Pharmacographia indica : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in British India / by William Dymock, C.J.H. Warden, and David Hooper.
- William Dymock
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pharmacographia indica : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in British India / by William Dymock, C.J.H. Warden, and David Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Description. —Climbing, all softly silky; leaves small, on longish petioles, simple or tornately divided, elliptic ovate or cordate, 3-nerved. Panicle many flowered ; lower bracts leafy, flowers ] \ to 2 inches diam., white, appear in September j sepals 4 to 6, membranous, oblong, silky outside; filaments narrow, linear, glabrous. Many other species of Clematis grow in the temperate Himalaya, but do not appear to be used medicinally. ACT^EA SPICATA, Linn,, Eng. Bot. 13, 918. Baneberry {Eng.), Racine de Saint Christophe'(/<>.). Grows in the temperate Himalaya from Bhotan to Hazara ; it is also a European plant, and a variety with red berries is well known in America. It does not appear to be known as a medicinal plant to the Hindus; its chemical constitution is the same as that of Cimifuga racemofta. (See next article.) It is probably the Aetata of Pliny, 27, 26. CIMIFUGA FCETIDA, Linn., Lam. III. 437. Bugbane {Eng.), Cimicaire (Ft,). Is a native of the temperate Himalaya from Bhotan to.. Cashmere; it also occurs in Europe and Siberia. We have no knowledge of its use by the Hindus. In America C. racemosa, Elliot, (Actcea racemosa, Linn.), Black Cohosh, is used medicinally and is a depressant of the nervous and vascular systems, causing giddiness, nervous tremour, depression of pulse, nausea, and increased pulmonary and cutaneous secre- 'tion; in excessive doses it is an irritant emeto-cathartic and often causes violeut delirium. The plant affords a crystalline neutral principle slightly soluble in ether and'water, freely so in chloroform and alcohol. The latter solution has a pungent acrid taste. C.fcetida has not been examined. The medicinal plants of minor importance belonging to the Ranunculacca and known in India are the following:— Anemone obtusiloba, Dun., Roy k III. 52, t. 11,-f. 1, is a native of the temperate and Alpine Himalaya, the root of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20385523_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
