Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58246 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Cassia tora | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | SeedsUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 20 A 4 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Pharm Journ [3] vol vii p.350 Syn Kiueh-Ming-Tsze, Porter Smith, Chinese Mat Med p.54; Keue-Ming Tsze, Hanbury Science Papers, p.231 ; Tagaray-elley Ainslie Mat Med vol ii p.405; Ketsumei, Miq.Prol. p.243 ; Yebisugusa, So mokou Zoussetz, vo, l viii fig 1; Phonzou Zoufou, vol xviii Fol.12 The seeds, which are to be seen in most collections of drugs from India or China are of a dark brown colour and polish, about two lines long, quadrangular, oblique at both ends but blunt at one end and pointe, d at the other, and having 2 very faint strips on opposite sides. Dr Porter Smith states that in China they are used both externally and internally for sore eyes and for herpetic or furunculoid sores. In India according to Udoy Chand Dutt (Hindu Mat Med V, ol 5 p.156) the seeds are dipped into the juice of Euphorbia neriifolia and made into a paste with cows urine for Keloid tumors; or equal parts of them mixed with the seeds of Pongamia glabra and a fourth part of the root of Tinospora cordifolia are made, into a paste for ringworm. Fr. et Savat Fl. JAp Vol 1 express the opinion that neither this plant nor C.occidentalis nor C.sophora grows spontaneously in Japan. The seeds of C.tora are therefore probably imported into Japan. The Japenese and Chinese chara, cters for Cassia tora seed are identical, although in China the word is pronounced according to Dr Porter Smith Kiueh-ming-tsze. Also a tube of seeds of unknown origin A & H 1935, Mr Wallis Curator Pharm Soc | ||||