Ingredients used in 'Mooghaat' powder - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 64944 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Glossostemon bruguieri | Entry Book Number | 10.1896 | |
| Artefact Name | Ingredients used in 'Mooghaat' powder | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iraq | TDWG Region | Iraq | ||
| Parts Held | Ingredients used in 'Mooghaat' powder | Geography Description | Iraq | ||
| Uses | Ingredients used in 'Mooghaat' powderUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
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| Donor | Blomfield Rear Admiral | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Ingredients used in the composition of 'Mooghaat' powder, in great repute amongst Moslems and Copts as a medicine for renewing strength of women after childbirth. As sold in the Bazaar, Alexandria RMB. Ingredients - 1. Glossostemon bruguier, i. 2. Corrigiola telephiifolia Pour. 3. Unknown. 4. Curcuma longa L. (turmeric) 5. Tasteless hermadactyls. 6. Portulaca oleracea L.. 7. Prunus sp. and Pot of the 'mooghaat' powder ready for use Label source: Extract from letter dated Port Houn (?) Alexa, ndria 31.12.95 - The moghaat still maintains its ancient repute in this country amongst both Copts and Arabs and its native country (Persia ?) and as the plant of which it is the root appears to be unknown you will be interested in ascertaining them. Impo, rted from Bagdad under the name of Mooghait in great repute amongst Moslems and Copts alike as a medicine for renewing strength of women after childbirth. Its use is evidently extremely ancient and anterior I imagine to the Arab Mousin (?). It appears int, he Bazaars as a white rhizome much resembling the 'Ark helawee' (or Laponaria root) but has no botanical relation to it whatever I imagine. The root is powdered and mixed with other ingredients incliuding 'hameera' (leuven) and 'Damn' (native butter known, as India or ghee) a bowl of this mixture is administered hot every morning to the patient for six weeks after the birth of a child. Rear Admiral Blomfield | ||||
| Determinations: | NONE Corrigiola telephiifolia Pour. 23.01 PORTULACACEAE Portulaca oleracea L. 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Glossostemon bruguieri Desf. 58.01 ROSACEAE Prunus sp. 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Curcuma longa L. | ||||