A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . ), and otherwise ; White Pareira Brava, from Ahutarufescens, Aublet; Yellow Pareira Brava, from, it is supposed,Abuta a//iara, Aublet; and the Common False Pareira Brava,the exact botanical source of which is unknown, althoughcertainly from a plant of the same order as the true latter spurious root had at one time almost entirelysuperseded the original and true drug : but it is readilydistinguished by its outer surface bei
A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . ), and otherwise ; White Pareira Brava, from Ahutarufescens, Aublet; Yellow Pareira Brava, from, it is supposed,Abuta a//iara, Aublet; and the Common False Pareira Brava,the exact botanical source of which is unknown, althoughcertainly from a plant of the same order as the true latter spurious root had at one time almost entirelysuperseded the original and true drug : but it is readilydistinguished by its outer surface being of a lighter browncolour; by cutting distinctly fibrous hke wood generally,instead of like wax ; by its rings being commonly veryeccentrically arranged {fig. 8), and of different structure;and by the action of iodine, for whereas a cool decoction ofthe spurious drug is not perceptibly coloured by solutionof iodine, that of the true root is turned by it of an inkybluish-black colour. .ifen ispcr>iiax:Ci r. ] Pareine Radix. 27 Medicinal Properties.—Pareira root possesses mild tonicand diuretic properties, and is stated to exercise an almost ^^^^%i^^^-. Fig. 8.—Transverse section ot False Pareira Root. From an undeterminedMenispermaceous plant. (After Hanbury.) specific influence over the mucous membrane of the genito-urinary organs. Official Preparations. Decoctum Pareira3. [ Extractum Pareira^ Li(iuidum. 2. JATEORHIZA CALTJMBA, Columbo. Synonym.—Cocculus palmatus, DC, (Bentley and Trimens Medicinal Plants, vol. i. plate 13.) Habitat.—Eastern tropical Africa, and especially alongthe course of the Lower Zambesi. Official Part and Name.— Radix :—the driedtransversely cut slices of the root. 28 CahnnbcB Radix. irhaiavujjonc. Calumbse Eadix. Calumba Root. Collection and Commerce.—From the forests of EasternAfrica, between Ibo and the banks of the Zambesi. It iseither shipped directly from Mozambique and Zanzibar, orit is o
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