Herb - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 53286

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Plant Name 84.01 RUBIACEAE Oldenlandia dichotoma Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Herb Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Herb Geography Description India
Uses HerbUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 15 B 7
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Notes: Label source: A small plant common in cultivated ground. It is erect about one foot high, dichotomous, glabrous ; stem acutely four-angled ; leaves linear lanceolate ; pedicels one flowered, axillary ; capsule nearly round, opening at the apex ; root sma, ll and fibrous. The plant turns black when dry. It is kept in the druggist shops in Goa, and is in use there as an alterative in low forms of fever. It is administered in combination with Adiantum lunulatum and Hydrocotyle asiatica. I have never seen it i, n the Bombay shops.
Determinations:84.01 RUBIACEAE Oldenlandia dichotoma
    84.01 RUBIACEAE Hedyotis henryii
    84.01 RUBIACEAE Hedyotis heynei

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