Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62150 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE Semecarpus anacardium | Entry Book Number | 77.1900 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | India, Central Provinces, Seoni, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MATERIALS - Lipids User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Lipids | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Paris Exhibition 1900 | Donor No | 685DD p24 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museumx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This is regarded by the Hindus as acrid, heating, stimulant, digestive, nervine and escharotic, and is used in dyspepsia, piles, skin diseases and nervous debility. It is prepared for internal use by being boiled with cowdung and afterwa, rds washed with cold water. The nut is also used to produce the appearance of a bruise in support of criminal charges preferred through enmity, and the juice is sometimes applied to the body out of revenge, the victim having first been made insensible by, the administration of narcotics. In Sanskrit medicinal works, a section is often devoted to the treatment of ulcerations thus produced. When given internally the juice of the pericarp is always mixed with oil or melted butter. The Arabic name for then, ut is Hab ul Kalb, an allusion to the heart shaped form. Mahometan writers order the juice to be always mixed with oil, butter, or some oily seed, when used for internal administration. They consider it to be hot and dry, useful in all kinds of skin dis, eases, palsy epilepsy and other affections of the nervous system, the dose being from 1/4 to 1/2 a dirhem. Externally they apply it to cold swellings. When too large a quantity has been taken oily and mucilaginous remedies should be prescribed. 2 dirhem, s is considered a poisonous dose. Some persons are much more readily affected by the drug than others. Garcia d`Orta remarks that the poisonous properties of the marking nut have been much exaggerated by Serapion, and goes on to say that in Goa it is ad, ministered internally in asthma after having been steeped in butter milk, and is also given as a vermifuge, and moreover, says he, we (the Portuguese) salt the young green fruit and use them like olives. Ainslie gives the following account of its use inS, .India. The Hindus give the juice as scrofulous, venereal and leprous affections in very small doses. An oil is also prepared with the nut by boiling which is used externally in rheumatism and sprains; it is of a very stimulating nature. Undiluted itac, ts as a blister, The Telingoes have the following prescription; Juice of marking nut and garlic of each one ounce, juice of fresh tamarind leaves, cocoa nut oil, and sugar, of each two ounces; mix and boil for a few minutes. Dose one table spoonful twic, e daily in syphilis, aches, sprains, etc. Mixed with a little quicklime and water the juice is used all over India for marking linen and is far more durable than the marking inks of Europe. In the Pharm of India, the exaggerated notions of its injurious, properties were revived. The marking nut is well described by the Arabs as resembling the heart of an animal, the torus representing the auricles and the fruit the ventricles. In the dry commercial article the torus is seldom present and the fruit i, s of the size and shape of a broad bean, of a black colour and quite hard and dry externally, but upon breaking the outer skin with a knife the central cellular portion of the pericarp will be found full of a black oily acrid juice; inside the pericarpisa, thin shell, conformed to it, and containing a large flat kernel, which has no acrid properties. Commerce - Marking nuts come from various parts of the country Value 3/4 R per Surat maund of 37 1/2 lbs. Dymock from the Pharm Journ.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APreviously part of, Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1 1997- Spring 2016 | ||||