Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52033 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 91.01 CAMPANULACEAE Lobelia decurrens | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Peru | TDWG Region | Peru | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Peru, Jarobamba, 5 leagues from Arequipa | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 B 6 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Hanbury Collectionx0Dx0A | |||
| Collector | Warszewicz AJ de | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: See Penney 'On Lobelia used medicinally in Peru' in Pharm Journ and Trans, July 1853, Vol xiii p 14. (See below) Label source: A few weeks since Hanbury handed me a spec. of Lobelia which he had received from de Warszewicz, a German botani, st, travelling in S America. It was found in the village of Jarobamba. A monopetalous epigynous exogen, with a two celled ovary, syngenesious anthers, stigma surrounded by hairs, and valvate irregular corolla, it is at once recognizable. It appears to, be very acrid, its aqueous infusion has a burning and acrid taste, not unlike tobacco, and its smell is irritating and nauseating. Medicinal in Peru. Its action remarkable in nervous fever; that in Arequipa one, two or three grains of the leaves and fl, owers, in the form of powder are given in a dose to adults, and act quickly, and an emetic and purgative. Indians universally employ it as an emetic. Roots leaves and flowers are used. | ||||