Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51987 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Vernonia anthelmintica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 18 G 1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The seeds and their properties are sufficiently and correctly described in the Pharmacopoeia of India. They contain no alkaloids or glucoside. The active principle appears to be a resin. Dec 11th 1875 - The genus Vernonia, the largest of th, e composite order, V.anthelmintica, common in waste places throughout india, furnishes from its seeds by pressure a green coloured oil or fat. These seeds are seen in most of the Indian bazaars, they are of a brown colour and have a bitter nauseous taste, ; amongst the natives they are highly valued as an anthelmintic, being bruised and adminstered in honey in doses of about a drachm and a half, divided equally, and taken at an interval of a few hours followed by an aperient. There effect is said to be to, expel worms in a lifeless state. 'In Travancore, the bruised seeds ground up in a paste with lime juice are largely employed as a means of destroying pediculi' They were regarded by Dr Gibson as a valuable tonic and stomachic, and besides this they are a, lso said to be diuretic. From the evidence in favour of their use as an anthelmintic, there would seem to warrant further and more careful trials. | ||||