Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47888 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 115.00 SCROPHULARIACEAE Picrorhiza kurrooa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Dymock Drx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The drug consists of a rhizome, generally about the size of a goose quill, but often no larger than a crow quill, the lower portion of which is cevered by a shrivelled greyish-brown corky bark and marked by prominent scars, the remains of, rootlets, towards the upper end it becomes larger 1/4 in in diam, and is thickly set with dark greyish brown scales and terminates in a scaly leaf bud or stem. Examined under the microscope the corky bark is seen to be made up of numerous rows of empty, brick shaped cells, wthin this is a cellular parenchyma of oblong brown cells containing a little granular matter, next a dark brown line composed of wood cells, forming the boundary of the inner column of the root. Within this several very large bun, dles of dotted cells arranged so as to form a broken ring, which surrounds a central cellular parenchyma. Valuable tonic in does of 10 - 20 grains a day, and also used as antiperiodic. No purgative action. Sometimes confounded with black hellebore,, owing to the name of kali kutki being given in books as the Hindee for kharbuk aswad, the Arabic name of that durg. Picrorrhiza grows in Gosainkhan, Kunaonm, and Cashmere, sessile deep blue flowers in dense spikes. Noted in Pharm of India and its Supp, lement, and seems worthy of further trials. | ||||