Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52004 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 100.01 MYRSINACEAE Embelia micrantha | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | Madagascar | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 21 E 9 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: These fruits are about the size of a red currant or black pepper. They have a wrinkled reddish-black husk or skin, which, when removed, is found to contain a single seed, which like others of the genus is readily distinguished by being mark, ed with white dots, formed apparently by the infolding of the endopleura into the horny albumen; the lower half of the seed has a cup-shaped cavity. The taste is slightly acrid or pungent. In Madagascar the fruit is given for worms, the wood of the shrub, being administered as a tonic. In the Mauritius, where it is called Liane Poilly (Bouton, 'Fl. Med. De Maurice' p 92) After M Grillot Poilly, who made known its value in nephritis, of which he was cured by a native by means of a decotion of the plant. Th, e fruits of another species E.ribes Burm., are used in India as a remedy for tapeworm in the dose of a teaspoon full for a child and a desertspoon full for an adult twice a day, and according to Dr Dymock with sucess, the worm being expelled dead, Pharm J, ourn 3 VII p 3 ; Dutt, 'Hind Mat Med' p 183 | ||||