Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58037 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Melilotus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 20 B 6 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The small crescent shaped pods which are imported into Bombay from the Persian Gulf under this name are not those of M officinalis but are considered by Arabian writers to be the melilotus of Dioscorides. The author of the Makhzan ul Adwi, ya gives maleelotus as the Greek name, and geeah i kaisar as the Persian. He goes on to say that there are 2 kinds of melilot, both much alike but the fruit of one is crescent shaped with small roundish seeds, something like fenugreek while the fruit oft, he other is smaller and slightly curved. The best fruit for medicinal pruposes is hard, yellowish white and aromatic. The Mahometans following the Greeks hold melilot in high esteem as a remedy in a great variety of disorders. It is considered to be su, ppurative and slightly astringent and is much used as a poultice to dispel tumours and cold swellings. The diseases in which it is administered internally are of a widely different nature, and far too numerous for recapitulation here. For an account of, them we must refer the reader to the Makhzan article Ikllel ul Malik. The Arabnian drug appears to have the same properties as officinalis, at any rate it has the same peculiar coumarin odour. M leucantha, Koch. and M parviflora Desf. grow in the Bombay, Presidency; the first sp has the delicate odour of the European melilot. In the Makhzan an Indian var of melilot is mentioned which has very small fruit; it is called parang. | ||||