Fruits - Specimen details

Fruits - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 46332

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Plant Name 125.01 VERBENACEAE Vitex heterophylla Entry Book Number 91.1908
Artefact Name Fruits Vernacular Name
Iso Country China TDWG Region China
Parts Held Fruits Geography Description China, Foochow
Uses FruitsUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Notes: Opuscular source: Extract from letter from Dr Brown to DIrector - Packet of seeds just received from Miss Cooper, a medical missionary, Foochow, China. She had written a paper about the root of the tree which they produce being very efficacious in curin, g severe phagocdemic? ulcers. Printed in Therap Soc 3 Sept 1905 p 130. The seeds are from a small tree. An infusion of the root used to control suppuration, healing ulcers with marvellous rapidity.

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