Sassafras oil - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76946 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 143.01 LAURACEAE Sassafras albidum | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Sassafras oil | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Sassafras oil | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Sassafras oilUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Essential Oil Cabinet | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 462g | ||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | The entry for Sassafras officinale in the 1878 published catalogue of the Pharmaceutical Society Museum collection states: 'In this country the root is official; but in America, the root bark and the pith are official; the bark is much more fragrant than, the woody portion. The pith is used in the proportion of two drachms to a pint of water to form a demulcent drink for catarrh and other affections of the mucous membrane, and also as a local application in ophthalmia. The pith is obtained from the young b, ranches. See Amer. Dispens., p. 475. For examination of root, see P.J. [1], vol. v., p. 426. For micr. structure, P.J. [3], vol. iii., p. 181. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 220.' | ||||
| Determinations: | 143.01 LAURACEAE Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees 143.01 LAURACEAE Sassafras officinale Nees | ||||