Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47590 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 138.00 ARISTOLOCHIACEAE Aristolochia indica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 25 A 5 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | Dymock Dr, Bombayx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The drug as found in the shops consists of the root and stem, the latter pricipally. It is in pieces about 3 inches long and 1/4 of an inch or more in diameter and has a central woody column made up of about 10 wedge shaped portions. The ba, rk is thick and corky, marked with longitudinal ridges and numeroud small warty projections; it is of a yellowish brown colour. Under the microscope the central wood is seen to be traversed by large vessels, the medullary rays are distinct and easily trac, ed into the bark; in the latter, which consists of corky parenchyma loaded with starch, there is a circular zone of large yellow stoney cells. Sapsun is very bitter and has a pungent camphoraceous taste; it is met with in all the shops. The plant grows in, this neighbourhood but is not very common; it is largely used as a stimulent tonic. An alcoholic tincture evaporated yields a quanity of yellow bitter resin, and some yellow colouring matter soluble in water. | ||||