Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63134 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 43.01 MELIACEAE Naregamia alata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India, Goa | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 27 D 9 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This is the country Ipecacuanha or trifolia of the Portuguese at Goa. It is a small woody shrub, seldom more than 6 to 8 inches high, consisting of several slender stems sparingly branched rising from a spreading root stock, which is conto, rted knotty and warty. The leaves are alternate mostly situated at the ends of the branches and consist of a narrow winged petiole 1 inch long, at the end of which are articulated three small cuneate obovate leaflets. The ends of the shoots and buds are, seen under the microscope to be thickly covered with white simple hairs; the petiole and leaflets are nearly free from them. The flowers are large and white on axillary peduncles; the capsules three angled and three valved. The drug consists of the cree, ping root with the small stems attached the leaves having been stripped off. A section of the root examined microscopically presents a tolerably thick dry suberous layer of a brown colour immediately within this the parenchyma, which is composed of thin, walled cells and is much loaded with a yellowish oil. In the inner portion of the bark the cells contain starch, the wood is very hard and of a greenish yellow colour. The drug has a somewhat pungent aromatic odour but hardly any taste; it is given as, an emetic in doses of from 12 to 18 grains. Trifolia is abundant in the Southern Concon and Goa territory on the banks of Nullahs. | ||||