Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY
Family i. Arace^ or Arum Family.—Perennial herbs with
fleshy rhizomes or corms, and long petioled leaves, containing an acrid
or pungent juice. Flowers crowded on a spadix, which is usually
surrounded by a spathe. Fruit a berry. Seeds with large fleshy
embryo.
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Calamus
Part used
Unpeeled rhizome
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Skunk cabbage Rhizome
Indian turnip Corm
Botanical name
Acorus calamus
Symplocarpus fcetidus
Arisaema triphyllum
Family 2. GraminacejE or Grass Family.—Mostly herbs with
cylindric, hollow jointed stems whose nodes are swollen. The leaves
are alternate, with long split sheaths and a ligule. Flowers generally
hermaphroditic and borne in spikelets making up a spicate inflorescence.
Lowest floral leaves of each spikelet are called glumes, which are empty
and paired. Fruit, a caryopsis or grain. Embryo with scutellum.
Official drug Part used Botanical name
Triticum Rhizome Agropyron repens
Saccharum Refined sugar Saccharum officinarum
and Sorghum sp.?
Maltum Seed, partially germinated Hordeum distichum
and dried
Zea Styles and stigmas Zea mays
Family 3. Palmes or Palm Family.—Tropical or sub-tropical
arborescent plants, having unbranched trunks which are terminated by a
crown of leaves, in the axils of which the flowers are produced. The
leaves are well developed with pinnate or palmate blades and a fibrous
sheathed clasping petiole. Inflorescence lateral with small flowers.
Fruit a berry or drupe.
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