Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog

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forming a sheath above the swollen joints of the stem; flowers, small
and with a two- to six-parted perianth; fruit, an angled akene.
Official drug Part used Botanical name
Rheum officinale
Rheum Rhizome Rheum palmatimi and
the variety tanguticum
Unofficial
Rumex Root Rumex crispus
Family io. Phytolaccace^.—A family of apetalous trees, shrubs,
or woody herbs—the pokeweed family—with alternate entire leaves
and flowers resembling those of the goosefoot family {Chenopodiacem) ,
but differing in having the several-celled ovary composed of carpels
united in a ring, and forming a berry in fruit. It embraces 21 genera,
and 55 species, tropical and sub-tropical.
Official drug Part used Botanical name
Phytolacca Root Phytolacca decandra
Family ii. Chenopodiacem.—A family of more or less succulent
apetalous annual or perennial herbs—the goosefoot family—with
usually alternate exstipulate leaves and minute greenish flowers. It
embraces about 80 genera and over 500 species, among them being
several garden vegetables and a number of weeds.
Official drug ' Part used Botanical name
Oleum Chenopodii Volatile oU Chenopodium anthelminticum
Saccharum Refined sugar Beta vulgaris
Family 12. Auistolochiacem.—A small family of apetalous
plants—the birthwort family—chiefly climbers or twiners and tropical,
with irregular, dingy, often offensively smelling flowers. There are
five genera and about 200 species.
Official drug Part used Botanical name
„, . , f Aristolochia serpentaria
Serpentana Rhizome and roots W -.- ^
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\ Aristolochia reticulata
Unofficial
Asarum Rhizome and roots Asarum canadensis
Family 13. IJLMACEiE or Elm Family.—Forest trees indigenous
to the temperate and tropical zones, characterized by being woody
plants, with pinnately veined leaves and caducous stipules and without