Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62735 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 49.01 RHAMNACEAE Zizyphus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 22 C 3 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: History, Uses etc - This is the jujube of Arabic and Persian works on materia medica and is not produced in India, but is largely imported in a dry state both from the Persian Gulf and China. Meer Mahomed Hussain describes it as the fruitof, a well known tree of nearly the same size as the Kunar (Z.jujuba) and olive; but having leaves a little thicker and longer than those of the kunar, with one downy side. The bark, wood, and fruit of the tree are red. The best fruit comes from Jurjan, Chin, a, and Nepal. It should be sweet and moderately astringent about the size of a dried date, and with a small stone. He gives a long account of the medicinally values of the jujube, from which we gather that he regards it as a supperative, expectorant, and, purifier of the blood ; its uses would appear to be in many respects similar to those of dried prunes with us. The bark of the tree is used to clean wounds and sores, the gum in certain affections of the eyes, and the leaves when chewed are said to destr, oy the power of the tongue to appreciate the taste of rather disagreeable medicines. In Western India we have several cultivated varieties of jujuba which afford edible fruit, as well as a wild variety. None of these are considered medicinal but their bar, k is powerfully astringent, and a kind of lac known as Bhooree lac is found upon the branches. The fruit of the wild kind is dried and powdered. This powder is called in Hindu Ber-choonee. According to Ainslie the root is prescribed in decoction by the Vy, tians in conjunction with warm seeds, as a drink in certain cases of fever. The white pear shaped fruit are Z.rugosa (toorum Bom.) is eaten by the natives. The fruit of Z.xylopyra (Gootee, Bom) is used by shoe makers for blacking leather and making blacki, ng. | ||||