Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48913 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Bourreria havanensis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Jamaica | TDWG Region | Jamaica | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Jamaica, Southern America, Caribbean | ||
| Uses | RootUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 25 C 6 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Bush WJ & Co Ltd, Hackney, London Date: 16/07/1948x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter from Bush & Co (GRA Short) to Dr Wallis, Pharm Soc. Many thanks for your identification of the herb which I sent you some time ago. Am now sending you another specimen which we have received from our agent in Jamaica, together w, ith a note from him which is self explanatory. It grows like a vine with elongated roots. The root is used called 'Strongback'. The Black natives dig this root up and take it home and boil it as tea or coffee, the draught is drunk in the morning or nigh, t or any time. V popular, in so much the women after child birth or abortion, drink it for a considerable time, 10 days at least and as many as 30 and more days. I imagine in may be the Yellow Gentian of medicine. The leaves are narrow tapering kind and, the shrub once a year bears berries or seed pods. A twig of the plant is also enclosed with samples. | ||||