Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51724 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Tanacetum multiflorum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | South Africa, Cape Town | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Col & Ind Exhib 1886 | Donor No | 40 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Parent DL, Herbalist, Cape Townx0Dx0A | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: This species, like all other plants of the same genus, contains a great deal of resin, and a specific, ethereal oil, of a very strong and peculiar odour. It has a bitter aromatic, acrid taste, and is used as a tonic, antispasmodic, and ant, helmintic, in flatulency, gout, amenorrhoea, and dropsy, but particularly for expelling lumbrici and other intestinal worms. It is administered in the form of powder, or infusion which latter promotes perspiration and acts as a mild diuretic. Applied as, a fomentation, it is resolvent and anodyne, and is used also for making injections. This plant, called worm kruid, grows very abundantly in sandy soils close to the sea | ||||