Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63960 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 39.01 RUTACEAE Paramignya monophylla | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 29 A 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Dymock Drx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: This scandent, prickly shrub bears a pulpy four celled fruit, the size of a small apple. The root is medicinal, it is long and woody. The pieces selected for use are about as thick as the finger, and covered with a somewhat scabrous brown b, ark which has a bitter saltish taste. If allowed to remain for some time in the mouth, the salt taste becomes much more decided. Sections of the bark placed under a microscope show from 10 to 12 rings, composed of bundles of liber cells closely set and en, cased in an armour of crystalline cubes, which from the taste of the bark are doubtless chloride of sodium. A somewhat similar arrangment of cubes may be seen in several other barks but in none of those which I have examined is nearly so marked as in this, . Karwa Wagutty is considered to have alterative properties, which must not be confounded with Wagutty (Caparis brevispina). | ||||