Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62701 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 49.01 RHAMNACEAE Discaria sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Brazil | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 28 F 1 | ||
| Donor Date | 05/02/1937 | Donor Notes | Foster CW, Sao Paulo Railway Cox0Dx0A | ||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Natives state that people using it experience a sensation of tremendous vigour and well being. According to a local laboratory this root possesses great reconstitutional powers, chiefly as regards the brain, and with direct action also, on the spinal column. 2 or 3 roots should be placed in a litre of pinga (strong alcoholic native drink from cane juice) and allowed to stand until it takes on the colour of port wine, when it is ready for use. A wine glass full is taken before lunch an, d dinner. After about ten days one begins to feel the effects. I know an old gent of 72 who, after trying it was able to resume marital relations, and as I have said, several friends who have tried it have been well satisfied with its properties. The b, ark of this root contains a very large amount of cluster crystals of Ca O? The bark of D longispina contains much starch and only scattered clusters of Ca Ox. The general structure of the 2 roots is similar. TEW. The root is apparently from a sp of Dis, caria, family Rhamnaceae. This sp is uncertain, but it is near D longispina. From CW Foster, Sao Paulo Railway Co, Estacao do Luz, Sao Paulo 5/2/37. Through Dr Burn and Sir W Wilcox. | ||||