p.659; Aug 1 1903 p.230; Nov 4 1903 p.714. J.H.H. May 18th 1904. Originally Ocimum viride Willd. | ||||
| Determinations: | 126.01 LABIATAE Ocimum gratissimum 126.01 LABIATAE Ocimum viride Willd. | ||||