Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48663 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 113.01 CONVOLVULACEAE Ipomoea orizabensis | Entry Book Number | 11.1904 | |
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Mexico | TDWG Region | Mexico | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Mexico, Northern America, North and Central America | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Holmes EM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 05/03/1904 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Radix orizabae - This root, which has for some time been supplied commercially and which is also known as Radix Scammoniae mexicanae, is derived from Ipomoea orizabansis, a convolulaceae growing in Mexico. The root contains a resin similar, to scamorium, the proportion of which has been shown by G Weigel to be 17-18%. Lesser kinds contain only 6-7%. Therapeutically, as a purgative, the resin of the orizata root is possibly equivalent to the scammonium resin. Mercks Report Volume XVII 1903 pa, t.mag. 1904 J.H.H. Aug 2 1904. Ipomoea orizabensis Ledensis Index Kewensis. Pharm Journ. 5.3.04. pp 326 & 327. | ||||