Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52144 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Artemisia afra | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Cape of Good Hope | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES - Muscular-Skeletal System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Muscular-Skeletal System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 C 6 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Col & Ind Exhib 1886 Date: 00/00/1886x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The whole of the wormwood (Alsem) has a strong balmy smell, and a bitter, aromatic, but nauseous taste, owing to a green essential oil which it contains. The herb is tonic, antispasmodic, and anthelmintic, and very useful in debility of the, stomach, visceral obstructions, jaundice, hypochondriasis, or similar evils, while its efficacy as a vermifuge is generally admitted. The best forms for using it are the infusion, the decoction, and tincture, the latter being preferred by the colonists., A strong infusion is used externally as a collyrium in weakness of the eyes, and the pounded leaves and stalks are employed as a discutient in oedema and sugillations. See Pappes Flora Cap p.23 | ||||