Stems and fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51632 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Loricaria sp | Entry Book Number | 83.1891 | |
| Artefact Name | Stems and fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Peru | TDWG Region | Peru | ||
| Parts Held | Stems and fruits | Geography Description | Peru | ||
| Uses | Stems and fruitsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Praschkauer & Cox0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Sphaeranthus mollis - Local name Moondi. A very common annual plant, generally about 8 inches high; stems winged; leaves thick, sessile, decurrent, obovate; bristles serrate, covered with down consisting of long white hairs; flower heads s, olitary, mostly terminal, subglobular, the size of a horse bean, purplish when fresh, but loose their colour when dried; roots fibrous. The drug generally consists, of the whole plant, but the capitula are sometimes sold separately. The taste is a little, bitter; the odour of the capitula is terebinthinate. Moondia appears to be well known all over India as an alterative and purifier of the blood; the peculiar odour may be observed inthe urine and persperation of those who take it. It is con sidered to be, hot, and moist in the second degree. Its uses in native medicine are fully described in the 'Makhzan ul adwiya'. The flower heads ofthis plant will probably be found to yield an essential oil likely to contain its active principles. | ||||
| Determinations: | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Sphaeranthus mollis 88.00 COMPOSITAE Loricaria sp | ||||