Stem - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53132 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Uncaria gambir | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Stem | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Stem | Geography Description | Malay States | ||
| Uses | StemUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 17 D 7 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thos (presented by)x0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Chau-to-ko (13) Syn. Tian-T'ang, Porter Smith, Chinese Mat. Med. p.224 This drug consists of short portions of the slender stems half an inch to one inch in length and one to two lines broad, with one or two strongly recurved hooks. The who, le is of a brown colour and has a an astringent taste. These curious hooks do not consist, as described by Dr Porter Smith, of the stipules, but of the stalk which bear the flower heads. The flower stalks, as described in Bently & Trimens Med. Plants are, furnished near the middle with a few bracts, beyond which the peduncle is more slender. After the fall of the fruit the portion of stem below the bracts elongates, hardens and forms a strong recurved hook by means of which the plant climbs. On some of the, hooks the traces of the fall of the peduncle and bract may still be seen, on others, which have probably arisen from abortive inflorescences, there is no sign of them. It is probable that these hooks are also obtained from U.acida Roxb., a plant which is, used in the Malay Islands in the same manner. The hooks possess an astringent property, and a wine is made from them used for infantile diseases according to Dr Porter Smith. Neither of these species are mentioned in Franchet and Savatiers work, and this, drug may therefore be a Japanese importation from China. | ||||