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Catalogue Number: 64885
No Image	Plant Name	33.01 TILIACEAE Corchorus olitorius	Entry Book Number
	Artefact Name	Seed	Vernacular Name
	Iso Country	India	TDWG Region	India
	Parts Held	Seed	Geography Description	India
	Uses	SeedUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man	TDWG use	MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders
	Storage	Bottles, boxes etc	Related Items
	Donor	Pharm Soc GB	Donor No	23 C 8
	Donor Date		Donor Notes	India Museum 1880x0Dx0A
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	Notes:	Label source: A further examination of the seeds was made exhausting them with rectified benzene, and water acidulated with hydrochloric acid. The benzene was a pale yellow and upon evaporation yielded a rich reddish brown oil having no marked odour and, a nauseous taste. The tincture made with rectified spirit was deep red, like tinct. lavandulae comp, very opaque and highly fluorescent. In native works on materia medica Hurmal is described as an alterative and purifying medicine in atrabilis, and als, o in diseases supposed to arise from cold humours, such as palsy, lumbago, etc. it is also said to stimulate the sexual system both in the male and female, increasing the flow of milk and menses in the latter. For administration a concentrated decoction, is mixed with the sweet oil and honey, or the crushed seeds are boiled in wine down to one fourth of the original bulk of the latter, and the mixture is strained. Vida ' Makhzan al Adwiya' article.