. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . dry, brittle, odourless,very astringent, and slightly bitter fragments, which are brownish (more or lessyellow or reddish), and paler within. The seeds [semina granati) are each sur-rounded by a thin vesicle filled with an acidulous styptic juice. The root [radixgranati) is woody, knotty, hard, heavy, of a yellow colour, and astringent bark [cortex radicis granati) occurs in smallish fragments, of a yellowish orash-gray colour externally, yellow within, brittle, not fibrous; of an astringent,but not bitter taste. By its w
. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . dry, brittle, odourless,very astringent, and slightly bitter fragments, which are brownish (more or lessyellow or reddish), and paler within. The seeds [semina granati) are each sur-rounded by a thin vesicle filled with an acidulous styptic juice. The root [radixgranati) is woody, knotty, hard, heavy, of a yellow colour, and astringent bark [cortex radicis granati) occurs in smallish fragments, of a yellowish orash-gray colour externally, yellow within, brittle, not fibrous; of an astringent,but not bitter taste. By its want of bitterness it may be distinguished from thebark of the box-tree [Buxus sempervirens), which is said to be sometimes substi-tuted for it. Moistened with water, and rubbed on paper, it leaves a yellow stain,which becomes deep-blue by the contact of sulphate of iron. (Guibourt, Hist, desDrog. i. 501.) Composition. — Reuss (Gmelin, Handb. d. Cliem. ii. 1272) examined thewatery extract of the rind of the fruit. The bark of the root has been analyzed 45*. Punica Granatum. 534 ELEMENTS OF 3IATERIA MEDICA. by Wackenroder (op. cit.); in 1824 by Mitouart (Journ. de Pharm. x. 352);and, in 1831, by Latour de Trie*(op. cit. xvii. 503, 001). Watery Extract of PomegranateRind. REUSSS ANALYSIS. Resin 092 Tannin 27/8 Oxidized tannin 1019 Extractive 2176 Gum 34-2(3 Loss 5-09 Extract of the Rind 10000 Dried Bark Bark of the Pomegranate Root. WACKENRODER S ANALYSIS. Rancid fat oil 2 46 Tannin 2192 Starch with some mucilage of lime 2609 Woody fibre with 45-45 Loss 4-08 LATOUR DE TRIES ANALYSIS. Fatty (Mannitc).Kesin (copious).Wax. Chlorophylle.[Insoluble matters]. Bark of the Root. 1. Mannite (Granadin).—The sweet substance which Latour de Trie considered to be pecu-liar, and called granadin, has been satisfactorily shown (Journ. de Pharm. xxi. 169), to be man-nitc (described at p. 382). 2. Tannic Acid.—On this the astringency of the fruit a
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