Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65204 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Helicteres isora | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 23 C 2 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: History and uses - This is a tall shrub or small tree much resembling the common hazel; the flowers which are bright red and showy appear in the rains. In Sanskrit it is called 'Avartani'. The peculiar twisted form of the carpels has probab, ly led to its use as medicine according to the ancient Doctrine of Signatures. Ainslie notices its use by the Hindus as a remedy for offensive sores inside the ears. At the present time it enters into most prescriptions, for the cure of griping in the bow, els & flatulence especially in the case of children. Its chief virtue seems to be its harmlessness. Description - The fruit consists of five slender angular carpels twisted like a corkscrew and together forming a cone about 1.5 to 2 inches long. The carpe, ls are pubescent and of a greenish brown colour; they contain a single row of dark brown angular seeds. The internal surface is of a light greenish hue and highly polished, taste mucilaginous. Medicinally we may consider this drug to be simply demulcent., Commerce - It is kept in all druggists' shops and as a domestic remedy is perhaps one of the best known articles in the Hindu Materia Medica. Value Rs. 3. 5 per Sur.... pound ...1/2 lbs (part missing) | ||||