Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 60470 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Glycyrrhiza glabra | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Persia | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Aitchison says the plant is common in Badghis and Khorasan, at an alt of over 2000 ft and most luxuriant in loamy soil where there is moisture. In the latter localities the annual shoots grow to four feet with enormous underground rootstoc, ks, which are sometimes used as fuel. The nomads collect these root stocks from which they prepare the extract of liquorice. Post marked that in Syria it is a variable sp in waste fields and on dry hillsides, crowding out other vegetation. Schlimmer re, fers to 3 sp, G glabra, G echinata, and G violacea, while Boissier makes several varieties of this plant. It occurs in Baluchistan, India obtains market supplies from Persia and Sind, and Aitchison suggested its cultivation in Quetta, Kohat Peshawar and, other NW Frontier localities. Throughout Asia liquorice root and its extract are used for cough and chest complaints. In N Persia the fibre of the root left after the prep. of the extract has been known to be made into paper. | ||||