Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55851 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE Peucedanum galbanum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | South Africa | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: MEDICINES - Genitourinary System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Genitourinary System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 15 E 4 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Col & Ind Exhib Date: 00/00/1886x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Exhibitor VJ Beyers, Farm Onrust River Hermanus Peters Fontein - division Caledon South Africa. Locality Grown on Exhibitors Farm Properties - An excellent diuretic - used sucessfully in cases of gravel & dropsy Vide Dr Pappe's Flora Cape, nsis Medicae pages 18 & 19 Opuscular source: This umbelliferous plant, which attains a height of from 6 to 8 feet, and is found all over the Colony in moist places, or in ravines of mountains, is reputed amongst the inhabitants as an excellent diuretic,, under the name of Wild Celery. A decotion of its leaves proves salutary in cases of dropsy, and has been administered sucessfully in gravel. At times some resinous matter exudes from the stem, which, however, in its appearance, smell, and in every respect, , greatly differs from the Gummi galbanum, the well-known drug of our dispensaries. Linnaeus in giving the name to this species, seems to have been led into a mistake, the real drug being derived from a different plant, a native of the North of Africa, a, nd probably from a kind of Ferula. | ||||