Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47575 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Atropa belladonna | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Bulgaria | TDWG Region | Bulgaria | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Bulgaria | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 44 D 1 | ||
| Donor Date | 03/01/1938 | Donor Notes | Dr King, Med. Research Institute, Hampsteadx0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter re treatment of Encephalitis Lethargica. Ivan Raeff, Chipka (Bulgaria). Method of use. Take 30 g of root no 1 and one powder no 2, and boil them in 600 g of natural white wine. From the moment of boiling allow the boiling to, go on for 10 minutes, cool and filter the decoction and pour into a bottle. Stopper well and put in a cool place. Of this decoction give the patient that night after his 1st sleep (he must be wakened for this) the following dose. 1/2 soup spoons for ch, ildren of 5 yrs, 1 for 5 - 15 yrs, 2 for 15 to 25 yrs, and 3 for 25 etc. On 1st days the reaction to treatment takes place in different forms - delirium, incoherence of speech etc, this disappears after some hours. Give as much milk as patient can drink, . If crisis is violent diminish dose temporarily to one soupspoon, it not, the dose may be increased. Give pills package no 3 one in the morning taken fasting, after which take hot milk or tea (lime, chamomile?) The roots in pack no 4 to be given every, 2 hours, a piece the size of grain of wheat, 6 or 7 a day. Chew before swallowing, after which wash out mouth. Cod liver oil is recommended for feeble patients. Root no 1 - Belladonna Root, Root 2 Wood charcoal 0.15 g each. Pills 3 - Wheat flour dough w, ith Cassia and Aconite. Root 4 Rhizome of Acorus? calamus. Copied from a circular sent out by the pharmacist distributed in Bulgaria. | ||||