Cortex - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52014 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 98.00 PLUMBAGINACEAE Plumbago rosea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Cortex | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Cortex | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | CortexUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum 1880 Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The root bark is reddish brown externally, transversely fissured, thick and suberous; internally it is white when first removed, but soon turns red upon exposure to the air. It has a rancid heavy odour. A section of the root shows a central, woody column, white a very large vascular system, surrounded by a bark almost entirely made up of thin walled parenchymatous cells loaded with large oil globules and containing some starch. There is a good summary of the medicinal uses of this drug in th, e Pharmacopoeia of India. I think it might be used in this country as a substitute for Mezereon in the Lin. Sinapis Comp. and in Decoct Sarzae Comp. The active principle Plumbagin being soluble in ether an ethereal extract might be made. | ||||