Flowers - Specimen details

Flowers - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 51724

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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
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Donor Col & Ind Exhib 1886 Donor No 40
Donor Date Donor Notes Parent DL, Herbalist, Cape Townx0Dx0A
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
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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

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