Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51381 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Atractylis ovata | Entry Book Number | 74.118 | |
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | RootUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy T | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A.ovata Thunb. Fl. Jap p 306 Syn Biyaku Jutsu, So mokou Zoussetz, vol XV fig 49 ; Biakou Sitsou, Phonzou Zoufou, vol IV p 25, 26; Ikera, Fr.et Sav., vol.i. p 256. The root of Biak-yitz occurs in pale brown knotty pieces, irregular in shapea, nd slightly bent or twisted, about 1 inch long and 1/2 an inch in diameter. Internally it is whitish and speckled with yellowish brown dots, which under a lens are seen to contain an oily and resinous matter, which in another species (A.lancea Thb.) accor, ding to Hanbury (Science Paper 255) is not removed by water, alcohol or ether. According to a writer in New Remedies Jan 1877 and quoted in the Pharm Journ Vol 7 (3) p 675 the Biaku juszu is much used as well as the root of Sad juzuor So jutsu (a.lancea), as an anti febrile in Japan. In China it is used as a tonic, stimulant, diaphoretic and diuretic. The Japanese name signifies, biak, white, yitz or jutsu, atractylis, and is possibly given in allusion to the pale under surface of the leaves, since the flo, wers are red. The plant appears to have somewhat the habit of the Serratula tinctoria of this country. It grows in damp places by waysides and flowers in October. The root is the part used in medicine. The drug mentioned under Atraclodes alba, in Dr Porte, r Smith's Chinese Materia Medica has the same written character for which Peh-shuh (White Shuh) is given the equivalent sound. His specimens of the root are evidently those of a nearly allied but different species, being almost globular, and of a more fra, grant and slightly different odour. Several species of these genus appear to be used in China under the name of Shuh. | ||||