Fruit - Specimen details

Fruit - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 46696

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Plant Name 148.01 LORANTHACEAE Loranthus sp Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Fruit Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Fruit Geography Description India
Uses FruitUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Not defined TDWG use MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 21 B 7
Donor Date Donor Notes India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: This is the name of a small, shrivelled, soft fruit imported from Persia; it is called Dibk and Kasus in Arabic and appears to be the berry of some species of Viscum. The author of the 'Makhzan-ul-adwiya' has the following account of it:-, ' A berry smaller than the seed of Cicer aristinum, green when fresh, but when dry shrivelled and of a brown colour, the contents are moist and viscid, the seeds about the size of poppy seeds. 'The plant is parasitic upon the pear and other trees and cons, ists of several branches, the leaves are like those of the pomegranate and of a pale green. 'Properties resolvent and laxative, a solvent of corrupt humours, which it withdraws from the system. When steeped in hot water, strained and beaten up with the ke, rnels of the walnut or castor oil (which is the usual form of administration) it clears the system of bile and phlegm, removes obstructions and is a remedy for lumbago, piles, etc. Applied externally it promotes the suppuration, or causes the dispersion o, f tumours and enlargments. Sportsmen use it as birdlime, and dyers as a mordant for crimson'.

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