Herb - Specimen details
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Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Heliotropium indicum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Maharashtra, Asia-Tropical, India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | Herb Use: MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 B 5 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: An annual plant, one to two feet high, common in ditches in Bombay ; it seems to like a rich soil. The whole plant is more or less covered with simple hairs ; stems several as thick as the little finger, hollow, branched from the axils of t, he leaves ; leaves generally alternate, cordate-ovate, rugose, long petioled ; petioles margined ; spikes terminal, solitary simple ; flowers like those of heliotrope, but smaller; fruit mitre shaped. The plant has a fetid odour like stramonium ; taste a, little bitter. It is used as a local application to boils sores and the stings of insects. Dymock Pharm. Journ. | ||||